The Constant Invader, Youth and TB, Program No. 5

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

On this episode of The Constant Invader, Paul Harvey returns home from the hospital after a two-year recovery from Tuberculosis. His family pushes him to go back to work in his father's steel construction business, but Paul insists that the work is too strenuous, "TB isn't like the measles, something you get completely over once you've had them. I've got to live with my TB, or I'm going to die with it."

After six months of unemployment, Paul bends to the pressure and returns to work as the Foreman. As he predicted, the labor is too much for him, and he finds himself back in the hospital after a collapse. Unfortunately, the disease has now spread to his father.

Narrator Vincent Price closes the program by warning listeners that recovery from TB is more like an "armed truce," and that survivors, especially the young, need our support and understanding.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


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