HSCA Record Number 180-10101-10256  Agency File Number 013315
     Originator-HSCA
     From:     John H. Stover
     To:
     Date:     11/28/78
     Subjects: Stover, John H.
               JFK autopsy
     
     Contents: Outside Contact Report by Mark Flanagan, HSCA
               investigator, with Capt. John H. Stover.  Document
               follows in full.













































OUTSIDE CONTACT REPORT
                                                                 
     
                                        DATE  11-20-78  TIME 1:30

I.   Identifying Information:

     Name   Dr. John Stover             Telephone  (207) 439-4076

     Address  Kittery, Maine                                     

     Type of Contact:    X   Telephone
                        Person

II.  Summary of Contact:

     (1)  does not recall how and when physical material went to White House; Admiral Burkley had        control over the materials, "all material to be in his custody" (Burkley's)

     (2)  not aware of any order of limitation of any kind

     (3)  cannot recall the order that Admiral Galloway gave to perform a complete autopsy

III. Recommended Follow-up (if any):

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Signature:   /s/ Mark Flanagan





























HSCA Record Number 180-10102-10407  Agency File Number 013615
     Originator-HSCA
     From:     Captain John H. Stover
     To:       
     Date:     5/11/78
     Pages:    3
     Subjects: John H. Stover
               Medical Evidence
               JFK autopsy

     Release date:  10/6/93

     Contents: Outside Contact Report by HSCA investigator Mark
               Flanagan with Capt. John Stover.  Document follows
               in full.









































KENNEDY

OUTSIDE CONTACT REPORT
                                                                 
                               DATE  5/11/78  TIME 12:05P

I.   Identifying Information:

     Name:  Captain John H. Stover      Telephone 207 439 4076   
     
     Address  Kittery, Maine                                     


     Type of Contact:    X   Telephone
                        Person


II.  Summary of Contact:

     1.   I called Captain Stover because he was present at the autopsy of President                     
Kennedy.  Stover was the Commanding Officer of the National Naval Medical School.  The Pathology Department was under the jurisdiction of the school.

     2.   Three doctors performed the autopsy and X-ray personnel were called in; senior officer         also observed the autopsy.

     3.   Stover observed the following defects on the body of the President.  First, a wound on the          top of the head, second, a wound in the upper back; and third, an incision in the neck.

     4.   Stover said the doctors were taking notes.  Stover said the microscopic appearance is what          told the doctors 

III. Recommended Follow-up (if any):

     [blank]

     
     Signature:  Mark Flanagan [typed]  /s/  Mark Flanagan 


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Captain John H. Stover OCR                                    2


          whether a wound was an inshoot or and outshoot wound.

     5.   Stover cannot recall ever seeing an intact missile in the autopsy room.

     6.   Stover said that from the missile track in the upper back that he had the impression that the       bullet had passed through the neck area.

       7.   The brain had to sit in formaldehyde; the abdominal organs would have then   been returned       to the cadaver.  The brain was placed in a stainless steel bucket and placed in the closet of  Admiral Galloway.  The smaller portions of organs were placed in individual jars and then probably placed in the Pathology Department safe.  Stover said the excess tissue is normally incinerated and the slides retained.

     8.   Stover said that he and the doctors were acting under the orders of Admiral Burkley in         regard to the disposition of the autopsy materials.  Stover said that Berkley [sic] was "very  particular about the materials."

     9.   Stover does not know exactly what materials were retained.  He did say that a 7" x 8"          cylinder seems like a rather small container for a brain.

           10. Stover said specimens from an autopsy are normally retained in locked cabinets at         Bethesda and occasionally sent to specialists at AFIP - Walter Reed.

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Captain John H. Stover OCR                                     3

          
    11.   Stover said he seems to remember Bobby Kennedy periodically visiting the autopsy room during   the autopsy and certainly after the body was prepared.

    12.   Stover said the Medical School processed the X-rays but not the film.

    13.   No recollections of whether or not the pathologists examined the adrenal glands.

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