The last man to live in an iron lung died in Dallas on Monday. Paul Alexander, 78, spent more than 70 years confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child in 1952. Despite the challenges, ...

DALLAS -- Paul Alexander, who spent the vast majority of the past 70 years in an iron lung and defied expectations by becoming a lawyer and author, died Monday afternoon at the age of 78, according to ...

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His mother knew immediately that something was wrong when he came in after playing on a hot and rainy Texas day. She sent 6-year-old Paul Alexander to bed and began pampering him, giving him his ...

DALLAS — A Dallas man who spent more than 70 years in an iron lung after a childhood polio diagnosis has died. Paul Alexander, who was 78, died Monday, according to his obituary with the Grove Hill ...

Rafaela Alexander, emotionally kneels by the burial site of her brother-in-law during the burial service of Paul Alexander, on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, at Grove Hill Funeral Home & Memorial Park in ...

DALLAS — The family of Paul Alexander, the longest living iron lung patient in history, is hoping the machine that helped Paul can be salvaged for another purpose. Alexander, 78, died last week after ...

Paul Alexander, the man who survived seven decades in an iron lung, has died. A 1952 polio outbreak in Dallas, Texas, struck Alexander, who was only 6 years old at the time. The disease left him ...

In the mid-20th century, community spaces like swimming pools and sporting events became a source of anxiety for parents who were frightened by the rampant spread of poliovirus. Their concerns weren’t ...

In this Friday, April 27, 2018, photo, attorney Paul Alexander chats with caregiver and friend Kathryn Gaines as he drinks coffee and she eats breakfast beside his iron lung at his home in Dallas.