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    • Sep 22, 1952
    Woody Guthrie is released from Brooklyn State Hospital in New York. During the previous four months, he was treated at three different hospitals for alcoholism but later diagnosed with a neurological ailment, Huntington's chorea
    Jun 10, 1953
    Woody Guthrie suffers severe burns on his right arm in an accidental fire at home while attempting to cook breakfast in a barbecue pit in Beluthahatchee, Florida
    Jan 22, 1954
    Woody Guthrie and Anneke Marshall have a daughter, Lorina Lynn Guthrie, at New York's Bellevue Hospital
    Aug 29, 1954
    Ohio's Columbus Citizen reports that Woody Guthrie has just finished a jail sentence at the Columbus City Prison--his 12th jail stay in six weeks, as he rides the railroads illegally. Guthrie also notes in the story that he wrote "Oklahoma Hills"
    Sep 16, 1954
    A confused Woody Guthrie checks into Brooklyn State Hospital in New York voluntarily. Guthrie has been suffering for several years from Huntington's chorea, a rare neurological disease
    Mar 17, 1956
    Pete Seeger leads a benefit concert to raise money for singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie, who is suffering from Huntington's chorea, at New York's Pythian Hall. The concert is considered a significant event in the revival of folk music
    May 23, 1956
    Woody Guthrie is arrested for vagrancy in New Jersey. He is institutionalized at Greystone Park in Morris Plains, where he spends his next five years, suffering from Huntington's chorea
    Dec 14, 1956
    Singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie writes for the last time, composing a letter about a fellow patient at Greystone Park in Morris Plains, New Jersey, who eats cigarette butts off the floor. Guthrie is suffering from a degenerative neurological disease
    Jan 29, 1961
    Bob Dylan meets the declining Woody Guthrie in a private residence in East Orange, New Jersey. Both singer/songwriters will eventually be enshrined in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
    Oct 3, 1967
    Woody Guthrie dies in Queens after a 15-year struggle with Huntington's disease. The folk singer/songwriter influenced the social content of several 20th-century genres, including country, and is eventually added to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
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