Parkland Memorial Hospital Medical Records for President John F. Kennedy
Medical records from Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas, document the treatment of President John F. Kennedy following his arrival in the Emergency Room at 12:43 p.m. on November 22, 1963. Governor Connally, in the front seat of the same limousine, was taken to room two, while the President was placed in room one. Dr. James Carrico was the first physician to see the President, noting slow, agonal respiratory efforts, a heartbeat without pulse or blood pressure, and two external wounds—a lower anterior neck wound and an occipital skull wound with extruding blood and brain tissue. Additional physicians including Dr. Malcolm Perry, Dr. Charles Baxter, Dr. Ronald Jones, Dr. M. T. Jenkins, Doctors Giesecke and Bunt, Dr. Robert McClelland, Dr. Paul Peters, Dr. Kemp Clark, and Dr. Fouad Bashour participated in the resuscitation effort, which included endotracheal intubation, a tracheostomy, chest tubes, and closed chest cardiac massage. Despite these efforts, the President’s pupils were widely dilated and fixed, no deep tendon reflexes were present, and electrical silence of the heart was observed. President Kennedy was pronounced dead at 1:00 p.m. by Dr. Kemp Clark, Director of Neurological Surgery. The records, including a separate statement from Dr. M. T. Jenkins, Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology, were designated as Commission Exhibit No. 392.
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Chapter II presents medical records from Parkland Memorial Hospital related to the treatment of President Kennedy, Governor John Connally, and Lee Harvey Oswald. The chapter is organized into five sections covering the Kennedy resuscitation report concluding with the pronouncement of death at 1300, and three operative records for Governor Connally (thoracic, wrist, and thigh procedures), followed by the operative record for Oswald’s abdominal and chest surgery.
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