Two questions that nag me.

[David Josephs]

Of the navy personnel at the Bethesda morgue, who actually saw the body removed from the shipping casket and then removed from the body bag and placed on the examining table? Also where were the FBI agents when the body was placed back into the ceremonial coffin and loaded back into the hearse for the official entry with the color guard. Were they on a coffee break during that interval between 7:15 and 8:00 PM? Or did they see the whole thing and lie about it as well?

I'd suggest you google "Doug Horne IARRB part IV" or his blog... AND get a copy of BEST EVIDENCE.
I was just this morning reading thru Horne's book - Part IV covers Bethesda and the Zapruder film... a MUST BUY imo if you are at all interested in those subjects.

Google is your friend Gordon... a few taps of the keyboard and the info you seek is easily found...

Attached are two reports... one of the original entry of the shiopping casket at 6:35
the second the OFFICIAL entry of the casket at 8pm...
Other than the men inside the morgue, between these two times, only Greer, Kellerman and the 2 FBI agents are in and around the morgue... and as we finally learn, the FBI agents were CYA during the time Humes and Boswell drastically altered the wounds on JFK.


http://www.manuscriptservice.com/JWS-FXO/
Law: So, that's how long you were in the cooler room or the anteroom?
Sibert: Maybe out in the hall.
Law: Out in the hall?
Sibert: Yes, we were excluded from where they were working. We had no idea what was going onX-rays or nothin'.

Conway: Were they in the anteroom when they unwrapped him, or when they brought him into the main
Sibert: I couldn't say for sure.
…
Law: …[Y]ou don't remember whether they took the body out at that point
Sibert: I would think, I don't know, this is just reasoning, but they had corpsmen that were carrying, you know, lifting him out of the casket onto the autopsy table and I can'tbecause I was talking with O'Neill. When I saw what we were up against there, I said, "We've got to get the names of everybody in this autopsy room…"

CONCLUSION
Why did SAs
Sibert and O'Neill produce a narrative to convey the impression that they were
absent from the morgue for only 15 minutes? We suggest that their objective was
to reassure their superiors thatfor reasons beyond their controlthe body was
out of their sight for just 15 minutes after it had been removed from the Dallas
casket and was on the autopsy table. Thus, they would be excused for a minor
infraction in carrying out their responsibility to maintain an unbroken
chain-of-custody of the president's body. They needed to hide the fact that they
had lost contact with it for about 45 minutes, 7:17 to after 8:00 PM.