Inside Parkland Memorial Hospital

This 1960s footage documents daily happenings at the Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. Surgeons perform an operation, while nurses administer care to hospital patients. Behind the scenes, maintenance staff launder sheets and clean the facilities.Parkland Memorial Hospital achieved notoriety following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. After being shot, Kennedy was rushed to Parkland’s Trauma Room 1. The president, along with his alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Oswald’s assassin, Jack Ruby, all died in the hospital. Today, Parkland honors JFK with a plaque, located where Trauma Room 1 used to be, and a history wall.