Kilmer House

In honor of the 125th birthday of Johnson & Johnson this year, here are 12.5 things you didn’t know about Johnson & Johnson: 1. Johnson & Johnson and the American College of Surgeons co-sponsored the first televised surgical operation in 1947.  The procedure was transmitted from an operating room at the New York Hospital to an audience of 300 people at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, two miles away.  [Johnson & Johnson Bulletin Oct/Nov 1972] 2. The founding of Johnson & Johnson is mentioned in the novel The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb.  The mention comes in a diary entry