American Experience Season 15 Episode 8
Partners of the Heart
Chronicling the unlikely partnership between a white surgeon and a black "technician" that led to a procedure to correct blue-baby syndrome in 1944. The principals: Vivien Thomas, a black man with only a high-school diploma, and Alfred Blalock, the patrician chief of surgery at Johns Hopkins. Blalock pioneered the surgery to correct the congenital heart defect, but it was Thomas who devised to procedures that were used. And they did it at a time, narrator Morgan Freeman says, when the two "could not share the same lunch table in the Hopkins cafeteria."
15 - 13Murder at HarvardJul. 14, 2003- 15 - 12Bataan RescueJul. 07, 2003
- 15 - 11SeabiscuitMay. 29, 2003
- 15 - 10Daughter from DanangApr. 07, 2003
- 15 - 9The PillFeb. 17, 2003
- 15 - 8Partners of the HeartFeb. 10, 2003
- 15 - 7Transcontinental RailroadJan. 27, 2003
- 15 - 6The Murder of Emmett TillJul. 20, 2003
- 15 - 5Chicago: City of the Century (3): Battle for ChicagoJan. 15, 2003
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- 15 - 2Jimmy Carter (2): HostageNov. 12, 2002
- 15 - 1Jimmy Carter (1): Jimmy Who?Nov. 11, 2002
