Charles R. Baxter
Charles Rufus Baxter was an American medical doctor. Baxter was one of the doctors who unsuccessfully tried to save U.S. President John F. Kennedy after he was shot in Dallas, Texas, in 1963.Biography
Born in Paris, Texas, Baxter graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1950. He then attended the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas where he received his medical degree in 1954.
Baxter was the emergency room director at Parkland Memorial Hospital when Kennedy was shot, and famously said of the event in 1988:
He also operated on Texas Governor John Connally, who had been wounded in the attack.
Baxter made advances in the treatment of burn victims, and founded the burn unit and a skin-graft bank at Parkland.
He died in Dallas, Texas, on March 10, 2005, of pneumonia, aged 75.
