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...autopsy was performed at the Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md., and its findings differed in significant respects from earlier reports by doctors at Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital. The Parkland doctors' only interest had been in trying to save the President's life, totally forlorn though that hope was, and they took little time for closer examination of his wounds...
...Thus Parkland doctors thought that one bullet struck Kennedy in the throat, just below the necktie knot, another in the back of the head, and either would have been fatal. But the autopsy indicated that the first bullet had struck Kennedy in the back, some six inches below the collar line, and that the throat wound had been made by a fragment of the last bullet, which literally exploded in Kennedy's head. Parkland doctors, who worked over Kennedy as he lay on his back, apparently missed the first wound. And it might not have been fatal. The bullet...
Only six days after he was released from Dallas' Parkland Hospital, Texas Governor John Connolly, 46, was back in, this time at Austin's St. David's Community Hospital, with an inflammation of the vein in his right leg through which he had been fed intravenously while recovering from wounds suffered during the President's assassination. Nevertheless, said he, doctors had given him the "real good news" that he would probably regain full use of his right wrist, shattered by the assassin's bullet...
...after Oswald appeared, Ruby ducked out from his position among the newsmen. A detective saw him, recognized him. "Jack!" he cried. "You crazy son of a bitch!" As the cop spoke, Ruby pointed his .38-cal. revolver at Oswald and fired one shot. Oswald died 100 minutes later at Parkland General Hospital...
...police receiver and called his paper at once. Some "trouble" had occurred on the presidential motorcade, he said, and he asked the paper to stand by. Only minutes later, Carter called again: the President had been shot. Within 20 minutes the Times Herald knew that Kennedy was at Parkland Hospital, and within 30 minutes it knew that he was dead...