Jacqui malouf biography of abraham

"Oh, they're bringing them in. They've all been shot!'" It was the scream of a secretary rushing into the cafeteria of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, the beginning of a series of days that Malouf Abraham will never forget.

Today, the 72-year-old is a retired allergy doctor, who spends part of his time as a Sarasota resident.

Forty-eight years ago — on Nov. 22, 1963 — Abraham was 24, the youngest of his 85 classmates at the teaching hospital for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.

A dying President John F.

Kennedy — shot by assassin Lee Harvey Oswald only 10 minutes earlier — had just arrived in his blood-stained limousine.

Abraham, now one of a shrinking group on hand that day, would see the president's limousine before it was scrubbed by Secret Service agents.

His friend at the hospital would help console a shocked Jackie Kennedy minutes before she was informed of her husband's death.

Only a week before Ke