Polio Pioneer - Randy Kerr

“At 9:35 a.m., April 26, 1954, six-year-old Randy Kerr of Fairfax County, Virginia, became Polio Pioneer No. 1 as the first child to be inoculated in the nationwide vaccine field trial.”

“ ‘I could hardly feel it,” Kerr told reporters that day. ‘It didn’t hurt as much as a Penicillin shot.’ Administering the vaccination is Dr. Richard J. Mulvaney along with Mrs. Earl Purcell and Mrs. John S. Lucas, at the Franklin Sherman School in McLean, Virginia.”

Below: Dr. Richard Mulvaney administers the trial Polio vaccine to six-year-old Randall Kerr

(Source: March of Dimes)