Dr. King was in Harlem at Blumstein’s store on 125th Street signing his book “Stride Toward Freedom,” when Izola Ware Curry stabbed him with an envelope opener that came so close to his heart that if he had sneezed the blood would have filled his lungs.
after he was stabbed by a deranged woman. For many years the credit for saving Dr. King’s life was given to Dr. Aubre de Lambert Maynard, the hospital’s chief of surgery. But historians have corrected the record and concluded that it was mainly the expertise of Dr. Cordice and Dr. Emil Naclerio, who actually performed the vital surgery.
Born John Walter Vincent Cordice Jr. on June 16, 1919, in Aurora, North Carolina, he was the son of a physician, who worked for the U.S. Public Health Service during the flu epidemic of 1918. The family moved to Durham, N.C. when John was 6. After graduating early from high school, he attended New York University and its medical school.
All of this was in preparation for his becoming the chief of thoracic and vascular surgery at Harlem Hospital, and he was in this capacity when Dr. King was a patient there after the stabbing. On several occasions Dr. King reflected on the incident, praising the doctors and their skills. He wrote thank you letters to them and in his last public speech before his assassination in 1968, recounted how without the doctors many of his achievements would have never occurred.
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