And, perhaps more important, he organized a group of well-known white conservative leaders to do so as well. He did so on the advice of his friend Lincoln Ragsdale. Lincoln and Eleanor Ragsdale were the first couple of civil rights in Arizona at the time. Lincoln had joined the Tuskegee Airmen in 1944, but the worst injury he ever got during his time in the service was a near-lynching at the hands of a gang of Alabama police officers after he was insufficiently deferential to a white gas-station clerk.
Kwa kuongezea, timu ya upandikizaji wa ogani walijadili uwezekano mkubwa wa uvujaji mwingi wa damu hasa kwa kuwa ni upasuaji wa sehemu mbili kwa mpigo na pia uwezekano mkubwa wa sumu kujikusanya kwenye ini, kuathiri moyo hasa kama ogani hizo mbili zitapandikizwa tofauti tofauti” alisema ”Dk. Paul Ramesh, mshauri mwandamizi wa upasuaji katika mfumo wa upumuaji kutoka hospitali za Apollo, Chennai.