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Pale and still easily exhausted, Democratic Governor John Connally last week tried to tend to the business of Texas from a hospital bed in Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital. His recovery from the bullet that ripped through his chest, wrist and thigh has been rapid. His punctured lung has re-inflated and is healing beyond all original expectations. Each day he is up and about for a bit longer. Half of the stainless steel wires used to stitch together his torn thigh have been removed. Doctors predicted that the Governor would leave the hospital in a week or so, should...
...call to Government service in Washington does not come from Old Friend Lyndon Johnson, Connally will leave Parkland Hospital to return to the 108-year-old becolumned Governor's mansion in Austin-and to the family life he loves with his attractive wife Nellie, a onetime University of Texas Sweetheart, their two sons and a daughter...
Five minutes later, the cars arrived at the emergency entrance of Parkland Memorial Hospital on Harry Hines Boulevard. The agents ran inside to get stretchers. John Connally was still conscious. The President had never known what hit him. Jacqueline Kennedy, even then proving that she had courage enough for a dozen, calmly continued to cradle her husband. Stretchers were brought out and both men were placed on them. Jackie, her skirt and stockings blotched by blood, helped get the President out of the car and, her hand on his chest, walked into the hospital beside him. Lyndon Johnson walked into...
...Avail." But the President never regained consciousness. In Emergency Room No. 1, Dr. Kemp Clark, 38, chief of Parkland's neurosurgical department, examined a large wound in the President's head and another smaller wound-from the second of the three shots-in his throat. Clark and eight other doctors worked over him for 40 minutes, but the President was already as dead as though he had fallen on a battlefield in mortal combat. The doctors gave him oxygen, anesthesia, performed a tracheotomy to help breathing; they fed him fluids, gave him blood transfusions, attached an electrocardiograph...
...President was taken to the Parkland's emergency room, but he never regained consciousness and died within a half hour