American Experience- “The Polio Crusade”
10:00pm
This documentary chronicles the decades-long crusade to eradicate polio, one of the 20th century’s most dreaded diseases. The polio epidemic, which affected thousands of children, leaving them crippled or paralyzed, was the subject of lengthy research and a multi-million dollar campaign in 1954 to provide polio vaccine shots to nearly two-million school children in what was essentially the largest public health experiment in American history.
