The Heart of George Cotton

Oh freedom, oh slavery, bear in the go-ho. Destination Freedom.

The Chicago Defender and Station WMAQ bring you Destination Freedom. A new radio series dramatizing the great democratic traditions of the Negro people. Interwoven in the pageant of history and a part of America's own Destination Freedom.

Today, Destination Freedom tells the unique story of Dr. Ulysses Grant-Daily and of Dr. Daniel Williams, among the first surgeons to perform successful sutures on the human heart. In a chapter entitled, The Heart of George Cotton, I am the human heart, its rhythm.

I am a hollow bag, the size of your fist. I live in a cavity between two lungs. I am the timekeeper of human life. Fair, impartial, equal to Turk or Tata, Roman, Greek, Ephiel, Hebrew.

I am old. I circulated blood for chromagnons, Neanderthals, Rhodesians, and if in men I have been the lion and the lamb, the love and the hate. If in men that good is often turd with their bones, so let it be with my blood. So let it be in my story of the men who mastered me,

who learned the laws of my veins and lobes, arteries and oracles, who timed my twisting to planet precision who fought to heal me whenever I was rigged and split outstretched on a table in the breast of a dying man.

The ambulance just brought him in. I called you right away. Eject his pulse, Vethoration temperature. Pulse rapid, Tready. 130. Respiration, 30. Temperature, 105. Oh, good lord. They only brought him in sooner. And sooner... This...

This wound goes down to... I think I found where. There's the needle.

Dreadle on quick. Right here, doctor. Ready to go. Let it go. Only one thing we can do. Call the emergency staff into the operating room. Find his blood type. Get the plasma ready.