Mr. Specter. What was the condition of the President when you arrived?
Dr. Giesecke. There was a great deal of blood loss which was apparent when he came in the room—the cart was covered with blood and there was a great deal of blood on the floor. There was—I could see no spontaneous motion on the part of the President. In other words, he made no movement during the time that I was in the room. As I moved around towards the head of the emergency cart with the anesthesia machine and the resuscitative equipment and helped Dr. Jenkins to hook the anesthesia machine up to the President to give him oxygen, I noticed that he had a very large cranial wound, with loss of brain substance, and it seemed that most of the bleeding was coming from the cranial wound.
Mr. Specter. What did you observe specifically as to the nature of the cranial wound?
Dr. Giesecke. It seemed that from the vertex to the left ear, and from the browline to the occiput on the left-hand side of the head the cranium was entirely missing.
Mr. Specter. Was that the left-hand side of the head, or the right-hand side of the head?
Dr. Giesecke. I would say the left, but this is just my memory of it.
Mr. Specter. That's your recollection?
Dr. Giesecke. Right, like I say, I was there a very short time—really.
Mr. Specter. Did you observe any other wound or bullet hole below the large area of missing skull?
Dr. Giesecke. No; when I arrived the tracheotomy was in progress at that time and so I observed no other wound except the one on the cranium.