Woody Guthrie - Huntington’s Chorea

The last thirteen years of Guthrie’s life were spent in chronic ill health. Doctors offered conflicting diagnoses, though schizophrenia was suggested more than once. In fact, it was Huntington’s chorea, a degenerative disease that had seen his mother institutionalized thirty years earlier, that robbed this talent of virtually all his faculties and eventually took his life.

Woody Guthrie born July 14, 1912, died October 3, 1967

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