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Title As It Happened: The Polio Crusade / Director: Colt, Sarah
Published Australia : SBS ONE, 2011
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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 min. 59 sec.) ; 314093827 bytes
Summary In the summer of 1950, fear gripped the residents of Wytheville in the US. The town was in the midst of a full-blown Polio epidemic. That year alone, more than 33,000 Americans fell victim to the devastating but little-known virus - half of them under the age of ten. This program interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while scientists, including Jonas Salk, raced to eradicate this dreaded disease. (From the US) (Documentary) G CC
Event Broadcast 2011-09-23 at 20:30:00
Notes Classification: G
Subject Fund raising.
O'Connor, Basil, 1892-1972.
Poliomyelitis -- Patients.
United States.
Form Streaming video
Author Becker, Larry, contributor
Black, Kathryn, contributor
Brown, Betty Cook, contributor
Colt, Sarah, director
Crockett-Stark, Anne B, contributor
Hunt, Linda, cast
Johnson, John M, contributor
Katz, Samuel L, contributor
Offit, Paul A, contributor
Oshinsky, David M, contributor
Sage, Eleanor, contributor
Troan, John, contributor
Warren, Eugene F, contributor
Youngner, Julius, contributor