Mario De Biasi / Mondadori Publishers, via Wikimedia Commons

Dr. Christiaan Barnard photo in 1969

A photo of Dr. Christiaan Barnard in 1969, two years after he performed his famous 1967 heart transplant. He was speaking to reporters in Italy while there to "participate in the international congress on the origins of sudden death and resuscitation therapies." Photo: Mario De Biasi / Mondadori Publishers, via Wikimedia Commons.

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