{"id":63749,"date":"2022-05-09T03:16:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T03:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63749"},"modified":"2022-05-09T03:30:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T03:30:46","slug":"three-years-after-the-release-of-lost-boundaries-dr-albert-johnston-was-fired-from-his-job-as-a-radiologist-at-keene-community-hospital-the-president-of-the-hospital-board-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63749","title":{"rendered":"Three years after the release of \u201cLost Boundaries,\u201d Dr. [Albert] Johnston was fired from his job as a radiologist at Keene Community Hospital. The president of the hospital board told reporters \u201cracial prejudice was not the reason for the dismissal,\u201d but the doctor believed otherwise."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Three years after the release of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lost_Boundaries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lost Boundaries<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_C._Johnston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. [Albert] Johnston<\/a> was fired from his job as a radiologist at Keene Community Hospital. The president of the hospital board told reporters \u201cracial prejudice was not the reason for the dismissal,\u201d but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63753\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">doctor believed otherwise<\/a>. \u201cThey have been picking on me ever since my story came out,\u201d he told the press. \u201cIn spite of all that I have accomplished as a white man, I have, more or less, an empty life.\u201d The Johnston family abandoned <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Hampshire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Hampshire<\/a> in 1966 and moved permanently to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Honolulu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Honolulu, Hawaii<\/a>. Dr. Johnston died in 1988 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=35111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thyra Johnston<\/a> in 1995. One of Albert Jr.\u2019s original songs had been used in \u201cLost Boundaries,\u201d and he became a successful composer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>J. Dennis Robinson, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63742\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lost Boundaries: How a UNH student inspired one of America\u2019s first \u201crace films\u201d and why we\u2019re still talking about it<\/a>,&#8221; <em>New Hampshire Magazine<\/em>, April 12, 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhmagazine.com\/lost-boundaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.nhmagazine.com\/lost-boundaries\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years after the release of \u201cLost Boundaries,\u201d Dr. [Albert] Johnston was fired from his job as a radiologist at Keene Community Hospital. The president of the hospital board told reporters \u201cracial prejudice was not the reason for the dismissal,\u201d but the doctor believed otherwise. \u201cThey have been picking on me ever since my story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33048,16585,23610,26840,5755,33463,16589],"class_list":["post-63749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-albert-c-johnston","tag-albert-johnston","tag-albert-johnston-jr","tag-j-dennis-robinson","tag-new-hampshire","tag-new-hampshire-magazine","tag-thyra-johnston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63757,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63749\/revisions\/63757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}