Captain John Henry Ebersole, M.D., United States Navy Medical Corps was a pioneer in submarine medicine and radiation oncology, selected by Admiral Hyman G. Rickover to serve as medical officer aboard the US Navy's first two nuclear powered submarines, the USS Nautilus and the USS Seawolf. He was the radiologist for NASA that screened the Mercury Seven astronauts for Project Mercury. Ebersole was the radiologist responsible for the x-rays taken during the autopsy of John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1963 at Bethesda Naval Medical Center.
John H. Ebersole
Ebersole aboard the Seawolf.
Autopsy of John F. Kennedy
The autopsy of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was performed at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. The autopsy began at about 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on November 22, 1963—the day of Kennedy's assassination—and ended in the early morning of November 23, 1963. The choice of autopsy hospital in the Washington, D.C. area was made by his widow, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, who chose the Bethesda as President Kennedy had been a naval officer during World War II.
The former president's autopsy was conducted at Bethesda Naval Hospital (pictured 1977) near Washington, D.C.. It is now known as the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
The President's limousine brought his body to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. It is pictured parked in the ambulance entrance.
General Godfrey McHugh ordered Kennedy's body to be illegally transported to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, before the choice of hospital was given to Jacqueline Kennedy.
The missing bullet—found on a used stretcher at Parkland Memorial Hospital—became the subject of the Warren Commission's single-bullet theory, often derided as the "magic-bullet theory" by conspiracy theorists.
