Remembering Sid Catlett Jr. and the 1965 DeMatha–Power Game, Dennis Banks, Henning Pontoppidan

Sid Catlett Jr. was a member of the Hyattsville Maryland DeMatha High School basketball team that took on the undefeated team from New York City, Power Memorial, led by Lew Alcindor (later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). Before over 12,000 people, DeMatha handed Alcindor the only defeat of his high school career, helped by Sid Catlett’s defense and late-game scoring. Dennis Banks was a Native-American activist and one of the founders of the American Indian Movement (AIM) that featured prominently in the 1973 takeover of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Henning Pontopiddan was the Danish anesthesiologist, who learned about the technique of positive-pressure ventilation during the 1952 Copenhagen polio epidemic and helped bring the technique to the United States, revolutionizing intensive care medicine