/internal/media/dispatcher/33099/fullDr. Robert McClelland's Statement of Activities11/22/196311 × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm)PaperParkland Hospital Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza1994.001.0009.00010Original 2 page handwritten summary statement by Dr. Robert N. McClelland at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas dated Friday, November 22, 1963 at 4:45 p.m. This is a summary statement that describes what Dr. McClelland did and saw in the Parkland Hospital emergency room during the treatment of President John F. Kennedy. The statement is handwritten in black ink on the front and back of an Admission Note form. There is also a 2 page copy of this document that was previously stapled.
The statement reads:
"Nov. 22, 1963 4:45 P.M. / Robert N. McClelland
Statement Regarding Assassination of President Kennedy
At approximately 12:45 P.M. on the above date I was called from the second floor of Parkland Hospital and went immediately to the Emergency Operating Room. When I arrived President Kennedy was being attended by Drs. Malcolm Perry, Charles Baxter, James Carrico and Ronald Jones. The President was at that time comatose from a massive gunshot wound of the head with a fragment wound of the trachea. An endotracheal tube and assisted respiration was started immediately by Dr. Carrico on duty in the EOR when the President arrived. Drs. Perry, Baxter and I then performed a tracheotomy for respiratory distress and tracheal injury and Drs. Jones and Paul Peters inserted bilateral anterior chest tubes for pneumathoraces secondary to the tracheomediastina injury. Simultaneously Dr. Jones had started 3 cut-downs giving blood and fluids immediately. In spite of this at 12:55 he was pronounced dead by Dr. Kemp Clark the neurosurgeon and professor of neuro-surgery who arrived immediately after I did. The cause of death was due to massive head and brain injury from a gunshot wound of the left temple. He was pronounced dead after external cardiac massage failed & ECG activity was gone.
Robert N. McClelland, M.D. [signature]
Asst. Prof. of Surgery
Southwestern Med. / School of Univ of Tex.
Dallas, Texas"Documents6373721.590043180127.94005588015133DocumentTwo-page document handwritten by Dr. Robert McClelland less than four hours after President Kennedy's death at 1:00 p.m. The statement describes what McClelland did and saw in the Parkland Hospital emergency room during the treatment of President Kennedy.
DoctorsEmergency careEmergency roomMedical notesMcClelland, RobertKennedy, John F.Parkland HospitalDallasParkland Hospital management asked everyone who participated in the treatment of President Kennedy to write down what they did that day while their memories were still fresh. - Gary Mack, Curator