Upon arriving at Parkland Hospital, Lawson jumped from the lead car and rushed into the emergency entrance, where he was met by hospital staff members wheeling stretchers out to the automobile.[C2-187] Special Agent Hill removed his suit jacket and covered the President’s head and upper chest to prevent the taking of photographs.[C2-188] Governor Connally, who had lost consciousness on the ride to the hospital, regained consciousness when the limousine stopped abruptly at the emergency entrance. Despite his serious wounds, Governor Connally tried to get out of the way so that medical help could reach the President. Although he was reclining in his wife’s arms, he lurched forward in an effort to stand upright and get out of the car, but he collapsed again. Then he experienced his first sensation of pain, which became excruciating.[C2-189] The Governor was lifted onto a stretcher and taken into trauma room 2.[C2-190] For a moment, Mrs. Kennedy refused to release the President, whom she held in her lap, but then Kellerman, Greer, and Lawson lifted the President onto a stretcher and pushed it into trauma room 1.[C2-191] Treatment of President Kennedy The first physician to see the President at Parkland Hospital was Dr. Charles J. Carrico, a resident in general surgery.[C2-192] Dr. Carrico was in the emergency area, examining another patient, when he was notified that President Kennedy was en route to the hospital.[C2-193] Approximately 2 minutes later, Dr. Carrico saw the President on his back, being wheeled into the emergency area.[C2-194] He noted that the President was blue-white or ashen in color; had slow, spasmodic, agonal respiration without any coordination; made no voluntary movements; had his eyes open with the pupils dilated without any reaction to light; evidenced no palpable pulse; and had a few chest sounds which were thought to be heart beats.[C2-195] On the basis of these findings, Dr. Carrico concluded that President Kennedy was still alive.[C2-196] Dr. Carrico noted two wounds: a small bullet wound in the front lower neck, and an extensive wound in the President’s head where a sizable portion of the skull was missing.[C2-197] He observed shredded brain tissue and “considerable slow oozing” from the latter wound, followed by “more profuse bleeding” after some circulation was established.[C2-198] Dr. Carrico felt the President’s back and determined that there was no large wound there which would be an immediate threat to life.[C2-199] Observing the serious problems presented by the head wound and inadequate respiration, Dr. Carrico directed his attention to improving the President’s breathing.[C2-200] He noted contusions, hematoma to the right of the larynx, which was deviated slightly to the left, and also ragged tissue which indicated a tracheal injury.[C2-201] Dr. Carrico inserted a cuffed endotracheal tube past the injury, inflated the cuff, and connected it to a Bennett machine to assist in respiration.[C2-202]