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Jul 11, 2022 · Dallas County is saying goodbye to the former Parkland Memorial Hospital, the place where President John F. Kennedy succumbed to his injuries after being shot by Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov. 22, 1963.
- Briauna Brown
Jul 14, 2022 · Special to The Dallas Examiner Parkland Health officials closed the doors to the former Parkland Memorial Hospital July 11, signifying the start of a 24-month process that will end with the building’s complete removal from the site. The original building opened in 1894 as a clapboard building on the corner of Maple and […]
- 10 Jackie Wouldn’T Let Them Take JFK Inside
- 9 Matter of Life & Death
- 8 A Sobering Faux Pas
- 7 A Troubling Tracheotomy
- 6 Cold Calls: Pranking Parkland
- 5 “If Thou Livest…”
- 4 “Mr. President…”
- 3 “This Is My body…”
- 2 Irony of Ironies
- 1 Oddest. Memo. Ever.
Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who famously splayed himself over JFK and the First Lady seconds after the shooting, knew the president was dead. As the limo floored it toward Parkland, Hill flashed a thumbs-down signal to the agents in the follow-up car, indicating how grave the situation was. Still, that didn’t mean they weren’t going to try...
Immediately following the fatal headshot at Dealey Plaza, Jackie Kennedy can be seen climbing out of her seat and onto the trunk of the convertible. Horrifyingly, she was retrieving a large piece of her husband’s brain and skull. She was able to collect the fragment before Secret Service agent Clint Hill hopped aboard and dove on her and JFK, a hum...
Upon entering Parkland, anyone who took one look at the president’s condition knew he was either already dead or unsavable. Given his gaping head wound and motionless body, it didn’t take a doctor or even a nurse to see that JFK was gone. Still, this was the President of the United States—plus, his wife was at his side. So the surgeons at Parkland ...
Then as now, it is common for someone in as grave a situation as the president to have a tracheal tube inserted for easier breathing or administering certain medicines. At Parkland that day, this decision was made all the more obvious given that a bullet had passed directly through Kennedy’s neck—a wound suffered prior to the fatal headshot. Coinci...
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons Initial news of the shooting, including early reports that the president may have been struck in the head, prompted well-wishers across the country. Unfortunately, it also brought out the creeps and crazies. According to historian William Manchester, as surgeons tried desperately to resuscitate the president in the o...
Since JFK was Catholic, a priest was summoned to perform the church’s Last Rites. With updates on Kennedy’s status limited, the news circulated on broadcasts—along with reassurances that this didn’t necessarily mean he was near death. Better safe than eternally sorry. Soon, local parish priest Father Oscar Huber arrived at Parkland and was led into...
Lyndon Baines Johnson, who described the vice presidency as not being worth “a bucket of warm piss,” was two cars behind JFK. He was with his wife, Lady Bird, and Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough. Despite initial reports that Johnson was either wounded or suffered a heart attack, he was unharmed. Arriving at Parkland, agents yanked LBJ to his feet an...
Following the official announcement of the president’s death, JFK’s security detail placed his body in a coffin and began transporting it down the hall. There, they ran straight into local officials, including Dallas County Coroner Earl Rose. What ensued was among the stupidest “federal vs. local authority” standoffs in history. Confronting JFK’s d...
Two days later, accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was being led through the basement of the Dallas police headquarters. It was a routine transfer from the city jail to the county one. Of course, nothing is routine when you’re handling the suspected murderer of the president. And with Dallas police already sensitive about their city’s hostile portr...
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons On November 27—five days after JFK’s death, three after Oswald’s—Parkland Hospital Administrator Charles Jack “CJ” Price sent one of the weirdest thank you letters in the history of office memorandums. While well-intending, the note to all hospital employees reads like redundant, macabre overkill—like an executive gr...
Jul 11, 2022 · Piece-by-piece demolition of former Parkland hospital to begin. Published: 7/11/2022. Structure was operational for more than 60 years. Today, officials with Parkland Health closed the doors to the former Parkland Memorial Hospital, thus signifying the start of a 24-month process that will end with the building’s complete removal from the site.
Jul 29, 2022 · The old buildings on Parkland Memorial Hospital’s main campus are coming down to make way for a future project. The old Parkland Memorial Hospital, which opened Sept. 25, 1954, closed its doors ...
- Noelle Walker
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Jul 16, 2022 · Published July 16, 2022 • Updated on July 16, 2022 at 9:11 am. Doors to the former Parkland Memorial Hospital have officially closed, signifying the start of a 24-month process that will end ...
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Jul 24, 2015 · In the film, the seven doctors for the first time collectively discuss what really happened that day in the Emergency Room at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital when they tried to resuscitate the ...
