Surgeon who operated on JFK in Dallas dies

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Dr. Charles R. Baxter, one of the doctors who tried to save President John F. Kennedy after he was shot in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, has died. He was 75.

The surgeon died Thursday of pneumonia at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, where he had been professor emeritus of surgery since 1993.

Baxter was a 34-year-old assistant professor of the Dallas medical school and director of the emergency room at Parkland Memorial Hospital when Kennedy was brought to the hospital.

Baxter and his colleagues tried to stabilize Kennedy, working to stop the bleeding and make it possible for him to breathe. "As soon as we realized we had nothing medical to do, we all backed off from the man with a reverence that one has for one's president," Baxter said in 1988. "And we did not continue to be doctors from that point on. We became citizens again, and there were probably more tears shed in that room than in the surrounding hundred miles."

surrounding the Kennedy assasination.

...but they finally got to him.;)

all the people involved in anyway to the Kennedy assasination will be dead. I know I'm going out on a limb here but I just have a hunch. :D