Malcolm Perry
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Plano High School
BiographyMalcolm Perry was born in Allen, Collin County, 1929. Educated at the University of Texas he graduated in 1951 with a B.A. This was followed by a course at the Southwestern Medical School and in 1955 he qualified as a doctor. Perry worked as an intern at Letterman Hospital in San Francisco before joining the United States Air Force.
After military service Perry was employed by Parkland Hospital, Dallas, for four years. In 1962 he was appointed an instructor in surgery at the Southwestern Medical School. In September, 1963, Perry was appointed as assistant professor of surgery and vascular consultant for Parkland Hospital and John Smith Hospital in Fort Worth.
When John F. Kennedy was shot on 22nd November, 1963, he was taken to Parkland Hospital and was treated by Dr. Perry. He performed a tracheotomy over the small wound in Kennedy's throat, therefore inadvertently destroying crucial evidence concerning the direction of the bullet that hit the president. At the press conference that followed the death of Kennedy, Perry stated that he thought the throat hole looked like an entrance wound.
When interviewed by the Warren Commission Perry admitted he had changed his mind and now thought that a "full jacketed bullet without deformation passing through the skin would leave a similar wound for an exit and entrance wound and with the facts which you have made available and with these assumptions, I believe that it was an exit wound."
Perry later became chief of vascular surgery at New York-Cornell Hospital in Manhattan (1978-1988). He is currently professor emeritus at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.
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