Presented by Dr. Robert Nelson McClelland, Professor Emeritus, Surgery, UT Southwestern and Gary Mack, 6th Floor Museum Curator

The grassy knoll. The magic bullet theory. The Texas School Book Depository. All of these things remind us of Dallas’ most infamous day, the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in November of 1963. Now hear from a man who was there, not sitting in Dealey Plaza watching the President’s motorcade, but in Parkland Hospital just before 1 P.M. when a “moribund” President Kennedy was wheeled into the O.R.

Join fellow Meridian: Global Young Professionals on Tuesday, January 24 to hear the unique viewpoint of Dr. Bob McClelland as he tells his story of that day, and the eerily coincidental events that followed, as he literally held the President’s life in his hands. Watching the events unfold firsthand and being one of the first individuals to see the president after he was shot, Dr. McClelland brings a one-of-a-kind perspective of what really happened that afternoon in downtown Dallas.

Currently a Professor Emeritus of Surgery at University of Texas Southwestern, Dr. McClelland will address Meridian members at none other than the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, the same location where Lee Harvey Oswald is presumed to have fired the fatal shots. Join us for this once in a lifetime opportunity, and relive November 22, 1963 with one of its most important eye witnesses.