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    • Feb 18, 1948
    Woody Guthrie writes the first of several erotic letters to Mary Ruth Crissman, the sister of a former duet partner, one of them supplemented with newspaper accounts of murders. She later files charges against him for mailing obscene materials
    Dec 22, 1949
    Woody Guthrie receives an early release from a 180-day jail sentence for mailing obscene materials. Guthrie had experienced better returns for his writing: In 1945 cousin Jack Guthrie had a hit with their co-written "Oklahoma Hills"
    May 15, 1952
    Woody Guthrie attacks his wife at home in Manhattan with a pair of scissors. He does not hurt her, but police are called to the scene. The episode is an early sign of his illness, eventually diagnosed as Huntington's chorea
    May 16, 1952
    One day after a domestic quarrel, Woody Guthrie checks into Kings County Hospital in New York to undergo an alcohol treatment program. He is suffering, however, not from alcoholism, but from a rare, undiagnosed disease, Huntington's chorea
    Jun 5, 1952
    Woody Guthrie is released from the alcohol program at Kings County Hospital in New York following a three-week detoxification program. Within days, he is drinking again, and threatening to kill himself
    Jun 14, 1952
    Woody Guthrie is checked in to Bellevue Hospital in New York, after threatening to kill himself. Doctors label him schizophrenic, though they are uncertain about his illness. It is later discovered to be a rare disease, Huntington's chorea
    Jul 15, 1952
    Woody Guthrie is released from New York's Bellevue Hospital, following a one-month stay in which he was diagnosed, incorrectly, as schizophrenic. Within hours, he is drunk and has a fight with his family
    Jul 16, 1952
    A day after his release from Bellevue Hospital in New York, Woody Guthrie checks into Kings County Hospital, convinced he needs to combat an alcohol addiction. His real problem, still undiagnosed, is a neurological disease, Huntington's chorea
    Jul 22, 1952
    Woody Guthrie is transferred from Kings County Hospital to Brooklyn State Hospital for two months of psychiatric examination. During his stay, he undergoes shock therapy and is eventually diagnosed with a neurological disease, Huntington's chorea
    Sep 3, 1952
    After multiple attempts to understand his unorthodox behavior, Woody Guthrie is finally diagnosed at Brooklyn State Hospital with Huntington's chorea, a rare genetic disease that wreaks havoc on the nervous system
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