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John W. V. Cordice was born on 16 June, 1919, is an American physician (1919–2013). Discover John W. V. Cordice's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 94 years old?

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1919

John Walter Vincent Cordice, Jr. (June 16, 1919 – December 29, 2013) was an American doctor and surgeon who is most notable for operating on Martin Luther King Jr.. to save his life after a 1958 assassination attempt.

Cordice was born on June 16, 1919 in Durham, North Carolina.

He moved to New York in order to study at NYU for undergrad and New York University School of Medicine.

His father, also a doctor, practiced at Lincoln Hospital in North Carolina.

1943

Cordice joined the Army in 1943 and served as the official physician for the Tuskegee Airmen.

While in the Army, he spent a year in France, where he assisted in that country's first open heart surgery.

Cordice worked at Harlem Hospital for forty years, rising to the position of chief of thoracic surgery.

1958

The elder Cordice was born in St. Vincent, West Indies and died in 1958.

On September 20, 1958, Martin Luther King Jr.. was attacked with a paper knife by Izola Curry.

Cordice, along with doctors Aubre Maynard, Farrow Allen and Emil Naclerio, were called in to operate.

Cordice mapped out a strategy which successfully saved King's life.

He was the subject of the book When Harlem Nearly Killed King: The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King, by Hugh Pearson.

Cordice resided in Harlem and later Queens.

2013

On December 29, 2013, he died of natural causes at the age of 95, in Iowa.