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By BRYCE MILLER
DALLAS L'Pll-H is now
possible to reconstruct in detail
die events that took place in
Parkland Memorial Hospital
one week ago today shortly aft
er President Kennedy was mor.
tally wounded by an assassin's
bullets.
The first call came to Park
land from Uie Dallas Police De
partment. "The President has been six.
He is on the way to Parkland."
Surgical teams sprang into
action.
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UP, UP AND AWAY This is one of three large evergreen trees donated lest week
to the city by Carter's Market. The trees, it was decided, had become too large for
decorative purposes and therefore were given to the city. One of the trees was taken
by the Fire Department and was planted in front of the new fire substation on Shasta
Way. Plans call for that tree to be used as a permanent Christmas tree. The other
two were taken by the Parks and Recreation Department and were planted in Ki
wanis Park on Kit Carson Way.
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Needs Interruption
By ANN LANDERS
Dear Ann Landers: You are
usually right but not always.
I would like to challenge you
v on ono issue.
3 ' You said in a
k i recent column
it is rude to
interrupt peo
spcaking, and
that only a
clod would cut
in right in Uie middle of a sen
tence. Obviously you have never
lived in Louisville. All the na
tive women in Uiuisvillo have
been vaccinated with a phono
graph needle. Tlicy have a hab
it of ending every sentence
with "and" which is a neat
way of holding Uie floor indel
initely both in person or on the
teleplione and it Is just ono end
less lino of yakkity yak yak yak
and a person can't get a word
in edgewiso and if you think
' you can change Uie subject for
get it because Uiey go on and
on until you could just tear
your hair riglil (Hit of your head
by the roots and all Uie while
you are becoming more and
more furious because a yes or
no would have been sufficient
and Uicn I pick up Uie paper
and seo where Ann Landers
avs it is rude to interrupt.
KRIJSTRATKI)
Dear Frus: I know plenty of
women and men, too who
have never lived In Louisville
and ynu could explode hrfcire
they give up the door so please
don't blame one Of the loveliest
rltlri In Ihe world for whut is
really a human weakness and
I loved your letter!
Dear Ann Landers: Are we
old-fashioned, as our lil-ycar-old
daugliter says? Please art
us straight. Or if she is Uie one
who needs it, toll us and we'll
set her straight.
Our dauglKer's steady boy
friend usually arrives anywhere
from .K minutes to an hour he
fore sho in ready to leave. He
marches directly tipslairs and
goea into her bedroom "to keep
her company" while she finish
es di-essing, combs her hair or
puts on her make-up.
Sometimes other members of
the family are upstairs. We
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Dr. Charles James Cameo, a
resident in surgery, was in the
emergency room when a Secret
Serviceman burst through the
swinging doors. A second one,
with a sub-machine gun cradled
in his arms, was right on his
heels.
The first agent asked for two
portable hospital carts. He
called them "stretchers." One
for Gov. John Connally, the oth
er for the President.
Carts Wheeled In
In moments Uie portable carts
have two younger (laughters
and Uiey resent this invasion of
privacy. Often, however, Uiere
is no one upstairs except this
16-yenr-old and her boy friend
and we don't like it. She says
we are (square. Arc we ?AP
PLETON, WIS.
Dear Wis: A gentleman dries
not go upstairs and wander
around looking for his date.
If this boy doesn't know bet
tor and your daughter hasn't
sense enough to tell htm, then
as parents you should not hesi
tate to tench this sipinre a few
simple manners.
Dear Ann Landers: Although
wo have been married for a
numlier of years my husband's
two sisters continue to write to
him at the office.
Wilfred Li a busy man and
reads Uie letters hurriedly, then
tosses Uicm away. When his
sisters come to visit at Christ
mas they complain bitterly that
they never hear from us. I tell
them wx never hear from lliem
eitlier. Then Uiey say Uiey write
to tho office and that they as
sume Wilfred brings the let
ters home. Wilfred confesses he
meant to bring the letters home
but somehow he didn't get
around to it. Later, when we
are alone, ho tells me tlio let
ters are pure drivel and he
wouldn't waste my time.
1 have two broUiers but I
would never Insult Uieir wives
by writing to Uiem at Ihe of
fice. SImhiW I come right out
and tell my sisters-in-law how
I feel wlien they luing up the
subject in a few weeks as
tliry are hound In? VIIUilMA
BEACH
Dear Virginia: If sonir of you
readers were as frank with the
people who give you trouble an
you are with me, your prob
lems would be solved right now.
II v all means (ell your hus
band's sisters If Ihrr Want re
plies their letters iliev should
write to the house. Tell them
that you have nothing whatev
er to do with oftlee mall nor do
you wish to.
Ann Landers will be glad to
help you with your problems.
Send Utcm to her in care of this
newspaper enclosing a stamed.
clf-addrcsscd rnvelope.
were wheeled into emergency
operating room No. 1. Connally
was first. Tlien the President,
With .Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy
walking beside the cart, holding
bis head, her pink suit bloody.
Connally was wheeled into
room No. 2, an identical 15 by
10 foot room directly across the
hall.
Vice President Lyndon B.
Johnson walked in, hand on
chest. Sen. Italph Yarborough,
win had been riding in the mo
torcade uilh him. was in tears.
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Demos Halt
Political Meets
PORTLAND (UPP - The
Oregon State Democratic party
has called a moratorium on all
major meetings and political a
pcaranccs for the remainder of
tln year, E. D. Spencer, state
Democratic chairman, said to
day. The action follows the nation
al party policy.
Ho requested that all Demo
cratic organizations abide by
the national policy.
Silencer also announced Uie
resignation of Mrs. (lone Wiley
as executive secretary of t lie
state organization. Mis. Wiley
has accepted a position as ad
ministrative assistant to the di
rector of the Tarry Center for
Children here.
In America's darkest
. .
a young chaplain sounaea a
battle cry that inspired his
shipmates and the nation:
I PRAISED THE LORD
THEY PASSED THE AMMUNITION
Howell M. Forgy, the Navy chap
lain who shouted the words
that were turned into an inspir
ing battle song for the nation,
recalls the dark and fateful day
of December 7th, 1941 in the
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At first, some feared Johnson
might have suffered a heart at,
tack.
The operating table in room
No. 1 had been shoved out of
Uie way. The doctors were mov
ing so swiftly Uiey did not want
to lake lime to lift the Presi
dent off the cart.
Inserted Tube
Dr. Carrico, the first man in
the room, forced an endotrach
eal (breathing tube) down the
President's windpipe as Dr.
Malcolm Perry, an assistant
professor of surgery, dashed in.
Perry decided further help in
breathing was needed. The first
bullet had opened the windpipe.
Dr. Perry inserted a tube
Uirough Uie bullet hole.
Dr. Charles Baxter, assistant
professor of surgery and direc
tor of student health science,
arrived at this time. Mrs. Ken
nedy still was in Uie room. Bax
ter glanced at her and said "I
believe you had better step out
side." There were five staff mem
bers hovering around 'Kennedy
at Ihe time. Whenever one
made an observation, the oth
ers immediately agreed.
Asked for Priest
Mrs. Kennedy turned to a
White House aide in Uie corri
dor and said: "Call a priest."
The aide relayed the message
to Sieve Landregan, assistant
to hospital administrator C. J.
Price. Landregan immediately
called the nearby Holy Trinity
Catholic Church.
More doctors rushed to Ken
nedy's side. There were 15 in
all. Besides Perry. Carrico, and
Baxter, there were Drs. Wil
liam Kemp Clark, chairman of
neurosurgery; Robert McClel
land, assistant professor of sur
gery; M. T. Jenkins, chairman
of anesthesiology; Found A. Ba
shour, associate professor of
internal medicine; Adolph Gie
sccke, clinical associate in an
esthesiology; Paul C. Peters, as
sistant professor of urology;
Dr. Ronald C. Jones, senior res
ident in surgery; Charles Cren
shaw, surgery resident; Gene
Akin, anesthesiology resident;
Jackie II. Hunt, anesthesiology
follow; Don Curtis, oral surgery
resident, and Kenneth Salyer,
surgery resident.
Remembered Deficiency
Carrico remcmlwred reading
Uiat Kennedy suffered adrenal
deficiency and immediately ad
ministered hydro-cortisone.
Jones began a "cut-down" on
Kennedy's left arm to insert a
calheler a device to force
more blood into a vein and keep
the passage open. Curtis com
pleted the same procedure on
the left leg.
Laclalcd Jtingcr's solution la
cryslaloid solution sometimes
called while blood and used un
til whole blood can be obtained I
was pumped in. In seconds, a
technician from the blood bank
arrived with "0" negative blood
(universal donor) and it was
started.
To feed the blood faster, hand
pumps were used.
By now, the cart had been
elevated at Uie fK)t to help the
blood Ret back to the heart.
Then one of Uie doctors no
ticed a fnithing of the blood in
the neck wxiund. "He's bubbling
air," the doctor said. This
means a hole in tho lung.
Re-Expand Lungs
Peters mid Baxter immediate
ly inserted a tube into the right
upper part of the chest, just lie
low the shoulder, to re-expand
Uie lungs ami keep them from
collaiwing. Perry and Jones at
the same Ume inserted a simi
lar tube on the left.
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Effort To
Doctors and nurses raced in
and out. Each tune the operat
ing room door opened, Mrs.
Kennedy tried to look in.
"What is happening." she
would ask. "How is he'?'
Clark, the neurosurgeon, had
run all the way from the medi
cal school. He was one of the
last of the team to arrive. He
raced through the emergency
room door not more than five
minutes after the President was
brought in.
Clark looked down at the
President. The eyes were open,
staring back, sightless.
"His eyes are fixed and di
lated," Clark said.
No Hope
Any first year medical stu
dent knows this means that
there is no hope for the pa
tient. Clark had a "torpedo"
honked up immediately to Ken
nedy. This is a small machine
with a scope that shows a heart
beat in waves as a little green
light travels from one side to an
other. The green light moved
straight across with a hopeless
ly steady line.
Clark looked up at Perry.
"It's too late, Mac," he said.
But Perry grabbed a stool,
placed his knee on it to give
him leverage and began giving
Kennedy closed chest message
using his fist in a rocking,
pressing motion over Uie breast
bone to provide, if possible, a
B0-70 per minute beat. He and
Clark took turns.
A more sensitive cardiotachy
scope was brought in by Bash
our. This was his machine. He
specializes in cardiology. Before
coming to the United States, he
was head of cardiology at Bei
rut, Lebanon.
Electrodes from the machine
were attached to Kennedy's left
arm. But Uie green pinpoint of
light on Uie scope did not wav
er the tiniest fraction of an
inch.
President Was Dead
An attendant was standing by
Save Life Of President Kennedy
with two rods Uiat sometimes
can shock a faltering heart into
beating. He put them away. The
President was dead. He had
been dead for minutes, probab
ly before he got to the hos
pital. Jenkins, monitoring Uie oxy
gen equipment, turned Uie
valves off. The President was
dressed only in his trousers,
shorts and brace, for his ailing
back.
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Baxter got a fresh sheet. He
and Jenkins tenderly pulled it
across Uie body and up over
the face. Kennedy's coat, shirt,
undershirt and Ue had been
folded and put on one of Uie
steel shelves lining Uie w all.
The floor was littered w ith emp
ty bottles, bloody banadges,
boxes that had contained sterile
dressings, bits of tubing. At the
foot of the cart, among the lit
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