Richard Lindenberg was a physician and pathologist, a Luftwaffe Captain during World War II, later Chief Neuropathologist of the State of Maryland.
10 Facts About Richard Lindenberg
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Richard Lindenberg testified before the Rockefeller Commission on the death of President John F Kennedy.
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In 1947 Richard Lindenberg became an Operation Paperclip scientist, a term applied to German scientists who came to the United States after World War II under a contract with the War Department.
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Richard Lindenberg's family remained in Germany, supported by the US government, as agreed upon in the Paperclip contract.
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Richard Lindenberg returned to the US as research neuropathologist at the Army Chemical Center in Edgewood, Maryland.
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Richard Lindenberg was certified in neuropathology in 1956 by the American Board of Pathology.
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Richard Lindenberg published more than sixty scientific articles, six textbook chapters, and a book in collaboration with Dr Frank B Walsh, neuro-ophthalmologist at the Wilmer Eye Institute of Johns Hopkins University.
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Richard Lindenberg confirmed the official Warren Commission Report of President Kennedy's death, that a single bullet had struck Kennedy and Governor John Connally.
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Richard Lindenberg was married to Ella Wilhelmine Freytag, his assistant and collaborator, born in Hamburg, Germany.
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Richard Lindenberg retired in April 1976 and died in Baltimore on February 1,1992.