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Chapter 1 | The Polio Crusade | American Experience | PBS
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- Опубліковано 23 бер 2020
- The story of the polio crusade pays tribute to a time when Americans banded together to conquer a terrible disease. The medical breakthrough saved countless lives and had a pervasive impact on American philanthropy that continues to be felt today.
Learn more about THE POLIO CRUSADE, including where to watch the documentary: www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexper...
In the summer of 1950 fear gripped the residents of Wytheville, Virginia. Movie theaters shut down, baseball games were canceled and panicky parents kept their children indoors - anything to keep them safe from an invisible invader. Outsiders sped through town with their windows rolled up and bandanas covering their faces. The ones who couldn’t escape the perpetrator were left paralyzed, and some died in the wake of the devastating and contagious virus. Polio had struck in Wytheville. The town was in the midst of a full-blown epidemic. That year alone, more than 33,000 Americans fell victim - half of them under the age of ten.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents The Polio Crusade, a one-hour documentary from filmmaker Sarah Colt (Geronimo, RFK) that interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while scientists raced to eradicate this dreaded disease. Based in part on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky, The Polio Crusade features interviews with historians, scientists, polio survivors, and the only surviving scientist from the core research team that developed the Salk vaccine, Julius Youngner.
My brother had polio at 18months, completely riddled with it. They say it came from a creek that my mum took him to as it was a very hot Australian summer day. The year was 1953.
They were to rid most of the virus except his leg. He enjoyed his life but was taken by cancer this February. RIP my sweetheart.
Gayle Yeadon Thank you for sharing your dear brother’s story.
@@juliecramer7768 thankyou Julie.
@8alot4t so sorry to hear this. My heart breaks for you.
Did you ever hear about sister Elizabeth Kenny? She treated polio patients in Australia?
I was born in calif. 1951 got polio in left leg one shorter than other I'm 72 now with post polio syndrone
How about a bit more re post polio syndrome. My 82 year old husband died of complications from it. I cried as I watched the program tonight. He was also in an iron lung. He survived and did get his muscles back but ultimately it was "what done him in"
I'm so sorry 💔
Alex Menoscal my grandma has post polio syndrome. She had a mild case of polio when she was 12. One of her legs is slightly shorter than the other now because of it.
David Pinegar agreeed
Over twenty years ago, I helped set up a regional post polio/later effects of polio support group. It's still going strong. It's a real issue. I'll never forget the first meeting, a group of people casually discussing their experiences, of how polio was treated medically (let me tell you, if doctors today tried treating people how they did back then, they'd be disbarred). I cried the hour long journey home from that meeting. Amazing group of people who were able to describe so casually what can only be described as torture. I'm sorry for your loss.
@8alot4t I am actually Australian, just so you know. :) I myself have a disability, nothing to do with polio, but a much rarer disease that not many people have heard about. When I was first struck down with my disability, I was in the trachy ward, which was housed right next to the iron lung ward. When I first started to be weaned off the trachy they would push my bed outside, and I would meet some of the patients from the iron lung ward, who themselves were outside, enjoying the gardens and the weather. I'll never forget, ever, how genuinely happy they were for me that I was going to come off the trachy and breathe for myself. Their generous spirit, to this day, still touches me. I ended up on the spinal unit, and from there, on to a new life as a paraplegic. I got married, had a son and started work for a disability group. Providing a regional information service for people with disabilities.
It was there that I identified the need for a support group for people with post polio, and helped start the group. We had the initial public meeting. LOL We had only 7 rsvps for that meeting, and I thought, "that's ok, we can work with that". More and more people turned up to that meeting. We had over thirty people from all over the Hume region in Victoria. It was eye opening, that's for sure. Traumatising, even. At the time, my son was only 18 months old, and was a hugoholic. They were discussing their hospital treatment and shared a story of a baby with polio. Back then, they thought that polio spread through the body by movement, so the patients weren't allowed to move at all. This little baby was in a Melbourne hospital, the babies parents lived in regional Victoria so couldn't visit often. That poor baby didn't get a hug for over 6 months.
All through that meeting, when they were sharing their stories, I had a mantra running through my head "I am a professional, I will not cry, I am a professional, I will not cry". But driving home? Yep, cried the whole way home, and hugged my hugoholic son so much that he had well and truly enough hugs.
I agree with you completely, I cant understand why the US doesn't have universal health care when they purport to have the "best health care in the world!!!"
I have been following what has been happening in the US closely, heck, I am following politics closely for the first time in a long time and all I can do is thank my lucky stars that I'm an aussie.
Words fail to describe just how horrified I am at what is happening there. I'm not laughing, it's sort of akin to paaing by a car wreck, I can't look away, even in my deep horror of how it is playing out there.
It's nice to meet you, and sorry for this really lengthy reply.
I was born in 1957, and my mother made sure that I had both the Salk and the Sabin vaccines as I grew up.
I was vaccinated in 56 and still got polio. I was 7.
@@dorothydeese759 I feel sorry for you
Enjoyed this documentary very much. We could really use Dr. Salk today.
Very good documtary.
We got Fauchi
@@mastermonarch My sentiments exactly--and it's F-A-U-C-I.
Why? A vocal group of people wouldn't believe him like with Dr. Fauci.
I'm glad we have vaccines
Me too. People forget how many children died of completely preventable diseases back in the day. 😢
It's insane how quickly it spread.
Yep
It's sad
It was dirty as hell back then, especially for the average person. 8:00
Most people don’t talk about how the have nots were living in the 50s
I got polio at the age of 2,now I have PPS. I am74 years old, it's no fun. 😸
Very nice seeing older generations active online, I am proud!
I also got Polio age 2 i am now 73.
@@patanijas Hi Pat,how are you doing, and how do you feel, I l live in Lakewood Colorado, where do you live? it's really cool to hear that other people had polio, and put their stories out there. 😸
@@cynthiacupler8005 My brother and I had slight Polio and we both had to wear those black shoes. It was 1954/55
Very interesting.
We had a Punk Rocker here in the UK who probably no Americans would know but all Brits over 40 would called *Ian Dury* who contracted polio as a child in a lido on the Thames estuary.
I was lucky enough to see him in his last ever concert... He wrote some songs about his condition & some banging tunes besides, great man!
Is there a chapter 2??
NOW WE KNOW ... this is why FDR's image in on a DIME !
I am really Teddy Reiner but somehow landed with my grandson's name on the previous message!
I’m here due to Covid 19 🤦🏼♂️😔
I'm just here so I don't get fined.
Nf G ok Marshawn Lynch lol
You should educate yourself then. 98 percent survival rate. Wake up
Rachel Quinn why u mad tho? Lol
May GOD BLESS YOU ❤
My Dad told me growing up during the 1930s on how local pools would shut down at the first sign of polio outbreak and no one dared going to the lakes and rivers. The fear that no one of my generation born in the 1960s ever knew was a reality during my Dad and Mom's childhood.
Is that narrator voice the short lady principle from Kindergarten Cop? She sounds like her.
Actually, fdr had what was thought of was polio, but actually his symptoms more closely resemble guillan barre syndrome
Cubing Adventures Really?
Not really. Gillian Barre includes speach difficulty. He didn't have that.
Oh really
Having been a child during the early fifties and seeing plenty of polio around me, and after contracting Guillain-Barre in 1973, AND being a PhD microbiologist in public health - my experience and training tell me clearly that what FDR had was polio.
@@tima9790 no actually you're wrong. GBS doesn't cause speech difficulties at all. It's an ascending paralysis starting at the feet and going up. It can leave people completely paralysed and on a vent and unable to communicate but that's incredibly rare. I had it in 2010, I was paralysed from the chest down and it stopped. Didn't affect my speech at all.
When did they start spraying DDT?
Does anyone know who the narrator is ?
Wow
If someone’s can helping all polimilitrs peoples!🙏
and Kratos cast himself from the highest mountain in all of greece
Crazy
i knew some children who had polio when i was a child. but was polio a world wide epidemic? or only in america? i really admire dr sabine and dr jonas salk
Polio was a huge pandemic.
@@spencerpetunia8268 thank you.
World wide - my cousin caught it in Kenya in 1950s
@@juliewambua4577 thanks.
Worldwide. But it hit wealthier areas more because children there had been less exposed to filth as very small infants (which had earlier provided immunity because it’s far less deadly when babies get it), so North America, Europe, Australia, etc.
All anti vaccine people need to watch these films of past history. There’s a reason why such vaccines came about in this world and it’s such a shame that the anti vaccine can’t see it.💔
It's rather horrifying to realize that if this happened today many people would not band together to get vaccinated and eradicate the disease.
@@kirnpu Your correct. It was almost like that with the “Covid”!
We need to really do a deep dive into this and question all the so called science around this, it will help science to advance in a healthy way. We need to know the honest to God truth.
I learned about Franklin Roosevelt in my history wow I can't believe it mr Roosevelt
What about the girl in March of dimes in 1959
4:39 holy fuhkn sht dude. That almost looks cgi 8-O
I love this
song please?
Good day, where would I find this chronicle without watermarks ?
Why
DDT.
The one child looks to be maybe a visitor the other child with the long hair the nice dress and the dollhouse and one is paying closer attention to the attention of the camera as the other girl may be to show off her dollhouse to play like cheese all in attention to the dollhouse for the picture of course the one girl reminds me of buckwheat no joking around I mean the character of buckwheat on The Little rascals this is the very first thing that comes to mind they almost look like the difference between the wealthy and the less fortunate in one picture back in the 50s beautiful black and white real history
God bless 🗡️
Coved 19 of the 1950’s
5:54-6:20
As think end world war two taken lives have polio taken up more lives back then war bad enough to it and this popped nowhere i've started seeing the pattern if don't learn from the past we've doomed to repeat it.
NEGATIVE. 🐑.
THAT QUOTE IS INVALID. CAUSE WHAT U SPEAK OF DOESNT EXIST.
Someone must have came into some money back then because that is a awful nice doll house for those little girls and they're dressed nice their hair is conditioned and taking well care of people that do not have income or means to purchase hair products and things no they do not adorn their children with such Elegance someone came into some money back then I'm wondering why they could not feed these people with a tube in their stomach to keep them from losing so much weight is there digestive system or immune system no more I mean has it failed or did they have no education of the modern science technologies of medical history back there the 50s stemming from the roaring twenties throughout the 50s
I had a self-assembly dollhouse just like that, purchased (cheaply) for me in 1964. I’m can pretty much guarantee it was an affordable item at that time.
Were these children vaccinated for polio ?
I was vaccinated and I still got polio in 56 at age 7.
Here we people are in fear because of Corona!!😭😭😭😭
It kills people ! Of course they are in fear.
Covid-19.
kratos narrator
Did you have to wear a face mask?
No. Only the sick were quarantined. Imagine that.
@@stephaniegormley9982 Theatres, pools and pubs were closed and people clamored to have a vaccine. Imagine that
And people now are whining because they have to wear a face mask to the shops.
I expect there was still anti vaxxers back then.