---
title: "James R. Jude"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "James R. Jude"
aliases: ["James Jude","J. R. Jude"]
first_seen: "2026-07-30T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["chest-compression CPR","William B. Kouwenhoven","CPR history","Am J Cardiol 2003"]
---


Physician, second-listed co-author of Kouwenhoven, Jude & Knickerbocker's
foundational 1960 *JAMA* paper on closed-chest cardiac massage. He matters
to the vault as the third named participant in the CPR-discovery story
alongside Kouwenhoven and Knickerbocker, and as the author of his own 2003
first-person retrospective — "Personal reminiscences of the origin and
history of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)," *Am J Cardiol* 2003;92:
956–963 — which could plausibly settle the mechanism/quantity questions the
vault currently has open on this discovery, but which remains paywalled and
unread as of this session.

## References
- [[claim-chest-compression-cpr-discovered-by-accident]]
- [[claim-jama-1960-cardiac-massage-paper-paginated-1064-1067]]
- Captures: 2026-07-30-read-kouwenhoven-jude-knickerbocker-closed-chest-cardiac-massage