On looking at the wound to John F Kennedy's head, Robert McClelland knew that it could not be repaired
told the story 8,000 times but, each time he was asked, Robert McClelland, “Dr Mac” to his colleagues and students, would willingly begin again in his quiet, undramatic way. At around 12.30 on November 22nd 1963, as he was showing residents a film on how to repair a hiatus hernia at the Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, a little knock came at the door. And he and a colleague were called away to the emergency room two floors down.
Afterwards they were asked to write reports on a single sheet of paper. Then it was back to work. They were shaken, but barely talked about it. He took his bloodied suit to the cleaner’s—had to, as he only had two—but kept his shirt unwashed in a box. He had seen Lincoln’s bloody shirt on display in Washington, and was fascinated both by the man and by the surgeon’s attempts to save him after that pistol shot a century before.
He was often asked why he had made such efforts to save him. First, because that was his job; second, because Oswald had been accused but not convicted. And he did not believe that Oswald had acted alone. He was no expert in physics or ballistics, and his knowledge of how bodies reacted to bullets was drawn mainly from deer-hunting in East Texas where he had grown up, eager to be a doctor like his grandfather. Still less did he have time for those nuts, conspiracy theorists.
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