Episode 65: When Osama Bin Laden Wrinkled FDR's Plans: The 100 Year Fight Against Polio

27/05/2025 35 min Temporada 1 Episodio 65
Episode 65: When Osama Bin Laden Wrinkled FDR's Plans: The 100 Year Fight Against Polio

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This is the story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Henrietta Lacks, Jonas Salk, the March of Dimes, the Tuskegee Institute and their collective effort to eradicate polio from the earth. But the story also touches on Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Lewis Adams, the Hampton School, Basil O'Connor, Elvis Presley, Eddie Cantor, Paul Alexander and Osama Bin Laden. 

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