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Bernadette Tabor Pruitt is an author residing in Wichita Falls, Texas. She wrote "A Family Interrupted" in June 2011. Her books include True Blue, The Reluctant Hero, and A Christmas Wish.  A former journalist, Bernadette edited The Salt of the…

Letter from Robert Carroll to Stacey Bayles dated September 2009. The letter is presented in two versions; one handwritten, one transcribed of Robert Carroll's recollection of the circumstances leading to his hospitalization and his experiences at…

Drawing of the PWA hospital's 2nd floor center ward drawn from memory by Robert Carroll in September 2009. Robert, then known as 'Bobby', was a 9-year old patient at the sanatorium's hospital in late 1958 thru early 1959.

"Notes on Being a Patient at Talihina" written by Dorothy Macomb Fowler in April 2010. Dorothy and her sister, Helen, were 6 and 10 years old, respectively, when they were institutionalized at the Eastern Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium in September…