Straight Talk from the FBI Agent at JFK's Autopsy

James Sibert was a WWII hero who saw the president's wounds and rejected the official story of a lone gunman

James Sibert was one of two FBI agents who attended the autopsy of President John F. Kennedy at the Bethesda Naval Hospital on the night of Nov. 22, 1963.

As one of the most important witnesses in the JFK assassination story, Sibert was guarded all his life about what he saw of the gunshot wounds that ended the life of the 35th president. Director J. Edgar Hoover made clear he wanted no questioning of the government’s “lone gunman” theory, and if Sibert crossed Hoover, his career was over.

But Sibert was a meticulous agent who had attended several hundred autopsies. So when Kennedy’s body was brought out for examination by pathologists at Bethesda Naval Hospital (with a gallery full of unidentified generals and admirals looking on), he and fellow agent Francis O’Neill described what they saw in an official report, now available on the excellent British site, 22 November 1963.