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Parkland "Hospital Highlights" newsletter Vol. 1, Number 5

Object number2007.015.0001

Date12/09/1963

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Credit LinePeter N. Geilich Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

MediumPaper

Dimensions11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm)

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DescriptionParkland "Hospital Highlights" newsletter, Volume 1, Number 5, Dallas County Hospital District, Dallas, Texas, dated December 9, 1963. The first page of this 4-page document is a letter to the staff and personnel of Parkland Hospital from Texas Governor John Connally dated November 30, 1963. The newsletter also contains a Dallas County Hospital District Office Memorandum to all employees from C.J. Price, Administrator, dated November 27, 1963. Newsletter articles describe what was going on at the hospital during the weekend of the assassination as well as honoring and mourning the dead and wounded. Peter Geilich was an administrator at Woodlawn and Parkland Memorial Hospitals from 1962 to 1969. He helped coordinate media relations and arrangements with the Connally and Oswald families in the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination. He also visited with Jack Ruby at Parkland during the last weeks of Ruby's life.

Curatorial Commentary

John Connally's shaky signature was a result of having to sign letters and documents with his left hand. The right-handed governor's right hand was severely wounded when the bullet that struck him while seated in front of President Kennedy also passed through the top of his wrist and out the bottom, and then embedded in his left thigh. - Gary Mack, Curator