Mr. Specter. And, in what year did you graduate from medical school?
Dr. Akin. 1961.
Mr. Specter. And how old are you at the present time, Doctor?
Dr. Akin. Thirty-four.
Mr. Specter. Did you have occasion to render assistance to President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963?
Dr. Akin. Briefly.
Mr. Specter. Would you state how you came to be called into the case?
Dr. Akin. I was notified while I was on duty in the operating suite of the hospital that anesthesia assistance was needed in the emergency room. President Kennedy supposedly had been shot and had been brought to the emergency room, and I immediately went down the back elevator to the emergency room to see if I could be of assistance, and when I walked in, a tracheotomy was being performed. President Kennedy still had an endotracheal tube, an oro-tracheal tube in place, and the connector from this to the Bird respirator was removed. The anesthesia machine had been simultaneously rolled into the room and Dr. Jenkins connected the anesthesia machine to the oro-tracheal tube and it stayed there for a brief period, until the tracheotomy tube was placed in the tracheotomy, at which time I connected the breathing tubes from the anesthesia machine to the tracheotomy and held this in place while Dr. Jenkins controlled the ventilation with 100-percent oxygen from the anesthesia machine.
Mr. Specter. Did you assist Dr. Jenkins then in his work?
Dr. Akin. Only insofar as I held the endotracheal connector in place into the tracheotomy tube.