Rose entered the trauma room where Kennedy's body lay and was confronted by Secret Service agent Roy Kellerman and Kennedy's personal physician George Burkley, who said that there was no time to perform an autopsy because Jacqueline Kennedy would not leave Dallas without her husband's body which was to be delivered promptly to the airport.
Rose entered the trauma room where President Kennedy lay and was confronted by Secret Service agent Roy Kellerman and his physician, George Burkley. They informed her that an autopsy couldn't be performed immediately because Jacqueline Kennedy insisted on taking her husband's body to the airport for immediate transport.