Tornado Fund Saves Lives

ID: 2225 ~ Source: Collins, Lawrence D., interviewed by Virginia Collins, January 14, 1981, in Waco, Texas, Baylor Institute for Oral History. View Full Interview
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Dr. Lawrence Collins explains how doctors worked pro-bono after the tornado, and all the money collected for services went into a Tornado Fund that was later used to immunize the Waco community from polio.

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