ENGLEWOOD, N.J., May 13 John K. Lattimer, prominent urologist, medical specialist and military artifact collector, died last week in a New Jersey hospice at age 92.
The New York Times said Lattimer is credited with helping establish pediatric urology as a discipline and with developing a cure for renal tuberculosis. For 25 years, Lattimer was a professor and chairman of the urology department at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, where he graduated from in 1938. He also represented the United States at the World Health Organization.
After World War II, Lattimer treated top-ranking Nazis during the Nuremburg war crimes trials. He also was an Army doctor who treated hundreds during the Normandy invasion. Later, Lattimer became the first nongovernmental specialist to examine evidence of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A ballistics expert, Lattimer once confirmed that Lee Harvey Oswald had shot the president.
The Times reported on Lattimer's extensive collection of military paraphernalia, which reportedly included drawings by Adolf Hitler and a sword from the 1700s.
John Kingsley Lattimer was born in Mount Clemens, Mich., in 1914, He is survived by his wife, a daughter, two sons and a grandson.
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