In my recent YouTube documentary titled "The Three Bethesda Casket Entries, Revisited," I featured the story of a Bethesda nurse (a Navy Ensign, or O-1) who witnessed "a simple casket offloaded from a helicopter by men in trench coats" at or near Bethesda Naval Hospital the night of JFK's autopsy; she had been informed that the helicopter would be delivering the body of President Kennedy to Bethesda NNMC that night.  (The story of the Bethesda nurse had been written about in 1992 by New England journalist Robert "Woody" Woodland.)  Here is a link to that documentary, for those who may not have seen it yet.

The "Bethesda Nurse" as depicted in "The Three Bethesda Casket Entries"

Thanks to an obituary published in 2023 by the nurse's family, the name of the former Navy nurse interviewed by Woody Woodland in 1992 was revealed as Patricia Krueger.  Here is the link to the obituary.

As you can see, Patricia Krueger led a varied, interesting, and impressive life.

But Patricia Krueger was not her name in 1963—rather, this was her name by her third marriage.  Patricia Krueger's maiden name was Patricia Pepe; in 1963 she graduated from Georgetown University with a B.S. in Nursing, and was accepted into a Navy nursing program at the Bethesda National Naval Medical Center.  In September of 1963, Patricia married John DeSando, so on the night of President Kennedy's autopsy her name would have been Patricia DeSando.

With the help of Dr. Mike Chesser, I was able to locate and contact Patricia's ex-husband John DeSando, and he sent me this snapshot taken in 1963 or 1964 of Patricia DeSando in her Navy uniform, provided by her eldest daughter, Courtney.

Patricia DeSando in 1963, courtesy of her eldest daughter Courtney

The next day—on July 28, 2025—I had a captivating hour-and-a-half conversation with Patricia's eldest daughter, Courtney, who was very gracious and willing to share with me what she could remember about her mother's recounting about the events she witnessed at Bethesda on 11/22/63.  In short, Courtney told me that her mother publicly related her story about "two bodies" at Bethesda to numerous guests (up to as many as "60 or 70" people) at a New Hampshire wedding rehearsal on a Friday night in March of 1992.  In short, Courtney explained that the "two bodies" her mother discussed were JFK's body entering the Bethesda Naval Hospital morgue at two different times the night of the autopsy, and apparently in a different condition later in the evening than he was in, earlier that evening.