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Bethesda Autopsy Hospital Selection

United States · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1963

Jacqueline Lee Kennedy22 November 1963

Bethesda · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Jacqueline Kennedy chose the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda for the autopsy because President Kennedy had served in the Navy.

Names involved

Jacqueline Lee Kennedy

Provenance

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