/internal/media/dispatcher/1329/fullParkland "Hospital Highlights" newsletter Vol. 1, Number 512/09/196311 x 8 1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm)PaperPeter N. Geilich Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2007.015.00010"Hospital Highlights" newsletter, Volume 1, Number 5, Dallas County Hospital District, Dallas, Texas, December 9, 1963. Contains a note to the staff and personnel of Parkland Hospital from John Connally on November 30, 1963. Contains a Dallas County Hospital District Office Memorandum to all employees from C.J. Price, Administrator, on November 27, 1963. Contains information about what was going on at the hospital during the weekend of the assassation and a part honoring/mourning the dead/wounded. The back of the newsletter on the top left side, written in pencil, reads "Keep".Documents6455421.590043180127.940055880126859Document0E-10Parkland "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.
NewslettersOswald, Lee HarveyGeilich, Peter N.Connally, JohnKennedy, John F.Parkland HospitalDallasJohn 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