Dr. Humes said, "No significant aspect of the autopsy was left unphotographed."

"In 1963, we proved at the autopsy table that President Kennedy was struck from above and behind by the fatal shot," Dr. Humes said, adding, "I am tired of being beaten upon by people who are supremely ignorant of the scientific facts of the President's death."

The autopsy results have been independently confirmed several times.

The two pathologists and many other medical experts agree that some of the questions raised about the assassination would have been avoided had the autopsy taken place in Dallas, as required by Texas law. No autopsy was performed there, the journal articles say, because security officials were anxious to get the new President back to the safety of Washington and Mr. Johnson refused to leave Dallas without Mrs. Kennedy and she refused to leave her husband's body behind. New Sources of Questions

The interviews follow a new wave of conspiracy charges raised by Oliver Stone's movie "J.F.K." and a book, 'J.F.K. Conspiracy of Silence" (Signet, 1992), by Dr. Charles A. Crenshaw, who was a junior member of the medical team that tried to save Kennedy's life at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

Among Dr. Crenshaw's charges is that the bullets struck Kennedy from the front, that Kennedy's wounds were altered between the time his body left the hospital in Dallas and the autopsy in Bethesda, and that his body was received in Bethesda in a body bag, not a coffin.

While the two pathologists have been criticized as lacking experience in gunshot wounds, they rebutted these and other charges in the journal articles, saying that in their Navy service they had autopsied people who had died from gunshot wounds.

But a spokeswoman for Dr. Crenshaw's publisher said the doctor stood by his account. Referring to the journal articles, she said: "It's the old party line. The American public is still being manipulated." 'No Body Bag Anywhere'

The pathologists said they were not aware of Dr. Crenshaw's book at the time of their interviews. Speaking to Dr. Crenshaw's assertion that Kennedy's body arrived in a bag, Dr. Humes said that he and Dr. Boswell lifted the body from the coffin directly onto the examining table. The body was nude and swaddled in sheets, he said, and Kennedy's head, brutally wounded, was wrapped with gauze and bandages.