This is a compilation of oral histories featuring individuals on staff at Parkland Memorial Hospital the weekend of the assassination in 1963. President Kennedy was rushed to the facility on November 22, where he was later pronounced dead. Oswald too, received emergency treatment for a gunshot wound he would die from. Incidentally, it was the same hospital where Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, a murder witnessed by many on live television, later died from cancer complications on January 3, 1967.
These are the memories and first-hand accounts from the men and women inside Trauma Room One, where they attempted life-saving treatment of President Kennedy. View these oral histories and recordings of other Parkland staff in their entirety in our collection at emuseum.jfk.org.
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The hospital (at least this infamous trauma room area and ambulance entrance) were still there when I visited on May 20, 2023.
President Kennedy never made it to Parkland.A terrible day for this country.
The assassination of JFK takes me back to when I was a 7 year old boy living in NYC in the 3rd grade when we was interrupted by a teacher coming in our class room whispering in my teacher's ear telling her that JFK had been shot my teacher broke down and she cried in front of the class and told us that we have to go to the Auditorium so all classes went to the Auditorium and our principal told us that our President JFK had be shot and that the school is dismiss for the day, this was around 1pm EST on a Friday we were in shock, I ran home to tell my mother like she didn't know lol, a very sad day in America that I will never forget.
Crenshaw and his bookā¦lol, good grief. The one doctor who wasnāt in the room very long, and most doctors donāt even recall seeing him there, has the most to say. He was just a junior resident at the time. Dr. Jones said āI donāt remember Dr. Crenshaw in the room.ā Dr. Jenkins said āI dont remember him in there at any time, but he may have been.ā āNeither do Iā said Dr. Baxter.
Dr. Perry said āI feel sorry for him, I thought about suing him, but when I saw him on tv promoting his book, my anger melted. He has to know that what he said is false. And he knows the rest of us know that. You have to pity him, what a way to end his career. His story is filled with half truths and insinuations. And those of us who know him know he is desperate. He is a pitiful sight.ā
The only other doctor who still believes the head wound was on the rear of the head is Dr.Robert McClelland., Dr Perry said āI am astonished Bob would say that, I guess a last point is that Bob and Groden (conspiracy author) are such good friends I believe it has changed his attitude, Iām sure he thinks he saw that and has developed it in his mind, but his memory is just completely wrong and the autopsy photos and X-rays prove thatā. Dr. Jenkins said, āBob is an excellent surgeon, I hate to say Bob is mistaken but that is clearly not rightā. Mcclelland was taken to the national archives in 1988 for the Walter Kronkite documentary āthe men who killed Kennedyā to view the autopsy photos, and saw the head wound on the side, and agreed that is what he saw that day, and said āthat shows how even a trained observer can make an error in a moment of urgencyā. The reason for this discrepancy is obvious if you have seen the autopsy photos, jfk had a lot of hair, and since he was laying on his back, all the blood and brain matter drained down and dripped off the back of his head, it really does look like a rear wound from the photo, before all the blood and brain matter was cleaned up.
I had always read it was George Burkley who yelled, āgive him some steroids!ā. I bet Burkley said that to Carrico, and carrico ordered it, leading this doctor to believe it was carricoās idea.
This is a cia funded white wash. These responses were scripted and written by cia analysts. Impossible that all these physicians worked on President. Room was too small. The archivist for sixth floor is a cia funded government insider. All the sixth floor depository employees are government lackeys.
I was there two weeks ago and watched as the old hospital building was being demolished.
I can understand that Parkland is now a major medical site, but it would have been nice to save the building for history.
I read that they recently tore Parkland Memorial Hospital down. Piece of history.