Hubert Clark Oral History

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Videotaped oral history interview with Hubert Clark. As a 1963 member of the U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard, Clark served as a pallbearer for President Kennedy. After discovering that his memories of the president's casket at Bethesda Naval Medical Center differed from those of other medical corpsmen involved with the autopsy, he wrote the book, Betrayal: A JFK Honor Guard Speaks (2016). Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on November 20, 2017 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-nine minutes long.

Object Details

Object title:

Hubert Clark Oral History

Date:

11/20/2017

Terms:

Oral histories

Author

Pallbearers

Medical team

Funeral services

Casket

U.S. Navy

Bethesda Naval Hospital

Dallas

Bethesda

Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)

Kennedy Funeral (OHC)

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 49 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2017.001.0111

Curatorial Note:

Mr. Clark passed away on December 1, 2020. In the final years of his life, he appeared at a number of Kennedy assassination research conferences to share his memories as a pallbearer and discuss the controversy surrounding President Kennedy's autopsy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center. Several presentations and panel discussions featuring Mr. Clark may be found on YouTube. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator