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Minh Son Nguyen playing baseball with therapist Edith Gillespie at Orthopaedic Hospital in Los Angeles, Calif., 1966

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Title: Minh Son Nguyen playing baseball with therapist Edith Gillespie at Orthopaedic Hospital in Los Angeles, Calif., 1966
Contributor: Cox, Bruce H.
Date Created and/or Issued: May 19, 1966
1966-05-19
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: PART OF THE THERAPY-Minh Son Nguyen, 11, Vietnamese war victim who lost left hand when he was 3, swings baseball bat with help of new artificial hand at Orthopaedic Hospital. Catching for him is Miss Edith Gillespie, occupational therapist, who said that swinging bat is first stage of Minh's therapy. He'll learn to use the hand in other tasks in next few weeks. Boy and sister, 9, were adopted last July by Phillip Rockstroth family, Northridge, whose son, Dennis, met them in a Vietnam orphanage.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b574_232674
ark:/21198/zz0002v23w
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: War wounds--Patients--Rehabilitation
Artificial limbs--United States
Lifestyle
People
Children with disabilities--California--Los Angeles County
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Children
War victims--Vietnam
Occupational therapy--California--Los Angeles County
Orthopaedic Hospital
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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