06-12-2014, 03:36 AM
Next up is Dr. W. Kemp Clark:
PARKLAND MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
ADMISSION NOTE
JOHN F. KENNEDY
DATE AND HOUR 22 Nov 1963 DOCTOR:
12:20pm to 13:00 hrs
Called by EOR while standing in (illegible) Laboratory at SWMS. Told that the President had been shot. I arrived at the EOR at 1220 - 1225 and .The President was bleeding profusely from the back of the head. There was a large (3 x 3cm) amount of cerebral tissue present on the cart. There was a smaller amount of cerebellar tissue present also.
A tracheostomy was being performed by Drs. Perry, Baxter and McClelland. Exam of the President showed that an endotracheal tube was in place and respiratory assistance was being given by Dr. Akins and Jenkins. The pupils were dilated, fixed to light and his eyes were deviated outward and the right one downward as as well .
The trach was completed and I adjusted the endotracheal tube a little bit. Blood was present in the oral pharynx. Suction was used to remove this. Levine Catheter was passed into the stomach at this time.
He was (illegible) that I (illegible) no carotid pulse. I immediately began closed chest massage. A pulse was obtained at the carotid and femoral pulse levels.
Dr. Perry then took over the cardiac massage so I could evaluate the head wound.
There was a large wound beginning in the right occiput extending into the parietal region. Much of the skull appeared gone at brief examination . The previously described lacerated brain was present.
By this time an EKG was hooked up. There was no electrical activity of the heart and no respiratory effort - He was pronounced dead at 1300 hrs by me.
W. Kemp Clark
22 Nov 1963
1615 hrs -
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Once again, cerebral and cerebellar tissue was observed, plus the President was "bleeding profusely from the back of the head". Clark placed the large wound as "beginning in the right occiput extending into the parietal region". Once again, the official WC back of head autopsy photo shows no such wound.
The right parietal bone:
![[Image: 250px-Parietal_bone_lateral.png]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Parietal_bone_lateral.png/250px-Parietal_bone_lateral.png)
PARKLAND MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
ADMISSION NOTE
JOHN F. KENNEDY
DATE AND HOUR 22 Nov 1963 DOCTOR:
12:20pm to 13:00 hrs
Called by EOR while standing in (illegible) Laboratory at SWMS. Told that the President had been shot. I arrived at the EOR at 1220 - 1225 and .The President was bleeding profusely from the back of the head. There was a large (3 x 3cm) amount of cerebral tissue present on the cart. There was a smaller amount of cerebellar tissue present also.
A tracheostomy was being performed by Drs. Perry, Baxter and McClelland. Exam of the President showed that an endotracheal tube was in place and respiratory assistance was being given by Dr. Akins and Jenkins. The pupils were dilated, fixed to light and his eyes were deviated outward and the right one downward as as well .
The trach was completed and I adjusted the endotracheal tube a little bit. Blood was present in the oral pharynx. Suction was used to remove this. Levine Catheter was passed into the stomach at this time.
He was (illegible) that I (illegible) no carotid pulse. I immediately began closed chest massage. A pulse was obtained at the carotid and femoral pulse levels.
Dr. Perry then took over the cardiac massage so I could evaluate the head wound.
There was a large wound beginning in the right occiput extending into the parietal region. Much of the skull appeared gone at brief examination . The previously described lacerated brain was present.
By this time an EKG was hooked up. There was no electrical activity of the heart and no respiratory effort - He was pronounced dead at 1300 hrs by me.
W. Kemp Clark
22 Nov 1963
1615 hrs -
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Once again, cerebral and cerebellar tissue was observed, plus the President was "bleeding profusely from the back of the head". Clark placed the large wound as "beginning in the right occiput extending into the parietal region". Once again, the official WC back of head autopsy photo shows no such wound.
The right parietal bone:
![[Image: 250px-Parietal_bone_lateral.png]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Parietal_bone_lateral.png)
Mr. HILL. The right rear portion of his head was missing. It was lying in the rear seat of the car. His brain was exposed. There was blood and bits of brain all over the entire rear portion of the car. Mrs. Kennedy was completely covered with blood. There was so much blood you could not tell if there had been any other wound or not, except for the one large gaping wound in the right rear portion of the head.
Warren Commission testimony of Secret Service Agent Clinton J. Hill, 1964
Warren Commission testimony of Secret Service Agent Clinton J. Hill, 1964