Malcolm Perry | |
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Born |
Malcolm Oliver Perry II September 3, 1929 Allen, Texas |
Died | December 5, 2009 Tyler, Texas |
(aged 80)
Cause of death | Lung cancer |
Education |
University of Texas (1951) Southwestern Medical School (1955) |
Occupation | Physician / surgeon |
Known for | Attending to John F. Kennedy at Parkland Memorial Hospital on November 22, 1963 |
Malcolm Oliver Perry II (September 3, 1929 – December 5, 2009) was an American physician and surgeon. Perry was one of the doctors who attended to President John F. Kennedy at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas, on 22 November 1963 after Kennedy was shot. Two days later, he attended to Kennedy's alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald after he was shot.
Perry was born in Allen, Texas on September 3, 1929. He was raised by his grandfather, Malcolm Oliver Perry I. Perry graduated from Plano High School in 1947 and went on to the University of Texas at Austin. Following his school life in 1951 with a Bachelor of Arts, Perry went to Southwestern Medical School, becoming a Medical Doctor in 1955. Perry did his internship at Letterman Hospital in San Francisco, California, for a year, before joining the United States Air Force for two years. Perry was stationed at Geiger Field in Spokane, Washington.
Following his military duties, Perry worked at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas, for four years as a general surgical resident, although from September 1962 to September 1963, he traveled to the University of California at San Francisco to study vascular surgery. During that time, he became board certified by the American Board of Surgery.