Blumberg collection, 1940s-1970s.

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Blumberg collection, 1940s-1970s.

Includes correspondence, mss., speeches, certificates, photographs, research materials and reports by AFIP staff, records of medical organizations, journals, reprints, and newspaper clippings. Also includes material on John F. Kennedy's assassination, medicine in the Soviet Union, atomic bomb effects in Japan, and the murder trial of Maj. Charles A. Shepard at which staff members including Maj. Virgil H. Cornell and Maj. James E. Ash testified after being involved in the autopsy.

19 cubic ft. (39 boxes)

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Cornell, Virgil H. (Virgil Heath), 1890-1954

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U.S. Army officer, physician, and curator of Army Medical Museum 1933-1935. From the description of Cornell autopsy collection, 1922-1947. (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Association Library). WorldCat record id: 70938896 ...

Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (U.S.)

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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Brookline, Massachusetts. John Kennedy, the second of nine children, attended Choate Academy (1932-1935), Princeton University (1935-36), Harvard College (1936-40), and Stanford Business School (1941). In 1940, he published a book based on his senior thesis entitled "Why England Slept." The book criticized British policy of Appeasement. In 1941, Kennedy enlisted in the Navy. In August 1943, Kenn...

Shepard, Charles A., Major

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Blumberg, Joe, 1909-

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U.S. Army general; physician; and director of Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. From the description of Blumberg collection, 1940s-1970s. (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Association Library). WorldCat record id: 70938873 ...

Ash, James E. (James Earle), 1884-1986

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