Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 236, Decatur, Adams County, 6 October 1964 — Page 8

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WARREN REPORT Death Was Caused By Second Bullet

EDITOR’S NOTE: Following is the third tn a series of special dispatches dealing with the rumors about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the manner in which the Warren Commialion dealt with them. By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press International WASHINGTON (UW —How many times was President Kennedy hit by bullets from the rifle of Lee Harvey Oswald? Would Kennedy have lived, after a bullet through the throat, if he had not been hit in the head? These and many other questions confronted the Warren Commission as it delved into the circumstances of the assassination of America's young Chief Executive in Dallas, Tex., last Nov. 22. From examination of the commission’s report and information supplied by more than 500 witnesses, only one fair and reasonable conclusion can be reached: The first shot to strike Kennedy passed through fleshy tissues of his shoulder and throat, and would not have been classed under ordinary circumstances as a death-deal-*ing wound. The second shot was another and lethal matter. The bullet from a 6-5 Mannlicher-Carcano At-Home Charmer Printed Pattern |\ '•I /Il ~ finni i/iiii \ x/y f ill \rl 111 I • ’ IP n lir|t 1l pF *i if '■ i 1 in i*7 /w/mli I /y« t ji I 9167 ' ; ’l \.• SIZES 10-20 ' Princess-pretty duster, smock or unlined coat. It’s shaped away from the waist just like this season's most elegaht fashions, Easysew. ‘ Printed Pattern 9157: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, », 20 Size 16 requires 4% yards 35-inch fabric. FIFTY CENTS in coins for this pattern — add 15 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing and special handling. Send to Marian Martin, Decatur Daily Democrat Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11. N. Y. Print plainly Name, Address with Zone, Size and Style Number. FREE PATTERN DIRECT TO YOUR DOOR-—choose it from 300 design ideas in new Fall-Winter Catalog i School, casual, career, dressy styles —all sizes I Send 50c.

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rifle fired, according to the commission, by Oswald, tore a section of blood, brain tissue and bone measuring about five inches at its widest rupture from the President's head. Third Shot Academic The third shot be’comes somewhat academic at this point. Kennedy was killed — and, for ordinary medical records, instantly — when the head shot knocked him ovefr in the rear of the White House convertible. For the simple reason that doctors, confronted by a patient of presidential status, want to do every.hing possible to save his life, the medicine men of Parkland Hspital in Dallas tried Just about every known medical technique to hold him in a condition that might be called living. These physicians would have done as much for any emergency patient, but the split-sec-ond admission of a president as a bullet wound victim keyed up the entire staff of the soFIRST LADY (Continued from Page One) Mrs. John Citizens who live in our communities. "This convinces me of something I have always believed—that there is, in this Southland, more love than hate. "I think we all understand that the hard duty of assuring equal and constitutional right to all Americans falls not only on the President of the United States, but upon all who love this land. J am sure we will rise to that duty.” The Texas-born First Lady spoke of the "strain in the South from national life” and said she shared the "concern that has come with this strain.” *T share the irritation when unthinking people make snide Jokes about 'cornpone' and 'red necks' as if the history and tradition of our region could be dismissed with ridicule," she said. "Eor the good of the country,” she said. "we must search for the ties that bind us together but not settle for the tensions that tnd to divide us. "We are a nation of laws, not men, a‘nd our greatness is our ability to adjust to the national consensus.” Sen. Humphrey FkdgssAid To The Needy ST. LOUIS (liPI) - Democratic vic* presidential candidate Hubert H. Humphrey promised today that a JohnsonHumphrey administration would never be Indifferent to the plight of the needy. Humphrey made the statement in a speech prepared for delivery before the National Conference of Catholic Charities in St, Louis. His appearance at the meeting touched off some criticism among conference participants. Charles S. Lamy, president of St. Louis Catholic Charlities, said the Minnesota senator's appearance "puts the conference in the position of being used as a political platform." But Msgr. Raymond J. Gallagher of Washington, D.C., secretary of the National Conference, said Humphrey was invited "because he had Just released a book on poverty in which he took some original approaches to this problem.”

called trauma section of the huge Dallas hospital. When It was over and the emotionally-drained staff tore off their operating room' masks and began the dull business of filling out myriad forms which must accompany the death of any citizen, the emergency room doctors and their aides blew on filter cigarets and argued a point: Could they have saved Kennedy? Knew The Answer Truthfully, they knew then what the Warren Commission brought out publicly 10 months later. The answer: No. After being hit by the first bullet in th*, back — with the slug emerging through the front of his throat and into the body of Gov. John Cohnally of Texas — the President then took a , second slug. It tore away right posterior brain - and bone tissue in the head. By any medical standards, this is a massive wound. Patients so damaged simply do not recover. This language did not occur in the Warren report, but a member of the Parkland Hospital staff said at the time, "any other patient would have been booked as ‘dead on arrival.' The commission in its meticulous drafting of the report acknowledged many rumors surrounding the medical treatment of the fallen Chief Executive. But under the leadership of Chief Justice Earl Warren, there could be only one conclusion: The President received the best medical care possible and the doctors, for practical purposes, were defeated the moment Kennedy’s inert body was brought into the hospital. Emotionally Exhausted The physicians — ranging from brain surgeons to studious residents — were exhausted emotionally when their chief. Dr. Kemp Clark, chief of neurological services at the hospital, decided that further efforts to spark life into the bullet - ridden Chief Executive were useless. Long after Lyndon B. Johnson acceeded to the presidency, rumors persisted to the fuzzy effect that Kennedy's life might have been saved with more prompt, more effective medical procedures. The report does not bear out such speculation. The finest practioners of medical science could not have restored life to Kennedy. The brain damage was too much. There was a minor variance among attending doctors about the actual time of death. The official death certificate placed the moment of expiration at 1 p.m. CST, Nov. 22, 1963. But this was more or less an arbitrary time. The report said ; Time Was Approximate "The time was fixed at 1 p.m. as an approximation' since -it was impossible to determine the precise moment when life Two Decatur Students Enrolled At DePauw GREENCASTLE, Ind. — Two Qecatui; . scents haw . enrolled, for the fall semester at 'DePauw’ University. They are senior Jeanie Cook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Edward H. Cook, Decatur route 1, and sophomore Darnel H. Heller, son of Mr. and Mrs Robert Heller, 404 Limberlost. Beginning its 128th academic year, DePauw is a* coeducational liberal arts college with a total enrollment this year of over 2,300 students from approximately 40 states and IT foreign countries. Former Geneva Lady Is Taken By Death Mrs. Elizabeth Hiland, 85, former Geneva resident, died at a nursing home in Anderson. There are no immediate survivors. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Hardy A Hardy funeral home In Geneva, with burial in West Lawn cemetery. Friends may call after 10 a m. Wednesday. Special Meetings At St. Paul Missionary Tbe Rev. Harvey Ache, formerly of Allentown, Pa., and now residing in Fort Wayne, will be the evangelist in special rrieetW3“ beginning Wednesday at 7 p. m. Rev, Ache is a graduate of the Fort Wayne Bible College and Oklahoma University. He also attended West Virginia University, on an athletic scholarship, where he studied history and coaching. . From J 954 to 1957 he pioneered in’ the* Yahinka tribe uniWest Africa, where he served as a missionary. Here he was the first white man seen by thousands of West Africans. He was forced to leave Africa because of his wife's health and for the past eight years has paltered in Missionary churches. He has spent much of his times working in youth organizations in several denominations. Before entering the evangelistic field he taught French and history at Port Austin, Mich., high school. The meetings will continue each night, except Saturdays, through October 18. There will be special music in each service. The Rev. Robert Welch, pastor of St. Paul’s which is located south on the county farm road, invites a’l to attend these services.

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left the President. President Ken- i nedy could have survived the < neck injury, but the head wound was fatal. “From a medical viewpoint, i President Kennedy was alive i when he arrived at Parkland Hospital; the doctors observed < that he had a heart beat and *t was making some (agonal) respiratory efforts. But his condition was hopeless and the extraordinary efforts ot the doctors to save him could not help but to have been unavail- i ing.” The commission coped with rumors and speculation about why the doctors in Dallas did not discover the throat entry wound in the President’s back. This was not found until an autopsy was performed at the Bethesda Naval Hospital . outside Washington. The answer was simple: Kennedy was rolled into the Dallas emergency room face up. The, skilled phsicians knew that, even a remote chance of saving him, two things had to be doner 3 first — pump his lungs to re-®

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store breathing and introduction of fluid blood and plasma. Patient Was Dead With these and other techniques in operations the doctors saw irrefutable evidence that their patient was dead. Extraneous wounds then became the concern of the autopsy men. A sheet was pulled over the President’s face. Not long after, his body was switched to a casket for the flight back to Washington and the doctors sat down wearily to write their reports. Had the victim been some slum-bum, the reports might have been in less detail. But the end results were the same. The best medical team that could be put together in Dallas could not save Kennedy's life. Nor could this victory been won by any combination of doctors, anywhere. President Kennedy received the best possible medical care. B"t his assassin, with a 6.5 rifle, made the most expert medical treatment rather aca--1 demic.

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