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
Mrs. NELSON. As I walked out of trauma room No. 2 I heard someone
calling for stretchers and an orderly ran back into the area and got
a stretcher and ran out of the door, and a few seconds later Governor
Connally, who at that time I did not know who it was but recognized him
as not being the President, arrived and I directed them into trauma
room 2.
Mr. SPECTER. Did the orderly take out one stretcher, or was more than
one stretcher taken out?
Mrs. NELSON. I do not know exactly how many stretchers were taken out
at the time because I was not out at that area.
Mr. SPECTER. Did another stretcher come into the area?
Mrs. NELSON. Yes; immediately behind the Governor another stretcher
was brought back into the emergency room and on this stretcher was
President Kennedy.
Mr. SPECTER. How were you able to identify President Kennedy?
Mrs. NELSON. Well, I could look and see him and tell that it was him.
Mr. SPECTER. What part did you see?
Mrs. NELSON. The--mainly his head.
Mr. SPECTER. Was there any coat covering his face?
Mrs. NELSON. There was a coat thrown across the top of him, not
completely covering his face, and Mrs. Kennedy--do you want me to tell
about Mrs. Kennedy and the flowers?
Mr. SPECTER. Yes; continue. Yes; in answering the questions, Mrs.
Nelson, feel perfectly free to make as full an answer to the
question--I hesitate to have you stop, so that the record we make will
appear continuous and everything may be recorded fully for our record
purposes.
Mrs. NELSON. Mrs. Kennedy was walking beside the stretcher and the
roses that she had been given at the airport were lying on top of the
President and her hat was also lying on top of the President as he was
brought into the emergency room.
Mr. SPECTER. Where was he then taken?
Mrs. NELSON. He was immediately taken into trauma room 1.
Mr. SPECTER. And who, if anyone, was present at that time to attend him
in a medical way?
Mrs. NELSON. Dr. Carrico, a surgical resident was there at the time
that he was brought in, and Dr. Perry, an associate professor of
surgery arrived shortly thereafter, and several doctors arrived, Dr.
Baxter, associate professor of surgery, Dr. Kemp Clark, professor of
neurosurgery and chairman of the department; Dr. Bashour--
Mr. SPECTER. Spell, please.
Mrs. NELSON. B-a-s-h-o-u-r (spelling), chairman of the Department of
Cardiology, and several other doctors who I cannot recall all the names
at the present time.
Mr. SPECTER. Were you present inside of the emergency room where
President Kennedy was taken?
Mrs. NELSON. When what?
Mr. SPECTER. Were you in there at the time they were treating him,
caring for him at any time?
Mrs. NELSON. On one occasion I went into the room and this was mainly
to ask Mrs. Kennedy if she had rather wait out in the hallway rather
than in the room where they were treating the President, and I was told
by the Secret Service agent that she may stay in there if she wished.
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