page_title: Parkland Memorial Hospital
section_title: John F. Kennedy assassination
hierarchical_section_title: Parkland Memorial Hospital / History / John F. Kennedy assassination
caption_attribution_description: English: This is the plaque that indicates the precise location of Parkland Hospital's Trauma Room I bed on November 22, 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was taken there.
context_page_description: Parkland Memorial Hospital is a hospital in Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the main hospital of the Parkland Health & Hospital System and serves as Dallas County's public hospital. It is located within the Southwestern Medical District.
context_section_description: Parkland is best known as the hospital where four individuals associated with the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy either died or were pronounced dead: President Kennedy himself, his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby who later killed Oswald, and Abraham Zapruder, who had filmed Kennedy‘ s assassination. The 2013 film Parkland dramatizes the deaths of Kennedy and Oswald in the hospital.
  After he was shot on November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was rushed to Parkland, where he was pronounced dead at 1:00 p.m. in Trauma Room 1, 30 minutes after he was shot at Dealey Plaza. At the same time, Texas governor John Connally, wounded in the same shooting, was treated in Trauma Room 2, and survived. Two days after the assassination, November 24, Oswald was rushed to Parkland after being shot in the abdomen by Ruby and died in operating room #5 after over 90 minutes of surgery. Ruby died on January 3, 1967 in the same emergency department, from a pulmonary embolism associated with lung cancer. Then, on August 30, 1970, Zapruder also died at Parkland.
  Since Ruby's death in 1967, areas where Kennedy was pronounced dead and Oswald was operated on have been remodeled. A plaque there marks the location where Trauma Room 1 was previously in the prior Parkland. Parkland's JFK history wall is noted at the new hospital.
caption: The John F. Kennedy plaque in Parkland's Radiology Department marks the location of the Trauma Room I bed in 1963.
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