A fine and pretty piece of lying and hypocrisy

An investigation into the circumstances of the accident never resulted in a public explanation of how the mixing tank became filled with such a high concentration of plutonium—initially the blame was placed on Kelley himself. The US government had been waiting for an accident like this to happen so that theories about the progression of radiation poisoning and the eventual distribution of radioactive plutonium in a human could be examined (although Kelley had neither ingested nor inhaled any plutonium during the accident, he, like many laboratory technicians at Los Alamos, had been exposed to minute particles of airborne plutonium over the course of several years). An event such as this was therefore considered an "experiment of opportunity:"[3] Careful records were kept of every moment of Kelley's life from accident through death and onto the autopsy table. His organs were ground up and their plutonium levels analyzed. The results of these tissue analyses were considered fundamental to understanding what would happen to a population during a nuclear attack and impossible to obtain any other way. Although the bone marrow biopsy of Kelley's sternum was performed under the premise that the physicians wished to determine if he were a candidate for a bone marrow transplant, Kelley's death was of such certainty that an actual transplant was never seriously considered.[3]
[edit] Court case

In 1996, Doris E. Kelley and Mareau Katie Kelley, relatives of Cecil Kelley, filed a lawsuit against Dr. Clarence Lushbaugh, the pathologist who performed the autopsy on Cecil Kelley.[7][8] The case alleged the misconduct of doctors, the hospital, and the administration of Los Alamos in removing organs from the deceased without consent from next-of-kin over a span of many years (1958–1980).[9][10] Kelley's autopsy was the first instance of this type of post-mortem analysis, but there were many more performed by Dr. Lushbaugh and others in later years at Los Alamos.[8] During a deposition for the case, Dr. Lushbaugh, when asked who gave him the authority to take 8 pounds of organs and tissue from Kelley's body, said, "God gave me permission." The class action suit was settled by the defendants for about $9.5 million in 2002 and an additional $800,000 in 2007.