Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "16637834",
    "label": "Telegram from President Gerald R. Ford to the American Humanist Association Regarding Dr. Jonas Salk",
    "core": "doc",
    "dtoType": "document",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/16637834"
}

{
    "id": "16637834",
    "sourceUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/16637834",
    "contentType": "document",
    "title": "Telegram from President Gerald R. Ford to the American Humanist Association Regarding Dr. Jonas Salk",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/16637834",
    "collections": [
        "White House Central Files Subject Files (Ford Administration)",
        "White House Central Files Subject Files on Messages"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/34/6378/16637834/content/arcmedia/presidential-libraries/ford/gallery/005601250-001.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/34/6378/16637834/content/arcmedia/presidential-libraries/ford/gallery/005601250-001.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/34/6378/16637834/content/arcmedia/presidential-libraries/ford/gallery/005601250-001.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "hasImages": true,
    "source": "import",
    "hasTranscription": false
}

{
    "url": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/16637834",
    "naId": 16637834,
    "levelOfDescription": "item",
    "productionDates": [
        {
            "day": 30,
            "logicalDate": "1976-04-30",
            "month": 4,
            "year": 1976
        }
    ],
    "recordType": "description",
    "ocrSource": "nara-archive"
}

{
    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "document",
    "url": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/34/6378/16637834/content/arcmedia/presidential-libraries/ford/gallery/005601250-001.pdf",
    "mediaId": "e893d247b8eb8c91",
    "ocrText": "WU INFOMASTER\nWHITEHOUSE WSH\n010707C121 1054EST\nANAA\n001 DLY GOVT LUBBOCK TX WHITE HOUSE APR 30\nPMS MR PAUL KURTZ, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, DLR DONT DWR\nAMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION\nC/O WESTERN NEW YORK CHAPTER\n923 KENSIGTON AVE\nBUFFALO NY 14215\nIN JUST TWENTY-ONE YEARS, THE TIME IT TAKES A CHILD TO GROW UP.\nPOLIO MYELITIS HAS BEEN CONQUERED IN THIS COUNTRY. PREVIOUSLY\nPARENTS APPROACHED THE SUMMER SEASON WITH DREAD, WONDERING IF\nTHEIR CHILD WOULD BE ONE OF POLIO'S VICTIMS; AND, SUMMER AFTER\nSUMMER. PARENTS OF MORE THAN EIGHTEEN THOUSAND CHILDREN SAW\nTHEIR WORST FEARS COME TRUE.\nTHE MAN YOU ARE NOW HONORING WITH THE HUMANIST OF THE YEAR AWARD,\nDR. JONAS EDWARD SALK, HELPED BRING ALL THAT WORRY TO AN END. IN\n1954 HIS TEAM DEVELOPED THE WORLD'S FIRST POLIO VACCINE. IT BEGAN\nTO BE DISTRIBUTED IN 1955 AND, OVER THE FIRST SEVEN YEARS OF ITS\nUSE, IT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED THAT THE SALK VACCINE PREVENTED ONE\nHUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR THOUSAND CASES OF PARALYTIC POLIO: THAT\nIS ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR THOUSAND HEALTHY YOUNG AMERICANS\nWHO, WITHOUT DR. SALK, TODAY WOULD BE DEAD OR CRIPPLED.\nTHE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION COULD NOT HAVE CHOSEN A FINER\nMAN TO HONOR FOR HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO HUMAN HEALTH. HIS ACHIEVE-\nMENTS ARE AN ENDURING CREDIT TO OUR COUNTRY AND AN IMMEASURABLE\nSERVICE TO ALL MANKIND. IT IS MOST APPROPRIATE THAT A GREAT NAT-\nIONAL ORGANIZATION WITH SUCH AN INSPIRING REPUTATION FOR HUMANI-\nTARIAN CONCERN IS GIVING US THIS OPPORTUNITY TO HONOR HIM.\nGERALD R. FORD\nACCEPTED\n00001\n1-PC\nP"
}