Marion Jenkins; Physician Declared Kennedy Dead
Marion Thomas (Pepper) Jenkins, 77, the physician who declared President John F. Kennedy dead in the emergency room of Dallas’ Parkland Memorial Hospital in 1963. Jenkins, who also treated Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby, was a popular lecturer at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He also improved the practice of anesthesiology. He and a colleague found that by giving an intravenous saline solution to surgical patients with strong blood pressure and pulse, there would be less need for blood transfusions. The method is now used in operating rooms around the world. In Dallas on Monday of cancer.
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