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The Black and White Men Who Saved Martin Luther King’s Life
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Stabbed in the chest in 1958, one mistake or sneeze would have fatally severed his aorta if not for the deft work for two cops and two surgeons.
Michael Daly
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Jan. 20 2014
5:45AM EST
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