Reese Witherspoon's 84-year-old father, a retired Army Reserve lieutenant colonel and surgeon, was rushed to a Nashville hospital Friday after a fellow resident spotted him lying face down on concrete near his condo's pool. John Draper Witherspoon, a retired otolaryngologist who once held the rank of lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserves, was […] The post Reese Witherspoon says father is recovering after 84-year-old was found face down near Nashville pool appeared first on American Almanac .
Reese Witherspoon's 84-year-old father, a retired Army Reserve lieutenant colonel and surgeon, was rushed to a Nashville hospital Friday after a fellow resident spotted him lying face down on concrete near his condo's pool. John Draper Witherspoon, a retired otolaryngologist who once held the rank of lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserves, was found motionless by a neighbor who saw him from a balcony above the pool area of his Nashville condominium building. The neighbor called downstairs to alert the doorman, who located the elder Witherspoon on the ground. The doorman and the building manager rolled him over. A source familiar with the scene described what happened next: they asked, "Dr. Witherspoon, are you OK?" He…Open