First Cryonic Preservation

Date: January 12, 1967 • Location: Washington, United States

Seventy-three-year-old psychology professor James Bedford became the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.

James Hiram Bedford was an American psychology professor at the University of California who wrote several books on occupational counseling. He is the first person whose body was cryopreserved after legal death, and remains preserved at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation.