Mr. SPECTER. Was that the total context of the interview?
Dr. CARRICO. Yes, sir.
Mr. SPECTER. Now, did I interview you and take your deposition in
Dallas, Tex., last Wednesday?
Dr. CARRICO. Yes, sir.
Mr. SPECTER. And has that deposition transcript been made available to
you this morning?
Dr. CARRICO. It has.
Mr. SPECTER. And were the views you expressed to me in our conversation
before the deposition and on the record during the course of the
deposition different in any way with the testimony which you have
provided here this morning?
Dr. CARRICO. No, sir; they were not.
Mr. SPECTER. Dr. Carrico, have you changed your opinion in any way
concerning your observations or conclusions about the situation with
respect to President Kennedy at any time since November 22, 1963?
Dr. CARRICO. No.
Mr. SPECTER. Do you have any notes or writings of any sort in your
possession concerning your participation in the treatment of President
Kennedy?
Dr. CARRICO. None other than the letter to my children I mentioned to
you.
Mr. SPECTER. Will you state briefly the general nature of that for the
Commission here today, please.
Dr. CARRICO. This is just a letter written to my children to be read by
them later, saying what happened, how I felt about it. And maybe why it
happened, and maybe it would do them some good later.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you also make a written report which was made a part
of the records of Parkland Hospital which you have identified for the
record during the deposition proceeding?
Dr. CARRICO. Yes; I did.
Mr. SPECTER. Do those constitute the total of the writings which you
made concerning your participation in the treatment of the President?
Dr. CARRICO. Right.
Mr. DULLES. You spoke of a letter to your children. I don't want to
invade your privacy in this respect in any way, but is there anything
in that letter that you think would bear on our considerations here by
this Commission?
Dr. CARRICO. No; I don't believe so. This thing doesn't mention the
treatment other than to say probably by the time they read the letter
it will be archaic.
Mr. DULLES. You spoke about the causes of it all, I don't know
whether----
Dr. CARRICO. Just a little homespun philosophy. I just said that there
was a lot of extremism both in Dallas and in the Nation as a whole, and
in an attitude of extremism a warped mind can flourish much better than
in a more stable atmosphere.
Mr. DULLES. Thank you.
Mr. SPECTER. Dr. Carrico, was the nature of the treatment affected,
in your opinion, in any way by the fact that you were working on the
President of the United States?
Dr. CARRICO. I don't believe so, sir. We have seen a large number of
acutely injured people, and acutely ill people, and the treatment
has been carried out enough that this is almost reflex, if you will.
Certainly everyone was emotionally affected. I think, if anything, the
emotional aspect made us think faster, work faster and better.
Mr. SPECTER. Do you have anything to add which you think would be
helpful to the Commission in its inquiry on the assassination of
President Kennedy?
Dr. CARRICO. No, sir.
Mr. SPECTER. Those conclude my questions, Mr. Chief Justice.
The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Dulles, have you any questions to ask of the Doctor?
Mr. DULLES. Looking back on it, do you think it was probable that death
followed almost immediately after this shot in the head?