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"Today" Show Broadcasts from University of Michigan to Launch March of Dimes Campaign, January 1959 Photographer: Duane Scheel

"Today" Show Broadcasts from University of Michigan to Launch March of Dimes Campaign, January 1959 image
Year:
1959
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 5, 1959
Caption:
Show Telecast: Basil O'Connor (left, center), chairman of the National Foundation, is interviewed by Announcer Dick McCutcheon of the "Today" television program, part of which was telecast nationally from the University's Intramural Sports Building this morning. In front are (from left) Jerry Van Liew, an arthritis victim, and Pam Henry and Jeffrey Reil, national polio "poster children." The U-M Glee Club is in the background. The program helped launch the nation-wide 1959 March of Dimes campaign.