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
Mrs. CONNALLY. Yes, and they had not--the President was still--and Mrs.
Kennedy were still in the back. I still had not ever looked back at
the back seat after the second shot. I could hear, you know, hear them
talking about how sad, and lamenting the fact that the President was
in such poor shape and, of course, they didn't know whether he was--I
guess they didn't know whether he was alive or dead.
Mr. SPECTER. Did President Kennedy say anything at all after the
shooting?
Mrs. CONNALLY. He did not say anything. Mrs. Kennedy said, the first
thing I recall her saying was, after the first shot, and I heard her
say, "Jack, they have killed my husband," and then there was the second
shot, and then after the third shot she said, "They have killed my
husband. I have his brains in my hand," and she repeated that several
times, and that was all the conversation.
Mr. SPECTER. From that point forward you say you had your eyes to the
front so you did not have a chance----
Mrs. CONNALLY. Yes, because I had him, and I really didn't think about
looking back anyway, but I could just see the car rushing along, and
people and things rushing past us. I remember thinking what a terrible
sight this must be to those people, to see these two shot-up men, and
it was a terribly horrifying thing, and I think that is about as I
remember it.
Mr. SPECTER. What happened then after you got to the hospital?
Mrs. CONNALLY. We got to the hospital and, like I said, John heaved
himself over. They still could not seem to get Mrs. Kennedy or the
President out of the back of the car, but someone scooped him up in
their arms and put him on a stretcher. There were two stretchers there,
and then they took him off immediately to the emergency room, and they
ran down the hall with the stretcher, and I just ran along with them.
They took him into the emergency room, and right behind us came the
President on a stretcher, and they took him and put him in a room to
the right. There was much commotion and confusion. There were lots of
what I assumed were Secret Service men rushing in with machine guns,
I guess, or tommyguns. I am not real sure, they were big arms of some
sort. There was no one--there were lots of people across the hall.
There was no one with me and, of course, my thoughts then were, I guess
like any other woman, I wondered if all the doctors were in the room on
the left, and they were not taking too good care of my husband on the
right. I shouldn't have worried about that, should I?
I knew no one in the hospital and I was alone. Twice I got up and
opened the door into the emergency room, and I could hear John and I
could see him moving, and I knew then that he was still alive.
I guess that time was short, too. It seemed endless. Somebody rushed
out, I thought it was a nurse, and handed me one cuff link. I later
read that it was a lady doctor.
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