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TRAUMA ROOM ONE: REVISITED

By Russell Kent, The Assassination Chronicles Vol. 1, Issue 4; Dec '95

 

Parkland Hospital Trauma Room 1Recently the Dealey Plaza U.K. group sponsored a presentation showing the medical personnel in Trauma Room one. What follows is a report of that presentation, which tried to show three things:

1. The number of doctors attending the President

2. The order of arrival of these doctors (important for understanding what they might have seen of the throat wound before/after the tracheotomy)

3. The procedures carried out by the doctors.

I used only the published literature, so at times I took an informed guess ( I have a BSC in Physiology and spent two years doing cardiovascular research at St. Thomas' Hospital, London). Also, I couldn't place some doctors who were obviously there (and are on Brad Parker's list) as they didn't testify to the WC, have not been interviewed, or just were not specific enough about where they were or what they did.

This is, therefore, a reconstruction of the 17 doctors who attended the President for more than a few minutes and their relative positions around the table.

placement diagram
Above JFK's head - (1)Hunt, (2)Giesecke & (3)Jenkins (anesthetists position) Left of JFK's neck - (4)Perry, (5)Carrico & (6) (sorry, not in the text) not sure of exact positions)
Left arm -(7) Jones (did left arm cutdown and left chest drain) Right or left chest - (8)Clark, (9)Bashour & (10)Seldin (again ask Dr Crenshaw - Clark must have been opposite the ECG machine)
Left leg - (11)Curtis, (12)White & (13)Zedelitz (did the left leg cutdown) Right leg - (14)Crenshaw & (15)Salyer (did right leg cutdown)
- Right chest - (16)Peters & (17)Baxter (inserted right chest drain).

I am not suggesting that the doctors didn't move around or that the procedures were carried out simultaneously; I'm attempting a snapshot.

Russell Kent has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physiology from the University of London. After graduating in 1983, Russell did two years medical research at St. Thomas' Hospital, London in the Department of Applied Physiology sponsored by the Department of Anaesthetics and the British Heart Foundation. He became a technical author in 1985 and now manages a documentation consultancy based in the UK.

Graphic by Debra Conway

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