Arrival at Parkland

12:36 p.m.

The presidential limousine arrives at Parkland Hospital

Within six minutes of the shooting in Dealey Plaza, the presidential limousine carrying President John F. Kennedy and Governor John Connally arrived at the Emergency Room entrance to Parkland Memorial Hospital. A team of doctors worked in vain to save the life of the president. Dr. Ronald C. Jones and Dr. Robert N. McClelland, two of the physicians who contributed to the president’s treatment, will share their memories from the weekend of November 22, 1963, in Parkland Hospital.

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the casket the was chosen for Kennedy’s transport from Parkland Memorial in Dallas was the “Brittania” model from the Elgin Casket Company, which was huge, made of solid bronze, and weighed over 700 pounds. It was chosen by Vernon Orneal, who owned a funeral home near Parkland, who assumed he would be in charge of the conserving and surface work. He was disappointed, as the body was to be flown directly to Washington. The casket was accidentally damaged by secret service agents loading it into Air Force One.