SANDY KOZEL

On February 23, 1954, a group of children from Arsenal
Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, received
the first injections of the new polio vaccine developed by
Dr. Jonas Salk.

Thanks to the vaccine, by the 21st century polio cases
were reduced by 99 percent worldwide.

Though not as devastating as the plague or influenza,
poliomyelitis was a highly contagious disease that
emerged in terrifying outbreaks and seemed impossible
to stop.

The most famous victim of a 1921 outbreak in America
was future President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, then a
young politician. The disease spread quickly, leaving
his legs permanently paralyzed.

Jonas Edward Salk (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945)

A Delta Airlines DC-9-30 similar to the one involved.
     
   

Sam Byck was an American hijacker and attempted assassin
who on February 22, 1974 attempted to hijack a Delta Airlines
jet flying out of Baltimore/Washington International Airport,
intending to crash into the White House in the hopes of killing
President Richard Nixon.

In fact, Byck killed a policeman and a pilot, but was shot and
wounded by another policeman before committing suicide.

Samuel Joseph Byck
(January 30, 1930 – February 22, 1974)

A film based on his story, The Assassination of
Richard Nixon, was released in 2004.

The film starred Sean Penn as Bicke (the surname
spelling having been changed)

    
ROSS SIMPSON

        TIM MAGUIRE