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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...m.37afff4.html
My friends and I think this falls under the category of Bizarre and Off-beat News.
First of all, there is a photo from 1963 of the room where Kennedy was treated and which cannot be touched or seen by the public since the government took possession of it.
From the article, in case it is archived soon:
QUOTE :
"A piece of JFK assassination history now lies buried in the most unlikely of places: a former limestone quarry in Kansas.
<!-- Refer ends here -->It is the end – at least for now – in the long and sometimes strange journey of Parkland Memorial Hospital Trauma Room No. 1, where President John F. Kennedy died on Nov. 22, 1963.
The entire room was purchased by the federal government." SNIP
QUOTE: "It was dismantled and the contents – all of them, the examination table, clocks, floor tiling, lockers, trash cans, surgical instruments, gloves, cotton balls, even a towel dispenser – were placed in a locked vault in a Fort Worth warehouse run by the National Archives and Records Administration." END QUOTE
The reason the strangely stored operating room is newsworthy now is because it has been moved to a 600,000 square foot underground National Archives location which resembles an underground bunker near Kansas City, in pieces.
It should be noted here that both the Kansas underground facility and the Fort Worth facility archive only documents only, not artifacts and certainly not rooms. Parkland's operating room where Kennedy was taken for attempted resuscitation is the lone exception. Most of the archived documents in both locations are also accessible to the public for research.
It is stated by the government that the oddly-shaped items were too bulky to fit into the "more modern" warehouse.
However, IMO, I think the items were forgotten over time in a locked vault inside the huge warehouse facility. Probably only very few people even knew what was in the vault as the years passed.
But when the Fort Worth facility was relocating last fall, the vault was no longer hidden and forgotten and the security that the government wants to maintain of the operating suite was compromised by the knowledge that it was stored in the Dallas- Fort Worth area. The dismantled room and contents had to be moved to a former huge underground quarry, now a secured government underground facility in Lenexa, Kansas known as The Caves.
Out of Texas, out of sight, out of mind...
QUOTE from an employee of the National Archives and Records Administration: "Basically, it's ( the room) not to be examined, not to be shown to the press, not to be photographed, not to be exhibited to the public." END QUOTE
IMO, the entire article is interesting in the fact that the federal government is still going to extreme measures to prevent even adademic historians from viewing any part of the Operating Room contents. What could be learned at this late date? Possibly nothing, but then, why does the government go to so much trouble to keep floor and ceiling tiles and towel dispensers?
The contents, mainly the surgical instruments, might prove valuable in determining what type of treatment President Kennedy likely received and if extreme medical and surgical interventions were implemented, as has been claimed by doctors, the autopsy pathologists, and Parkland Hospital since Kennedy's assassination in Dallas in 1963. I've read the published version of the autopsy and have seen the diagrams of wound locations. Many of the autopsy findings were attributed to medical/ surgical procedures, including the destruction of the anterior neck gunshot wound, where a tracheostomy incision was said to have been made in the stored Parkland operating room, which was their Trauma Room #1 at the time.
Just another thing in the Kennedy assassination that might make you go " hmmm".
My friends and I think this falls under the category of Bizarre and Off-beat News.
First of all, there is a photo from 1963 of the room where Kennedy was treated and which cannot be touched or seen by the public since the government took possession of it.
From the article, in case it is archived soon:
QUOTE :
"A piece of JFK assassination history now lies buried in the most unlikely of places: a former limestone quarry in Kansas.
<!-- Refer ends here -->It is the end – at least for now – in the long and sometimes strange journey of Parkland Memorial Hospital Trauma Room No. 1, where President John F. Kennedy died on Nov. 22, 1963.
The entire room was purchased by the federal government." SNIP
QUOTE: "It was dismantled and the contents – all of them, the examination table, clocks, floor tiling, lockers, trash cans, surgical instruments, gloves, cotton balls, even a towel dispenser – were placed in a locked vault in a Fort Worth warehouse run by the National Archives and Records Administration." END QUOTE
The reason the strangely stored operating room is newsworthy now is because it has been moved to a 600,000 square foot underground National Archives location which resembles an underground bunker near Kansas City, in pieces.
It should be noted here that both the Kansas underground facility and the Fort Worth facility archive only documents only, not artifacts and certainly not rooms. Parkland's operating room where Kennedy was taken for attempted resuscitation is the lone exception. Most of the archived documents in both locations are also accessible to the public for research.
It is stated by the government that the oddly-shaped items were too bulky to fit into the "more modern" warehouse.
However, IMO, I think the items were forgotten over time in a locked vault inside the huge warehouse facility. Probably only very few people even knew what was in the vault as the years passed.
But when the Fort Worth facility was relocating last fall, the vault was no longer hidden and forgotten and the security that the government wants to maintain of the operating suite was compromised by the knowledge that it was stored in the Dallas- Fort Worth area. The dismantled room and contents had to be moved to a former huge underground quarry, now a secured government underground facility in Lenexa, Kansas known as The Caves.
Out of Texas, out of sight, out of mind...
QUOTE from an employee of the National Archives and Records Administration: "Basically, it's ( the room) not to be examined, not to be shown to the press, not to be photographed, not to be exhibited to the public." END QUOTE
IMO, the entire article is interesting in the fact that the federal government is still going to extreme measures to prevent even adademic historians from viewing any part of the Operating Room contents. What could be learned at this late date? Possibly nothing, but then, why does the government go to so much trouble to keep floor and ceiling tiles and towel dispensers?
The contents, mainly the surgical instruments, might prove valuable in determining what type of treatment President Kennedy likely received and if extreme medical and surgical interventions were implemented, as has been claimed by doctors, the autopsy pathologists, and Parkland Hospital since Kennedy's assassination in Dallas in 1963. I've read the published version of the autopsy and have seen the diagrams of wound locations. Many of the autopsy findings were attributed to medical/ surgical procedures, including the destruction of the anterior neck gunshot wound, where a tracheostomy incision was said to have been made in the stored Parkland operating room, which was their Trauma Room #1 at the time.
Just another thing in the Kennedy assassination that might make you go " hmmm".
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