Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Home at Last -- Akron heart transplant patient Dellett Howard Lawson, 50, discusses his plans for the future during a news conference today at the Cleveland Clinic. Lawson, who hopes to be back at work before the end of the year, received the heart of a 25-year-old Arkansas woman just 22 days ago. Bedridden since last October, Lawson said he knew for some time that it was a question of getting rid of his heart or it getting rid of him.
Home at Last -- Akron heart transplant patient Dellett Howard Lawson, 50, discusses his plans for the future during a news conference today at the Cleveland Clinic. Lawson, who hopes to be back at work before the end of the year, received the heart of a 25-year-old Arkansas woman just 22 days ago. Bedridden since last October, Lawson said he knew for some time that it was a question of getting rid of his heart or it getting rid of him.
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Home at Last -- Akron heart transplant patient Dellett Howard Lawson, 50, discusses his plans for the future during a news conference today at the Cleveland Clinic. Lawson, who hopes to be back at work before the end of the year, received the heart of a 25-year-old Arkansas woman just 22 days ago. Bedridden since last October, Lawson said he knew for some time that it was a question of getting rid of his heart or it getting rid of him.

Associated Press · [ca. September 1968]

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