Q: Can you describe your relationship with
Dr. Malcolm Perry III? Q: Could you describe his
professional reputation? Q: And did he ever talk about his grandfather? Q: Did he ever talk about some of his uh, country, uh, (studder) how he practiced medicine? Cuz he was known to, he could get from point A to point B pretty fast. Q: And so you grew up in Gilmer? A: Yes. Q: And you mentioned that your grandfather was a horse and buggy doctor. Q: And tell us the story about him, coming back on the horse asleep. Q: Um. What were you doing the morning of November 22, 1963? Q: And, so you went to the room. Q: When you say 'force yourself', were you feeling anxiety? Q: So during, because of the lunch hour and because of previous arrangements with the senior staffer to be in Galveston, a number of the senior staffers were not there. Q:And, what was, after you saw Mrs. Kennedy when did you see the President? Q: It must have been an awesome moment. Q: When you, uh, can you tell us why Dr. Perry elected to do the tracheotomy. Q: And uh, Dr. Perry had told me (I'd just like you to say it) that the first bullet had avoided the carotid artery and his
spinal column which gave him a little bit of hope for a little bit of time
that he could sell save his life. Q: And uh, you noticed the head wound. Q: And was, (I forgot the name of the other part of the brain that controls the breathing.) Cerebellum. The part of the brain that controls the breathing. Q: Tell us how the medulla was keeping the president alive. Q: And at what point did ya'll realize this was a futile... Q: and how did Mrs. Kennedy find out that her husband (had passed)? Q: As I understand it, she asked that the nation not be informed that he had died until the last rites. Q: Can you talk about that? Q: The last rites, were they administered while you were there? Q: Who, so Dr. Clark told Mrs. Kennedy that her husband had passed away. Q: As I recall on the camera footage when she left the hospital she was very composed. Q: We all handle grief differently and uh, how long, what did they do with the Presidents body after he died? Q: So no autopsy was performed here in Dallas? Q: How has this event changed your life? Q: Did uh, uh, you have any interactions with Mrs. Kennedy before or during or after? Q: Um. Did you notice any brain matter? Was she carrying any brain matter? Q: Did you ever hear from Mrs. Kennedy afterwards? Q: Or any of the doctors that you know of. Q: Um, did you see then Vice President Johnson at all? Q: He was? Q: Is there anything I should have asked and 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: Were you ever threatened? Q: Dr. Perry, I thought, and I may be
mistaken because I didn't take any notes. Q: I thought he inferred that he had been. Q: Uh, was his family ever threatened? You see he left the state of Texas after this occurred. Q: And went up to New York to practice medicine and retired back in Texas Q: I thought he told me
that he left because he did not feel safe. Q: I might be mistaken. Q: Now he went on television (studders), it's poor filming, I've seen the footage. Q: that afternoon and described a little bit about the..and he made a mistake of some sort and I don't know what it was. Q: But everybody jumped on that, AH HA! he, and the truth is he was 34 years old he just had a traumatic situation something that none of us were ever faced and if he made a mistake
telling what happened big deal as far as I'm concerned big deal but what was
it this was conflicting with that footage with what really happened? Q: And then later changed the testimony that it came in from the back. Q:Where do you think it came in from? Q:Well I can thank you enough for sharing your eyewitness to history because I think of what we could
have had with if they interview doctors after President Lincoln had died you know
nobody seems to interview them or they wouldn't talk or didn't or whatever now
there were people who shared their stories of what they thought happened
but I don't recall there some but I don't recall like this kind of interview
with any of the doctor And he lived all through the night Possibly with modern day surgery they could have saved him ... he lived so long but I've never read a full medical, you know, detailed analysis of, this gives us an insight into this assassination that the American public will never have about President Lincoln. (off camera) Governor Connally? Oh we forgot the next few parts, did you operate at all on Governor Connally? Q: Governor Connally was a friend of my father's
and like Dr. Perry he really didn't like talking about the assassination. But he did
tell my father one time, he said if the bullet would have been just a little angled just a little
bit different it might have hit his heart or his lung or something. And now tell
us that that was the end of your weekend tell us about Sunday when Lee Harvey
Oswald. Q: And when you got to the hospital did you ever, I think Dr. Perry also assisted with that surgery. Q: Was there ever a point where you thought you might be able to save him? Q:As I recall Dr. Perry said he was in surgery 30 minutes maybe, 45, I don't remember but he would tie up, what's the medical term is a
suture, suture this laceration and is that the correct term? Suture this
last and he said just we couldn't get him closed off fast enough because he kept bleeding so much. Q: And that bullet just, this is not the term he used, but really lacerated so many vessels. Q: And this is where you're thinking different from the Warren Commission's report.
