minutes after being shot JFK arrived at Trauma Room one and was treated by Dr. McClelland

Program Title: Living History: Dr. Robert McClelland emergency surgeon who worked on wounded President Kennedy
Description: Tonight living history. Parkland Hospital Trauma Room One surgeon Dr. Robert N. McClelland joins us. Tonight we begin our month long series of 1st person witnesses and the JFK assassination.

It has been 46 years since the young president, husband to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and father of two: John Jr. and Caroline, was gunned down in broad daylight at high noon on the streets of Dallas. The world has a filmed record of the assassination called the Zupruder Film that most everyone has seen. But what did the 1st person witnesses see?

Dr McClelland takes us back in time directly into Trauma Room One in Parkland Hospital, just minutes after the shots rang out in Dealey Plaza. When Kennedy arrived he was not dead, the back of his skull was gone but there was a heartbeat and he was struggling to breath. Through Dr. McClelland’s eyes he takes us directly beside the head of the fatally wounded President of the United States John Kennedy as he lay dying on an emergency room gurney.

Dr. McClelland has been called upon to testify to the American government’s Warren Commission in 1964, the US House select Commission on Assassinations 1978 (who’s conclusion found a conspiracy in the murder of JFK) and on a PBS Front Line exposé on the assassination. Over the years, Dr. McClelland has come to believe that what the Warren Commission presented was a lie and offers his own perspective and theory as to what took place that day November 22, 1963.

Tonight the true story of Dr. Robert McClelland emergency room surgeon who was in Trauma room one that day, pulling out all the stops to resuscitate and to try and save the life of that young president John F. Kennedy. Tonight we present that true life testament by none other than Dr. Robert McClelland himself. Folks it doesn't get any more real than this. Strap in and hang on here we go

Host(s): Brent Holland
Featured Speakers/Guests: Robert McClelland, M.D. is a 1954 graduate of The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Following his internship at the University of Kansas Medical Center and two years of military service in the Air Force in Germany, he completed his residency in general surgery at Parkland Memorial Hospital where he attended to President John F. Kennedy in the Emergency room and also attended Lee Oswald two days later. He then completed a one-year fellowship in splanchnic hemodynamics with Dr. Fouad Bashour, in the Department of Internal Medicine, at UT Southwestern in Dallas. He was appointed to the faculty of UT Southwestern Medical Center in 1962 and is the first faculty member to hold the Alvin Baldwin Jr. Chair in Surgery, an endowment designated for support of surgical education. His primary interests lie in gastrointestinal surgery and in postgraduate medical education. As originator and editor of Audio-Journal Review General Surgery and Selected Readings in General Surgery, his influence as a medical educator extends beyond the department into surgical training programs throughout the country.

Credits: (C) Muisc, research, text, guest booking, etc. Brent Holland

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