Event Details
The Organ Thieves: Author Talk by Chip Jones
Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Chip Jones discusses his book The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South about the circumstances surrounding the death of Bruce Tucker a Black man who, in 1968, went into Virginia's top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman.
Find the related book discussion scheduled for February 15, 2022.
Find other programs relating to Black History Month.
- Date:
- Thu Feb 24th 2022
- Time:
- 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
- Location:
- TU Meeting Room
- Library:
- Tuckahoe Area Library
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Author Visit Lectures & Talks
For more information, contact Kimberly Bridges, Programming Librarian, at Kbridges@henricolibrary.org or at (804) 501-1929.