Citation

Long CA, Pappas TN, Southerland KW, Shortell CK. J. Vasc. Surg. 2019; 70(5): 1652-1657.

Affiliation

Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jvs.2019.06.203

PMID

31653379

Abstract

Martin Luther King Jr was the most prominent civil rights leader in the United States in the 1960s. He was shot by an assassin in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. After the shooting he was taken to a local hospital where he had an unsuccessful resuscitation for a right subclavian artery transection. Despite the fact that the circumstances around the assassination have been frequently reported and reviewed in the past 50 years, the specific vascular care of the traumatic injury has not been analyzed. This paper reviews the medical aspects of the King assassination and the management of his subclavian injury.

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Language: en

Keywords

Martin Luther King Jr; Subclavian artery injury; Subclavian artery repair; Vascular trauma