Citation

Li GZ, Duke JH, Pappas TN. J. Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015; 79(5): 877-883.

Affiliation

From the Department of Surgery (G.Z.L.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Surgery (J.H.D.), University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas; and Department of Surgery (T.N.P.), Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina. †Deceased August 25, 2015.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/TA.0000000000000859

PMID

26496116

Abstract

On November 22, 1963, the Governor of Texas, John Connally, was injured during the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Multiple authors have documented President Kennedy's injuries, the attempted resuscitation, and the controversies surrounding these events. However, the injuries sustained by Governor Connally have been overlooked by historians predominantly because of the extraordinary importance of the presidential assassination and its impact on the national consciousness. This review discusses the governor's political life, the mechanism of injury, his medical care, and the role the injuries had on his subsequent public life.

Language: en