THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 20, 1950

• 1st ever kidney transplant operation
• Surgery - Surgeon - Ruth Tucker

Page 30 has a somewhat discrete report with one column heading: "Kidney Transplant Reported A Success" (see image)
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Background: In June of 1950, Dr. Richard Lawler made medical history at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, Illinois, by performing the world's very first human kidney transplant. Operating on Ruth Tucker—a woman suffering from fatal polycystic kidney disease—Dr. Lawler transplanted a kidney from a recently deceased donor in a pioneering, high-risk 45-minute procedure executed long before the invention of immunosuppressive drugs, tissue matching, or widespread dialysis. What makes this landmark procedure exceptionally rare and notable is that, despite the inevitable organ rejection requiring the shriveled donor kidney's removal ten months later, the temporary graft functioned just long enough to buy Tucker's remaining natural kidney critical time to recover partial function, granting her five additional years of life. This unprecedented surgical feat shattered the long-standing medical belief that human organ transplantation was impossible, directly establishing the technical blueprint for modern transplant medicine.