Warren Commission (06 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (06 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Dr. Hunt appears here today in response to a letter requesting that her
deposition be taken, and may the record reflect the additional fact
that Dr. Hunt is a lady doctor.
Would you at this time, Dr. Hunt, stand up and raise your right hand?
Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you give before the
President's Commission in this deposition proceeding will be the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Dr. HUNT. I do, sir.
Mr. SPECTER. Will you state your full name, please?
Dr. HUNT. Jackie Hansen Hunt, H-a-n-s-e-n (spelling).
Mr. SPECTER. And what is your profession?
Dr. HUNT. Medical doctor.
Mr. SPECTER. And, are you duly licensed to practice medicine by the
State of Texas?
Dr. HUNT. I am.
Mr. SPECTER. And in what year were you so licensed?
Dr. HUNT. 1950.
Mr. SPECTER. Will you outline briefly your educational background,
please?
Dr. HUNT. I graduated from medical school at Tulane College of Medicine
in 1949. I had a year of rotating internship followed by a year of
pediatric residency. In 1961 I started a residency in anesthesiology,
which I completed in 1963, and I am now a fellow in anesthesiology.
Mr. SPECTER. Are you board certified, then, Dr. Hunt, at this time?
Dr. HUNT. No.
Mr. SPECTER. Are you working toward board certification?
Dr. HUNT. Yes, I am. I am eligible and will take the first part in June.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you have occasion on November 22 to render medical aid
to the late President Kennedy?
Dr. HUNT. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. Will you relate briefly the circumstances surrounding your
being called into the case?
Dr. HUNT. I was in Parkland Hospital on duty with the anesthesiology
department and was notified by our chief of staff, Dr. M. T. Jenkins,
that the President had been shot. Together with Dr. Giesecke and
Dr. Akin, I got an anesthesia machine and put it on an elevator and
checked it out and set it up on the way to the emergency room and took
it into the emergency room where the President was and he had been
intubated, and I helped Dr. Jenkins connect the anesthesia machine to
the endotracheal tube which at that time was being run, I believe, by
a Bird machine, and after making certain that the connections were
properly done, I placed the equipment in Dr. Jenkins' hands.
Mr. SPECTER. What doctors were present when you arrived there, Dr. Hunt?
Dr. HUNT. Dr. Jenkins, Dr. Malc Perry--quite a number of others--I just
can't remember who was there today.
Mr. SPECTER. Were any nurses present?
Dr. HUNT. Yes--I don't know the names of any of them.
Mr. SPECTER. What, if anything, did you observe as to the condition of
President Kennedy?
Dr. HUNT. The first good look I took at him I noticed that his eyes
were opened and that the pupils were widely dilated and fixed and so I
assumed that he was in essence dead.
Mr. SPECTER. At approximately what time did you arrive in the emergency
room?
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