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The doctors officially pronounced him dead at 1:00 pm Novemeber 22, 1963; half an hour after he was shot.

President Kennedy was "checked in" in the official ER log of Parkland Hospital at 12:38 CST. He had a faint heart beat, many patients can have a heart beat with damage to the brain. However, he quickly went into cardiac arrest and died. He was pronounced dead at 1 PM, because Mrs. Kennedy had requested the actual time of death be AFTER the last rites were given to the President by the priests who had been called to come to the ER. The last rites were given BEFORE I PM, and Dr. Perry, one of the treating physicians in the ER, agreed to Mrs. Kennedy's request. That is why the 1 PM "official" time of death.

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