William Allen Harper
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William Allen Harper was a Texas Christian University medical student who, after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, discovered a large piece of President Kennedy's skull bone in the grass to the left of President Kennedy and 117' forward of his location when he was first shot in the head.
After discovering the "Harper fragment" at 5:30 PM CDT on November 25, 1963, Harper gave the skull piece to his uncle, Jack C. Harper, a medical doctor at the Methodist Hospital in Dallas, who in turn gave the skull piece to A. B. Cairns, the Chief Pathologist at the same hospital. On November 25, Cairns gave the skull piece to FBI Special Agent James W. Anderton and it was then sent to the FBI laboratory in Washington DC. The Harper fragment is not currently locatable within the physical evidence from the assassination.
