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    • 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
    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
    Oct 31, 1952
    Hank Williams checks into a Shreveport hospital with acute intoxication
    Dec 11, 1952
    Hank Williams discharges himself from a Shreveport sanitarium and promptly gets arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct
    Aug 17, 1953
    Red Foley's wife, Sally Sweet Foley, checks into the Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville. The hospital declines to specify her ailment, saying she is being treated for a "nerve condition"
    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
    Dec 21, 1954
    Maxene Andrews, of The Andrews Sisters, is treated at Valley Receiving Hospital in Chatsworth, California, after swallowing 18 sleeping pills. She insists it was an accident and not a suicide attempt. The sisters had country hits by collaborating with Bing Crosby and Ernest Tubb
    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
    Apr 21, 1957
    Red Foley is admitted into a Springfield, Missouri, hospital. Officials say he is merely undergoing a checkup



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