The events of Friday 22 November 1963 would pursue Malcolm Perry for the rest of his life. He had been a surgeon for just two months when the dramatic events unfolded and he had a very busy few days. But it was far from over: Perry was called immediately to the operating theatre to operate on Governor Connally, and two days later he was there again, with his hands in Lee Harvey Oswald’s abdomen, trying to stop arterial haemorrhaging.
