XD2601 ” Born in the White House ” 1953 Educational Film on Disease Research and the Fight Against Polio

“Born In The White House”, “Presented by The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Narrated by Ed Herlihy”,

“The film traces the tremendous progress of medical research in the conquest of disease, with particular emphasis on the history of man’s fight against polio. The main character, Bill Dempsey, a Bronx high school student who had polio, visits Washington, D.C. where he learns about the work of pioneers in medical research who have conquered disease and about modern scientists who are making possible the approach to victory over polio”

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