Forensic Anthropologist. Clyde Snow is widely considered the most outstanding anthropologist ever to work in the field of forensics. He has admirers within anthropology, the criminal justice system, the victims of crimes against humanity, and the general public. In 2002 Snow famously told The Times, "Witnesses may forget throughout the years, but the dead, those skeletons, they don't forget." He was the chief forensic investigator in atrocities throughout the world, using skeletal remains to extract the secrets of the dead. Among his most outstanding projects were identifying the skeletal remains of the Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele; analyzing the remains of "the Disappeared," who were exhumed from mass graves in Argentina; and testifying at trials investigating genocide, massacres, war crimes, and serial killings in the United States, Iraq, Chile, Guatemala, El Salvador, Kosovo, Bosnia, Rwanda, Ethiopia, and elsewhere. He is widely considered the Father of the Modern Movement for Universal Human Rights through Forensics. He even did analyses of the bodies of the famous, including U. S. President John F. Kennedy and ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen. He also exposed hideous crimes, solved mysteries, brought murderers to justice, and identified victims of disasters. By analyzing the ways people died in plane crashes, he is acknowledged for assisting the commercial aviation industry in redesigning seat restraints and escape systems. While he held a Ph.D. in anthropology, his experience in forensics began as an only child when he accompanied his physician father on trips to accident scenes and morgues. At age 12, he analyzed a pile of bones as the mingled skeletons of a man and a deer. He hypothesized that the man shot the deer and died of a heart attack dragging it away. By examining bones, he could usually figure out the cause of death, sex, age, left or right-handedness, nutritional habits, whether a woman had ever given birth, and much more. And in doing so, he often brought comfort to survivors and justice to victims. The Clyde Snow Social Justice Award was named for him. Snow was married four times, to Mary Kathryn Fleming Snow (1948), Donna Lita Herring Haynes Snow (1955), Sue Rances Anderson Snow (1966), and his widow Jerry Snow.