I need help with citing please! : )

For a class we have to do the cite in MLA formath...This is for college ESL class. I just move to the USA.

I did assignemnt but I so confused so I show to teacher and he say all quote are cited wrong! : (

I so confused. Can someone please read and tell to me what is wrong with quote citation?

Here is Essay:

The President was on the emergency table at the hospital for about 40 minutes, the doctors said. At the end, perhaps eight physicians were in Operating Room No. 1 where Mr. Kennedy remained until his death. Dr. Clark said it was difficult to determine the exact moment of death, but the doctors said officially that it occurred at 1 P.M.

Later, there were unofficial reports that Mr. Kennedy had been killed instantly. The source of these reports, Dr. Tom Shires, chief surgeon at the hospital and professor of surgery at the University of Texas Southwest Medical School, issued this statement tonight:

“Medically, it was apparent the President was not alive when he was brought in. There was no spontaneous respiration. He had dilated, fixed pupils. It was obvious he had a lethal head wound.

“Technically, however, by using vigorous resuscitation, intravenous tubes and all the usual supportive measures, we were able to raise a semblance of a heartbeat.

Dr. Shires said he was “positive it was impossible” that President Kennedy could have spoken after being shot. “I am absolutely sure he never knew what hit him,” Dr. Shires said.

Dr. Shires was not present when Mr. Kennedy was being treated at Parkland Hospital. He issued his statement, however, after lengthy conferences with the doctors who had attended the President.

Mr. Johnson remained in the hospital about 30 minutes after Mr. Kennedy died.

The details of what happened when shots first rang out, as the President’s car moved along at about 25 miles an hour, were sketchy. Secret Service agents, who might have given more details, were unavailable to the press at first, and then returned to Washington with President Johnson.



Wicker, Tom. “Gov. Connally Shot; Mrs. Kennedy Safe.” The New York Times 23 November 1963: A1.



Here are the quotes and my wrong citations: Can you help fix?

1. According to Wicker, “Secret Service agents returned to Washington with President Johnson” (A1).



2. “I am absolutely sure he never knew what hit him” (Shires A1).



3. The New York Times announced “The President (who had been shot during a motorcade in Dallas) was on the emergency table at the hospital for about 40 minutes” (Wicker A1).



4. In an article in The New York Times the day following the President’s assassination, Tom Wicker writes of the scene in a Dallas hospital: “The President was on the emergency table at the hospital for about 40 minutes, the doctors said. At the end, perhaps eight physicians were in Operating Room No. 1 where Mr. Kennedy remained until his death. Dr. Clark said it was difficult to determine the exact moment of death, but the doctors said officially that it occurred at 1 P.M. Later, there were unofficial reports that Mr. Kennedy had been killed instantly” (A1).



5. The chief surgeon at the hospital and professor of surgery at the University of Texas Southwest Medical School, Dr. Shires, issued a statement to the media: Medically, it was apparent the President was not alive when he was brought in. There was no spontaneous respiration. He had dilated, fixed pupils. It was obvious he had a lethal head wound. (qtd.in Wicker A1)



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