Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie was born July 14, 1912, in Okfuskee County, Okemah, Oklahoma. He was known as a radio folk singer, a composer of music, a motion picture star for the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture, and an author. He was admitted to the Veterans Hospital on April 10, 1952, suffering from Huntington's Chorea, a chronic neurological condition with occasional psychotic manifestations. There is no known cure for this disease which will eventually be fatal. He was discharged from the Veterans Hospital on September 24, 1952. He was admitted to Brooklyn State Hospital for the mentally ill on January 5, 1954. He became bedridden in the 1960's and died on October 3, 1967, in Queens, New York.
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