 We didn't know how he was or how he was doing because nobody really knew. They didn't know he was even shot in the very beginning. They just thought he busted a ribbon and went through his lung and he coughed up oxygenated blood. Thank God for Jerry Parr, who, in fact, said go to the hospital, not to the White House. Had they gone to the White House, he would have bled out. Instead, they went to the hospital. Of course, my father lived.