Doctor: Back brace may have cost JFK his life
President John F. Kennedy was wearing a back brace on the day he died. If he wasn't, he might have lived, claims the doctor who tended to the president in the emergency room at Dallas' Parkland Hospital.
For years Kennedy suffered from severe back pain. He took pills and received shots regularly to numb the pain, according to a biography by Robert Dallek, who reviewed the president's medical records. The pain was so severe, Dallek notes, that Kennedy couldn't put a sock or shoe on his left foot without help.
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