Age 22. Of Fort Bragg, NC. Born 10/11/1920, El Paso, TX. Died of burns (death certificate). Harvard University pre-medical senior (residing at 5 Adams House). Known as "Jim" (or "Jimmie"). Seated in a Melody Lounge foursome with blind date Miss Anne McArdle, age 18 (Born 3/28/1924. Died as Anne S. Hintlian on 5/15/2004, age 80. Last residence Lawrence, MA), of Lawrence, MA, escaped, also Harvard senior Nathan Greer, age 20 (Born 1/19/1922. Died 7/20/1998, age 76. Last residence Santa Fe, NM), of Santa Fe, NM, escaped, and the latter's girlfriend, Miss Kathleen O'Neil, age 17, of Brookline, MA, dead. "His body was found in the ruins" (Boston Evening American, 11/30/1942). Remains were identified at Waterman's Funeral Home in Boston by Harvard roommate Ray B. Holtan (not present) at 7 a.m. on Sunday morning. Military family based in North Carolina was notified of his death by a Harvard dean over the telephone. Was single. Raised in Highland Park, TX, and Weston, MA. Was a graduate of Weston High School in 1937. Attended the University of Hawaii for three years until classes were suspended upon the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Captain-elect of the Harvard tennis team. Attached to the U.S. Army Reserve Corps, was not active. One of 20 names chosen by the Commonwealth as representative victims at the spring 1943 Grove manslaughter trials of club owner Barnett "Barney" Welansky, age 45 (not present due to illness), his brother James, age 46, and wine steward Jacob "Jack" Goldfine, age 47 (the latter two found not guilty of all charges). Was the inspiration for the 2016 stage production, "Inferno: Fire at the Cocoanut Grove 1942," written and directed by Texas native James Hansen Prince, whose wife's grandmother was an aunt of Mr. Jenkins (Mr. Prince to The Boston Globe, 2/21/2016: "I don't know why a guy from Texas has to do a seminal Boston story..."). Modest build (WWII draft registration, February '42: 5' 8," 140 lbs.). Parents Lieut. Col. Walter E., Sr., U.S. Army, and Mrs. Sarah C. (Cook) Jenkins, residing at Fort Bragg, NC. Brownsville Herald, Brownsville, TX, 11/30/1942: "His body is being forwarded here, and burial will be...at a date to be set later." Burial at Brownsville City Cemetery, Brownsville, TX. Middle name Benjamin.

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