Oral history interview with Leon Walker, 2007 July 26.

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Oral history interview with Leon Walker, 2007 July 26.

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Leon Walker talks about growing up on a farm near Rossie, Iowa during the Great Depression; contracting polio in 1941 and being treated for three months at St. Joseph Hospital in Sioux City with the Sister Kenny treatment; marrying and having children; working in banks after attending business school; struggling with the permanent damage to his legs from polio; and the support he got from his parents and his wife.

Transcript: 10 leaves + 7 leaves of copies of photographsSound recording: 1 sound cassette

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Iowa Polio Stories Oral History Project.

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The State Library of Iowa hired Kate Scott to coordinate an oral history project to document the history and impact of polio in Iowa. Interviewees represented counties across Iowa and ranged in age from 55 to 96 and included medical personnel, family members and friends of the afflicted, and polio survivors. The project was carried out in conjunction with the State Library's Center for the Book All Iowa Reads selection for 2007, The Splendid Solution by Jeffrey Kluger. From the descr...

Walker, Leon Watson b. 1922,

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Scott, Kate.

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