Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Dr. SHAW. I returned to Dallas and on September 1, 1963, started
working full time with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical
School as professor of thoracic surgery and chairman of the division of
thoracic surgery.
In this position I also am chief of thoracic surgery at Parkland
Memorial Hospital in Dallas which is the chief hospital from the
standpoint of the medical facilities of the school.
Mr. SPECTER. Are you licensed to practice medicine in the State of
Texas?
Dr. SHAW. I am.
Mr. SPECTER. Are you certified?
Dr. SHAW. By the board of thoracic surgery you mean?
Mr. SPECTER. Yes; by the board of thoracic surgery.
Dr. SHAW. Yes; as of 1948.
Mr. SPECTER. What experience, if any, have you had, Dr. Shaw, with
bullet wounds?
Dr. SHAW. I have had civilian experience, both in the work at Parkland
Hospital, where we see a great amount of trauma, and much of this
involves bullet wounds from homicidal attempts and accidents.
The chief experience I had, however, was during the Second World War
when I was serving as chief of the thoracic surgery center in Paris,
France. And during this particular experience we admitted over 900
patients with chest wounds of various sort, many of them, of course,
being shell fragments rather than bullet wounds.
Mr. SPECTER. What is your best estimate as to the total number of
bullet wounds you have had experience with?
Dr. SHAW. It would be approximately 1,000, considering the large number
of admissions we had in Paris.
Mr. SPECTER. What were your duties in a general way on November 22,
1963.
Dr. SHAW. On that particular date I had been at a conference at
Woodlawn Hospital, which is our hospital for medical chest diseases
connected with the medical school system. I had just gone to the
Children's Hospital to see a small patient that I had done a
bronchoscopy on a few days before and was returning to Parkland
Hospital, and the medical school.
Woodlawn and the Children's Hospital are approximately a mile away from
Parkland Hospital.
Mr. SPECTER. Were you called upon to render any aid to President
Kennedy on November 22?
Dr. SHAW. No.
Mr. SPECTER. Were you called upon to render medical aid to Gov. John B.
Connally on that day?
Dr. SHAW. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. Will you describe briefly the circumstances surrounding
your being called into the case.
Dr. SHAW. As I was driving toward the medical school I came to an
intersection of Harry Hines Boulevard and Industrial Boulevard.
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