Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron lung to breath
On June 8, 1953, Martha Lillard celebrated her fifth birthday with a party at an amusement park in Oklahoma. A little over a week later, she woke up with a sore throat and a pain in her neck.
‘There Was So Little Information’: Polio Survivors Offer Pandemic Perspective
A fear of the unknown. The need to maintain an appropriate distance. An urgent desire to find a cure or vaccine. They're the hallmarks of the coronavirus pandemic, but they also characterized an earlier epidemic: when paralysis-causing polio ravaged the U.S. in the 1940s and '50s.
Remembering Jazz Legend Charlie Haden, Who Crafted His Voice in Bass (Podcast)
A feature from NPR’s “All Things Considered”