Huddie Ledbetter - Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

The Cajun blues guitarist known as Leadbelly who, in 1949, finally submitted to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a crippling condition known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, after the New York baseball star who’d died from the disease eight years previously.

Huddie Ledbetter born January 29, 1889, died 1949

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