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Dallas Ambulance Driver Describes
Frantic Moments Following Shooting
EDITORS NOTE:
Ambulance driver Aubrey
Rike, 23, and his partner. Den
nis McGulre, had just delivered
an emergency patient to Park,
land Hospital in Dallas when
President Kennedy, an assas
sin's bullet through his brain,
was rushed into the hospital.
This is his story.
By AUBREY RIKE
As Told To
Inilrd Press International
DALLAS (UPH - "We had
just brought our patient in and
were at the emergency desk at
the hospital when these two
men came in. One was carrying
a briefcase and the other a big
rifle. It looked like a machine
gun to me.
"The one with the brief case
yelled, 'we need some stretch
ers right now.' TIk one with the
gun said, 'all right, everybody
clear out of here.'
"I looked up and the first
man I saw coming in w as Vice
President Johnson. From the
way he was walking and be
cause he was so pale, I thought
he had suffered another heart
attack.
"They brought in Governor
Connally. 1 recognized his face.
Ifts chest and stomach were
covered with blood and I knew
immediately he had been shot.
There was too much blood for
a stabbing and it was too local
ized for an auto accident.
"Then they wheeled in this
stretcher w ith a man's body on
it. His head was covered, but I
recognized Mrs. Kennedy. She
was running alongside the
stretcher, holding onto it and
crying. I knew then the Presi
dent had been shot.
"When the emergency room
quieted down, they had us bring
our patient back, then we took
him to general medicine. That's
when the call came over the
loudspeaker for us to report
immediately to our ambulance.
"We rushed back to the am
bulance and there was a man
in a suit and carrying a gun,
there with a Dallas policeman.
They told us to stay with the
ambulance, not to leave-and not
to talk to anyone.
"They said we might be need
ed to rush a patient to another
hospital.
"After a while, Mr. (Vernonl
Oneal (funeral home owner)
drove up in a hearse with a
casket. We took the casket into
the room where the President's
body was. He was covered with
a sheet.
"We waited while priests
prayed and gave the last rites
or something. Then Mrs. Ken
nedy came in.
"She looked at us and smiled,
and started pulling on her ring
finger. After a minute, she went
across, lifted the sheet and put
the ring on his finger. She was
crying.
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"When she left, we picked up
the President's body, put it in
tlie casket and closed the lid.
Then we started out. Someone
stopped us and told us not to
leave yet. We went back to tlie
room.
"Then they came and told us
to go. When we got about half
way across the emergency
room, a priest stopped us, put
a cross on the casket and
prayed.
"We took the casket to the
hearse and loaded it in on one
side. We let down the seat on
the other side so Mrs. Kennedy
could ride with the body. She
smiled again and thanked us.
She never did break down then.
"When we closed the hearse,
the secret servicemen took
over. They drove it to the air
port. We got it back there after
the airplane left.
"It was hard. We picked up
the body and I kept thinking
'this is the President.' The feel
in? was the same one I get
when we have to pick up some
little child that has been hurt or
killed, or maybe a relative.
"I never cried, but I had to
choke back the tears. Dennis
was about the same way. He's
quiet anyway, but this time he
didn't have anything to say.
"Now I'm sorry I live in Dal
las. I was born and raised here,
but now I'm ashamed."
Johnson Completely Recovered From 7955 Heart Attack
NEW YORK UPH - Presi
dent Lyndon B. Johnson has
completely recovered from the
heart attack he suffered eight
years ago and will be a vigor
ously healthy chief executive,
according to heart specialists
here.
They pointed to the active
lite Johnson lias led since his
montlis - long recuperation in
1955, including tlie 1W0 election
campaign as President Kenne
dy's running mate.
"You could have no better
proof of his complete recov
ery," said one professor of
medicine who for reasons of
medical ethics spoke anonym
ously. He and other specialists
deferred to Johnson's own phys
ician, Dr. J. Willis Hurst of
Emory University, Atlanta, who
was en route from New Y'ork to
Washingtcn.
They could speak of what
medical science knows in gen
eral about recoveries from
heart attacks. Each week, each
month and each year the vic
tim survives his personal disas
ter, his heart muscle is healing
itself and ridding itself of scar
tisue.
Some Remains
Some scar tissue always re
mains as a residue but it need
not interfere with healthy heait
function, they said. In the unan
imous opinion of tlirre spe
cialists, a man who has had a
complete recovery cf years
long duration can ace up to
the most exacting tasks, includ
ing that of being president.
They pointed to the example
of President Dwight D. Eisen
hower, w ho suffered a heart at
tack during his first term, went
on to win re-election and still is
vigorously healthy.
To be sure, the man w ho has
had one heart attack has dem
onstrated "susceptibility." one
specialist said. But. after lie
has recovered, this "susceptibil
ity can be minimized to zero by
proper living."
Johnson's phvsiclan, Dr.
Hurst, has to'd colleagues that
his patient "has devoted him
self unstintmgly to his recov
ery." At tlie time of his attack
he weiglied well over 200
pounds. Now his weight is
around ISO pounds which is con
sidered an "optimum" weight
for a man wlio is six feet three
inches tall with heavy bone
structure.
Reject Shock Notion
The specialists rejected the
layman's idea thai a sudden
emotional shock such as the
assassinalicn of a beloved su
perior and being elevated in a
flash into (lie nation's highest
office was "bad for the
heart."
It is not "bad1' for tlie heal
thy heart, they said. The heal
thy heart adjusts itself to all
the situations of Jiving without
any damage to itself. They
were convinced on tlie evidence
available to tliem that Johnson
has a healthy heart since his
attack occurred on July 2. 1955,
and lie has luid many shocks
since then, even though none
could be in any way compara
ble to the shock he had Friday.
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LONDON (UPD-Soviet Pre
mier Nikita Khrushchev may
seek an early personal meeting
with President Johnson, high
Communist diplomats said here
Saturday. , .
The Soviet leader was report
ed most anxious to make sure
that the diplomatic channel be
tween Moscow and Washington
remains open and tlie "dia
logue" with the West continues
under the Johnson administra
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deeply perturbed that Kennedy's
death could signal a change of
U.S. strategy. He had come to
respect the late President and
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mere seeking an early chance
for a conference with the new
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