Dr. Malcolm Oliver Perry, II

A Culpepper Descendant and Surgeon who Attended President John F. Kennedy after his 1963 shooting in Dallas

Malcolm Oliver Perry II, was born and raised in Allen, Collin Co, TX. He was four years old when his father was killed in an accident. Dr. Perry went on to earn his B. A. from the University of Texas in 1951 and his M.D. from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, in 1955. He then interned at Letterman Army Hospital in San Francisco, CA while he was serving in the U.S. Air Force. He left the service with the rank of Captain in 1958. Following this, Dr. Perry did his residency in surgery at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, TX until 1962. In 1962, Dr. Perry remained at Parkland Memorial Hospital but he also became a fellow in vascular surgery at the University of California in San Francisco and an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Texas in Dallas, TX.

At this point, Dr. Perry found himself at the crossroads of history. When President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, TX on Nov. 22, 1963, Dr. Perry was one of the attending physicians in the Parkland Memorial Hospital emergency room.

A summary of the events at the hospital was written by Kemp Clark, M.D., Director, Service of Neurological Surgery at the hospital. That summary is included as part of Appendix VIII, "Medical Reports From Doctors at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Tex." from the Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy a.k.a. The Warren Report.

Dr. Perry's handwritten Parkland Memorial Hospital Admission Note was included as Commission Exhibit No. 392 and Dr. Perry was one of the doctors called to testify before the Commission because of the controversy about the direction and number of bullets that had hit the President. Dr. Perry's observations and testimony were included in Chapter III of the Medical Examiner's Report.

After this life changing experience, Dr. Perry then continued with his medical career becoming chief of vascular surgery in 1967 and a professor of surgery in 1971. In 1974, Dr. Perry became a professor of surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. In 1978, he became a professor of surgery and chief of vascular surgery at Cornell University Medical College in New York, NY. In 1987, Dr. Perry went on to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, TN. In 1991, he was made chief of vascular surgery at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, TX. And currently (Jan 1999), he is back in Dallas at the St. Paul Medical Center, Department of Surgery.

Dr. Perry is the son of Kent Cannon Perry, son of Malcolm Oliver Perry, son of John Wesley Perry and Martha Louisa D. Culpepper, daughter of William Henry Culpepper.

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Source: Lew Griffin. Edited by Warren Culpepper.