The surgeon who treated John F Kennedy shortly after he was fatally shot in Dallas has died at the age of 80, according to dpa. Dr Malcolm Oliver Perry II passed away on Saturday in a hospice in Tyler, Texas, after a battle with lung cancer, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center said Tuesday. Perry was the first surgeon to attend to Kennedy on November 22, 1963, moments after the 35th president was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital. He performed a tracheotomy hoping it would help Kennedy breathe. Kennedy was ultimately declared dead from a gunshot wound to his head. His motorcade was travelling through Dallas when a sniper, Lee Harvey Oswald, opened fire. Two days later, Perry was one of the doctors who treated Oswald after he was gunned down by Jack Ruby and subsequently died. Perry was professor emeritus at Southwestern Medical Center.
