Celebrates Anniversary--Leo Allen Boyd, 51-year-old retired railroad yardmaster from Chippewa, Ontario, Canada, is shown with his wife, Ilene, at St. Lukes' Hospital in Houston, Texas. Boyd has been a patient at the hospital since having a heart transplant Nov. 16, 1968 and is the only survivor of the 20 recipients of the heart transplants performed by the surgery team headed by Dr. Denton Cooley.

Associated Press · [ca. November 1969]

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