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Oral history interview of Michael DeBakey by Donald A. Schanche (tape 11)
Oral history interview of Michael DeBakey by Donald A. Schanche (tape 11)
Contributor(s):
Schanche, Donald A. (Interviewer) DeBakey, Michael E. (Michael Ellis), 1908-2008
In 1972, journalist Donald A. Schanche (1926-1994) conducted a series of interviews with DeBakey as part of his research for a planned biography. Schanche worked on the project for several years, but the book was never completed. Several letters in the NLM DeBakey Papers indicate that Schanche, though a talented, experienced writer and editor, had difficulty drafting DeBakey's life story because of the sheer number and variety of DeBakey's interests and achievements. In 1976, Schanche joined the Foreign Division of the Los Angeles Times, and moved to Cairo. It appears that neither he nor DeBakey were able to follow up with the biography.. Topics covered in this interview include: DeBakey's marriage to his first wife Diana Cooper, their children, and traveling together; notes dictated by Schanche from materials re: Cooley's unauthorized implantation of the DeBakey artificial heart prototype in 1969.
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