The Chairman.

Colonel FINCK. I do.

The Chairman.

Will you be seated, please, Colonel?

Mr. Specter.

Would you state your full name for the record, please?
Colonel FINCK. My first name is Pierre. My middle initial is "A". My last name is Finck.

Mr. Specter.

What is your profession, sir?
Colonel FINCK. I am a physician.

Mr. Specter.

And by whom are you employed?
Colonel FINCK. By the United States Army.

Mr. Specter.

And what is your rank?
Colonel FINCK. I am a lieutenant colonel in the Medical Corps.

Mr. Specter.

Where did you obtain your medical degree?
Colonel FINCK. At the University of Geneva Medical School in Switzerland.

Mr. Specter.

And in what year did you obtain that degree?
Colonel FINCK. In 1948.

Mr. Specter.

What has your experience been in the medical profession subsequent to obtaining that degree?
Colonel FINCK. I had 4 years of training in pathology after my internship, 2 years, including 2 years of pathology

at the University Institute of Pathology in Geneva, Switzerland, and 2 years at the University of Tennessee Institute of Pathology in Memphis, Tenn.

Mr. Specter.

And how long have you been in the United States Army?
Colonel FINCK. Since 1955.

Mr. Specter.

And what have your duties consisted of in the Army?
Colonel FINCK. From 1955 to 1958 I performed approximately 200 autopsies, many of them pertaining to trauma including missile wounds, stationed at Frankfort, Germany as pathologist of the. United States Army Hospital in Frankfurt, Germany.

Mr. Specter.

Have you had any additional, special training or experience in missile wounds?
Colonel FINCK. For the past 3 years I was Chief of the Wound Ballistics Pathology Branch of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and in that capacity I reviewed personally all the cases forwarded to us by the Armed Forces, and some civilian cases from the United States and our forces overseas. The number of these cases amounts to approximately 400 cases. I was called as a consultant in the field of missile wounds for this particular case, and also last year in February 1963, the Surgeon General of the Army sent me to Vietnam for a wound ballistics mission, I had to testify in a murder trial involving a 30/30 rifle in the first week of March this year, and I came back yesterday after one week in Panama where I had to testify. I was sent to Panama by the Secretary of

the Army regarding the fatalities of the events of 9-10 in January of 1964.

Mr. Specter.

Have you been certified by the American Board of Pathology, Doctor Finck?
Colonel FINCK. I was certified in pathology anatomy by the American Board of Pathology in 1956, and by the same American Board of Pathology in the field of forensic pathology in 1961.

Mr. Specter.

Would you describe briefly for the Commission what forensic pathology involves?
Colonel FINCK. Forensic pathology is the study with the naked eye and with the microscope of injuries, including missile wounds, trauma in general. In summary, it is the part of pathology in relation to the law, violent death being homicide, be it suicide, accidental or undetermined. It also includes unexplained deaths, sudden deaths, and poisoning.

Mr. Specter.

Did you have occasion to participate in the autopsy of the late President Kennedy?
Colonel FINCK. Yes; I did.

Mr. Specter.

And are you one of the three coauthors of the autopsy report which has been previously marked and introduced into evidence here?
Colonel FINCK. Yes, I am.