The assassination of JFK: A plastic surgery perspective 50 years later

摘要

All of us know where we were on September 11, 2001. I was in the operating room at our university hospital at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in disbelief of the events in New York City, the Pentagon, and aboard Flight 93 over southwestern Pennsylvania. Similarly, I will never forget November 22, 1963: I was a 10-year-old in school in a small, rural North Dakota town when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. I remember both events as if they had happened yesterday. They changed me-and all of us in the United States and the world-forever. Although we may not all be students of history, we are all its children. Directly or indirectly, the events of the past ripple through time and shape our collective futures and destinies. There are just a few historic moments that have changed the modern world and civilization: 1066; 1492; 1776; December 7, 1941; September 11, 2001. This month, we remember November 22, 1963.