Waltner Remembers the Tragedy that Transformed Our Nation
Dr. Waltner was working the night shift in medical school at Parkland Hospital in Dallas on Thursday, November 21, 1963, when Parkland Hospital was transformed into the focus of the country and the world as doctors pronounced John F. Kennedy dead while others worked to save the life of Texas Governor John Connally.
Two days later, many of those same doctors would work in vain to save the life of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man charged with shooting President Kennedy and Governor Connally as their motorcade made its way through Dallas.
Connally recovered and delivered the graduation address to the Class of 1964. Waltner, a member of the Class of 1965, had many of the attending physicians to Kennedy, Connally and Oswald as Southwestern faculty members.
