January 15, 2014
This Sept. 28, 2012 photo provided by NYC Health and Hospitals Corp. shows John W.V. Cordice at the Harlem Hospital Center in New York, where he had been an attending surgeon and chief of thoracic surgery. Cordice, the surgeon who was part of the medical team that saved Martin Luther King Jr. from a nearly fatal stab wound in 1958 has died at the age of 95. Cordice, a native of Durham, North Carolina, and another surgeon removed the blade which was still stuck in the civil rights leader's chest, millimeters from his aorta, when he arrived at the hospital after being stabbed by a mentally disturbed woman as King signed books in Harlem.
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Surgeon Who Once Saved MLK’s Life, Dies in NY at 95
Dr. John W.V. Cordice, a surgeon who was part of the medical team that saved Martin Luther King Jr. from a nearly fatal stab wound in 1958, has died at age 95.