James Curtis Jenkins was born in 1943. After enlisting in the United States Navy he won a place at the Medical Technology School that was part of Bethesda Naval Hospital, where John F. Kennedy's body was taken the day of his assassination. Along with fellow students, he was asked to assist in the autopsy of Kennedy. William Law's decades of research on the Kennedy assassination has appeared in more than 30 books, including Douglas Horne's Inside the Assassination Records Review Board. He has written, produced, directed, or consulted on documentaries and films like RFK, The Gathering, and Killing Kennedy.