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
Mr. SPECTER. And where were you employed on November 22, 1963?
Miss HENCHLIFFE. Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Mr. SPECTER. And were you notified on that date that the President was
on his way to the hospital?
Miss HENCHLIFFE. No, sir; I didn't know it at the time until later.
Mr. SPECTER. When did you first learn about it, if at all?
Miss HENCHLIFFE. I found out who it was when I went out to get blood.
Mr. SPECTER. About what time of day was that?
Miss HENCHLIFFE. Well. I guess it was about 2 minutes after he came in.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you observe him at some place in the hospital?
Miss HENCHLIFFE. I was working with him in the emergency room.
Mr. SPECTER. Had he arrived in the emergency room when you first
arrived at the site of the emergency room?
Miss HENCHLIFFE. Do what?
Mr. SPECTER. Were you in the area of the emergency room before he came
there?
Miss HENCHLIFFE. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you see him actually wheeled into the emergency room?
Miss HENCHLIFFE. Yes; in fact, I helped wheel him on into trauma room 1.
Mr. SPECTER. And, where was he when you first saw him?
Miss HENCHLIFFE. He was between trauma rooms 1 and 2.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you see him when he was brought into the hospital
itself?
Miss HENCHLIFFE. At the emergency entrance--no. It was after he came
into the emergency room.
Mr. SPECTER. He came into the emergency area?
Miss HENCHLIFFE. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. And then you saw him and helped wheel him, you say, into
the emergency room No. 1?
Miss HENCHLIFFE. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. And who else was present at the time you first saw him
when he had just come into the emergency area?
Miss HENCHLIFFE. Let me see, I think Dr. Carrico was there--he was
there very shortly after--afterwards.
Mr. SPECTER. He was there when you arrived? Or arrived shortly after
you did?
Miss HENCHLIFFE. Well, actually I went in ahead of the cart with him
and I was the first one in with him, and just in a minute, or seconds,
Dr. Carrico came in.
Mr. SPECTER. And what other doctors arrived, if any?
Miss HENCHLIFFE. Oh, gee. Let's see--there was Dr. Baxter, Dr. Perry,
and you want all of them that were in the room?
Mr. SPECTER. If you can remember them.
Miss HENCHLIFFE. Dr. Kemp Clark, Dr. Jenkins, Dr. Peters, Dr. Crenshaw,
and there was some woman anesthetist that I don't know which--who it
was.
Mr. SPECTER. What did you observe to be the President's condition when
you first saw him?
Miss HENCHLIFFE. I saw him breathe a couple of times and that was all.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you see any wound anywhere on his body?
Miss HENCHLIFFE. Yes, he was very bloody; his head was very bloody when
I saw him at the time.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you ever see any wound in any other part of his body?
Miss HENCHLIFFE. When I first saw him--except his head.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you see any wound on any other part of his body?
Miss HENCHLIFFE. Yes; in the neck.
Mr. SPECTER. Will you describe it, please?
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