Uncut Interview - JFK's Emergency Room Doctor : Dr. Robert McClelland

Q: Can you describe your relationship with Dr. Malcolm Perry III? Q: Could you describe his professional reputation? Q: And did you ever talk about his grandfather? Q: Did he ever talk about anything about his uh, country, uh, (studder) how he practiced medicine? As he was known, he could get from point A to point B pretty quickly. Q: And so you grew up in Gilmer? A: Yes. Q: And you mentioned that your grandfather was a horse and buggy

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. Q: And tell us the story of him, returning asleep on the horse. Q: Mmm. What were you doing on the morning of November 22, 1963?

Q: And then you went to the

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. Q: When you said 'strengthen yourself', did you feel anxiety? Q: So, because of the lunch hour and because of prior arrangements with senior staff to be in Galveston, several of the senior staff were not there. Q: And what was it? After seeing Mrs. Kennedy, when did she see the President? Q: It must have been an incredible moment. Q: When can you tell us why Dr. Perry chose to perform the tracheostomy? Q: And uh, Dr. Perry had told me (I'd just like you to say it) that the first bullet had missed the carotid artery and the spine, which gave him a little hope for a while. he could sell to save his life.

Q: And uh, you noticed the head injury. Q: And it was (I forgot the name of the other part of the brain that controls breathing). Cerebellum. The part of the brain that controls breathing. Q: Tell us how the marrow kept the president alive. Q: And at what point did he realize that this was useless? Q: And how did Mrs. Kennedy find out that her husband (had died)? Q: As I understand it, she asked that the nation not be informed that she had died until her last rites. Q: Can you talk about that? Q: Were the last rites administered while you were there?

Q: Who? Then Dr. Clark told Mrs. Kennedy that her husband had died. Q: As I remember from the camera images, when she left the hospital she was very calm. Q: We all handle pain differently and for how long? What did they do with the president's body after his death? Q: So no autopsy was performed here in Dallas? Q: How has this event changed your life? Q: Did you have any interactions with Mrs. Kennedy before, during or after? Q: Mmm. Did you notice any brain matter? Did it carry any brain matter? Q: Did you ever hear from Mrs.

Kennedy afterward? Q: Or any of the

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s you know. Q: Um, did you see Vice President Johnson then? Q: Was he? Q: Is there anything I should have asked but didn't? Q: How did growing up in Gilmer prepare you for that day? Q: How did growing up in Gilmer prepare you for that day? Q: Have you ever been threatened? Q: Dr. Perry, I thought, and I may be wrong because I didn't take any notes. Q: I thought he deduced that that was the case. Q: Uh, was your family ever threatened? You see, he left the state of Texas after this happened.

Q: And she went to New York to practice medicine and retired in Texas. Q: I thought he told me that he left because he didn't feel safe. Q: I may be wrong. Q: Now it's on television (studders), it's poor filming, I've seen the images. Q: That afternoon and he described a little bit about... and he made some kind of mistake and I don't know what it was. Q: But everyone jumped on it, AH HA! He, and the truth is that he was 34 years old, simply had a traumatic situation, something that none of us ever faced, and if he was wrong in telling what happened, big deal as far as I'm concerned, big deal, but what was this?

Did that footage conflict with what really happened? Q: And then he changed his testimony that he was coming from behind. Q: Where do you think he came from? Q: Well, I can thank you enough for sharing his testimony of the story because I think about what we could have had if they

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ed the doctors after President Lincoln died. No one seems to

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them or they didn't talk or they didn't. or whatever, now there were people who shared their stories of what they thought had happened, but I don't remember some, but I don't remember this type of interview with any doctor.

And he lived all night. Possibly with the present. Surgery, they could have saved him...he lived that long, but I've never read a full, you know, detailed medical analysis, this gives us insight into this assassination that the American public will never have about President Lincoln. (off camera) Governor Connally? Oh, we forgot the next parts. Did you operate on Governor Connally? Q: Governor Connally was a friend of my father's and, like Dr. Perry, he didn't really like to talk about the assassination. But he once told my father that if the bullet had been at a little bit of an angle, a little bit different, it could have hit his heart or his lung or something like that.

And now tell us that was the end of your weekend, tell us about the Sunday when you read Harvey Oswald. Q: And when he got to the hospital, I think Dr. Perry helped him with that surgery as well. Q: Was there a moment when you thought you could save him? Q: As I recall, Dr. Perry said he was in surgery for 30 minutes maybe, 45, I don't remember, but he tied, what is the medical term is suture, suture this laceration and is that the correct term? I sutured this last and said we just couldn't close it fast enough because he was still bleeding so much.

Q: And that bullet just, this is not the term he used, but it really lacerated a lot of glasses. Q: And this is where you think differently about the Warren Commission report.