Parkland Memorial Hospital
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Parkland Memorial Hospital is a public hospital located in Dallas, Texas. It is the main hospital of the Parkland Health & Hospital System and serves as Dallas County's public hospital. It is located
Parkland Memorial new hospital building dedicated in 2015.
Parkland Hospital (1913-1954)
The plaque in former Parkland's Radiology Department marked the location of Trauma Room I in 1963. This is where JFK was administered the last rites and pronounced dead.
Jack Ruby
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Jack Leon Ruby was an American nightclub owner. He murdered Lee Harvey Oswald two days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He was born in Chicago, and operated nightclubs in Texas.
Parkland Memorial Hospital
…with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy either died or were pronounced dead: President Kennedy himself; his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald; and Jack Ruby who killed Oswald. The 2013 film Parkland dramatizes the deaths of Kennedy and Oswald in the hospital. After he was shot on November 22, 1963, President…
Mug shot of Ruby taken on November 24, 1963
Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Robert H. Jackson of Ruby shooting Oswald, who is flanked by Dallas police detectives Jim Leavelle (left, tan suit) and L. C. Graves (right, black hat, face covered by Ruby)
Ruby after his arrest
Headstone at Ruby's grave in Westlawn Cemetery. The Hebrew text is an abbreviation of tehei nishmaso tserurah bitsror hachaim, "may his soul be bound with the bond of life."