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PAT71QLOGICAL EXAHIKATIOl? REPORT ' . •' "3-272
CLINICAL SUXMAHY:
was riding in an open car in a motorcade duv '
on 22 November 1263. Tho Preci--t vaa c let.
Kennedy seated on the same seat 'his left.
President was Governor John B. C .oily of Te
sat Mrs. Connolly, The vehicle a moving at
into an underpass that leads tr freeway rout
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fell forward bleeding from the head, (C
sane gunfire.) According to newspaper re,
Lob Jackson, a Dallas "Times Kerald"Photog
the shots and saw a rifle barrel disappearing
nearby Texas School Book Depository Building.
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:ly following the wounding of tho two
men the car was driven to Parkland Hospital in Dallas, In the emargeacy room of Chat
hospital the President was attended by Dr. Malcolm Perry, Telephone communication with
Dr. Perry on November 23, 1963 develops the following information rc j.at ive to tha ob" •
servations made by Dr. Perry and procedures performed there prior to death.
head and a second much smaller wound of the
midline. A tracheostomy was performed by c
bloody air was noted bubbling from the vo
of the trachea was observed. Incisions war
bilaterally to combat possible subcutaneous
and saline were begun and oxygen was admini
arrest occurred and closed chest cardiac ma
The President was pronounced dead approxima
his wounds.
Dr, Perry noted tho massive wound of tha
low anterior neck in approximately tho
-•.tending tho latter wound. At this point
a and an injury to tho right lateral wall
e made in tho upper anterior chest wall
emphysema. Intravenous infusions of blood
tered. Despito theco measures cardiac
sage failed to re-establish cardiac action,
tely thirty to forty Eixsutoa after receiving
Tho remains waro transported via tha
Presidential plane to Washington, D.C. ar— . ubsequently to tho Naval Medical School,
National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, dryland for postmortem examination.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION 0? BODY; The body is that of a muscular, vall-
cA . developed .and vail nourished adult Caucasian
male measuring 72~> inches and weighing approximately 170 pounds, Thoro is beginning
rigor mortis, minimal dependent livor mortis cr the dorsum, and early a*gor mortis, Tha
hair is reddish brown and abundant, the eyes ara blue, tho right pupil measuring 8 cm,
in diameter, the left 4 mm. There is edema ana ccchymosis of tho inner canthus rogioa
of the left eyelid measuring approximately 1,5 cm, in greatest diameter. Yhcro is cdessA .■
and ecchymosis diffusely over tho right supra-orbital ridgo with abnormal mobility of
the underlying bone, • (Tho remainder of tho scalp will bo doscribv4 with tha ski\ 11.)
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Dallas (Tex.). Police Department. [Autopsy Report for John F. Kennedy], report, November 22, 1963; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth340033/m1/3/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Municipal Archives.