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APR 23 1965 Hen m Invo Joel a. Shapiro 141-60 84 Road Kew gardens, New York april 18,1965 Dear President Johnson, In January 1964, my father was operated on by Dr. Michael DeBakey. Dr. DEBekey said he performed an experimental operation - designed to give the heart a new supply of blood my father had a own removed from his thigh and added to his heart - an that time my father was told he would never due of a "heart attack" because after six weeks in Houston, of this Extra supply of blood. he returned home - for the next thirteen months