Parkland Memorial Hospital is a public hospital in Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the main hospital of the Parkland Health & Hospital System and serves as Dallas County's public hospital. It is located within the Southwestern Medical District. The hospital is staffed by the faculty, residents, and medical students of UT Southwestern Medical Center. History The original hospital opened on May 19, 1894, in a wooden building on a meadow located at Oak Lawn Avenue and Maple. The name Parkland came from the land on which the hospital was built, originally purchased by the city as a park. A brick building (the first hospital brick building erected in Texas, now owned by Crow Holdings) replaced the wooden facility in 1913. In 1954, Parkland moved to 5201 Harry Hines Boulevard about a mile from its original site. It's renal dialysis unit opened in 1955, burns unit in 1961, and cardiac intensive care unit in 1969. All services from the campus at Maple Avenue were decommissioned in 1974. The new Parkland tower blocks were redeveloped in 1981, and the triangular wing at the hospital's entrance on Harry Hines Boulevard opened in the late 1980s. On August 20, 2015, Parkland opened a new emergency department and began accepting patients. Construction commenced in 2010. Staff members and patients were transferred throughout the next few days, from 5201 Harry Hines Boulevard to the new hospital located across the street at 5200 Harry Hines Boulevard. The new hospital welcomed its first birth, a boy delivered by Caesarean section, that same morning. The former hospital site on 5201 Harry Hines Boulevard is set for demolition in 2022-23, after closing on July 11, 2022. John F. Kennedy assassination Parkland Hospital is best known as the hospital where five individuals associated with the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy either died or were pronounced dead: President Kennedy himself; his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald; Jack Ruby who later killed Oswald; Abraham Zapruder, who had filmed Kennedy's assassination; and Jean Hill, another witness to the assassination (the "Lady in Red" seen in the Zapruder film). The 2013 film Parkland dramatizes the deaths of Kennedy and Oswald in the hospital. After he was shot on November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was rushed to Parkland, where he was pronounced dead at 1:00 p.m. in Trauma Room 1, 30 minutes after he was shot at Dealey Plaza. At the same time,