Doctor Charles "Jim" Carrico

  • Kennedy's Assassination

    Kennedy's Assassination
    Today was the day that I witnessed the wounds of President Kennedy. I was the first doctor who saw Kennedy when he came to the hospital. I was not able to resuscitate President Kennedy. The president spent about thirty minutes in the hospital before he was pronounced dead.
  • Chief of Surgery

    Chief of Surgery
    I came to Seattle in 1974 and became the chief of surgery at Harborview Medical Center.
  • Chairman of Surgery

    Chairman of Surgery
    I became the Chairman of Surgery in 1983 at the University of Washington. Only nine years after I was given the title as the chief of surgery.