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at the University of Mississippi Medical Center transplant surgery is almost routine for patients like KJ page a new heart means a new life but 50 years ago it was a different world in Mississippi was a different place on June 12th 1963 dr. James hardy and a team of surgeons transplanted a human lung into the chest of 58 year old John Russell a prisoner at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman Russell had repeated bouts of pneumonia a right lung weakened by advanced emphysema and a left lung rendered all but useless by cancer the transplant surgery would be the first of its kind in the world but the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers would be the headline it's really kind of ironic that both those events actually happened simultaneously I mean Medgar Evers was murdered while dr. hardy was doing the lung transplant dr. hardy was responsible for at least two of the really seminal events in surgery and many people are surprised to find out that those two events you know happened here in Mississippi but certainly the lung transplant was probably the most important he he did the world's first lung transplant and that was a major major feat it's actually more difficult to do a lung transplant than a heart transplant so it was interesting that he did the first lung transplant before he did the first heart transplant the staff didn't know it was the first universal because I guess he didn't want us to know I don't know why we didn't know but he just went on just like any other everybody take the stage Joyce Taurasi was there for both transplants the long in 63 and the heart in January of 64 was it a difficult surgery from what you remember I mean was it no everything went well it was really well thought out there was a lot of work before the transplant he was very careful in which patient he did it in and the transplant worked I mean the patient died of kidney failure he didn't die of lung failure the patient died of kidney failure nineteen days after the operation and we put in the long a from attraction beautiful and poor I think he lived nineteen days but they had ran for failure when he came and he died - actually I'm in addition in renal failure but it worked beautifully after all we had no hesitation transplantation was just coming into its own and this was a big step forward particularly for for human they had done this and the animals the laboratory and dr. hardy was just a pioneer he said the time has come and the opportunity was there and he was an excellent technician and could get things done and he took the step forward and did it it was a complex confluence of events a troubled time and economically not wealthy state but a man with a vision and a strong personality and paradoxically a legislature that had been very generous in establishing a quality university hospital it was able to attract the people who made these events occur the heart transplant was a little bit more controversial because it was putting a chimpanzee heart into a man so that didn't get as much positive feedback as the long transplant but it was also another really landmark feat because he actually showed that technically the operation could be done there's no doubt it was a very seminal event in the development of the field of transplantation of heart and lung surgery including open-heart surgery the job of each subsequent generation is to sand stand on the shoulders of the previous and to accomplish even more and if we're not doing that and we're not doing our job and everyone here at the Medical Center is very aware of that rule fifty years after he did the first lung transplant and you know a decade after he passed away I can't go to a national meeting without somebody asking me about dr. hardy you