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  2. Jul 14, 2019 · Dr. Howard Markel. Huntington's disease -- which Guthrie inherited from his mother -- can lead to serious mood disorders, uncoordinated and involuntary body movements, balance problems,...

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  3. 2 days ago · Guthrie was born on July 14, 1912, in Okemah, Oklahoma, to parents Charles and Nora Belle Guthrie. Both were musically inclined and served as major early influences on their son, who later wrote the classic folk song “ This Land Is Your Land .”. Unfortunately, Guthrie inherited Huntington’s from his mother, and the disease led to his ...

  4. Abstract. Woody Guthrie was an American songwriter, musician, writer, and political activist who died with Huntington disease (HD) in 1967 at age 55. His relatively brief creative life was incredibly productive with countless songs and a tremendous volume of letters to his name.

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    • HDSA Celebrates 50 Years of Service
    • Woody Guthrie
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    • Marjorie’s Crusade Against HD
    • The Guthrie Legacy

    In 1967, the dynamic and determined Marjorie Guthrie launched an all-out assault on the disease that would soon claim her husband, music legend Woody Guthrie, and threatened their three children. Her extraordinary efforts turned her into a global voice in the fight against Huntington’s disease.

    Woody Guthrie was an American singer-songwriter and folk musician whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children’s songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan “This Machine Kills Fascists” displayed on his guitar and his best-known song is the iconic “This Land Is Your Land”. Songwrite...

    For twenty years, Marjoriedanced with the New York-based Martha Graham Dance Company. She also taught at the neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater, the Jewish Community Center of Essex County and the New Dance Group. In 1952, she started her own dance school, the Marjorie Mazia School of Dance. Marjorie first met Woody Guthrie in 1942 and th...

    Only a couple weeks later, on October 3, 1967, Woody Guthrie died from HD complications when he was just 55 years old. Before he died, Marjorie promised him that she would devote her life to finding answers. And for the rest of her life, from age 50 to age 65, she fulfilled that promise, never realizing the affects her life, her work and her impact...

    In 1983, HDSA Coalition for the Cure investigator, Dr. James Gusella, found the very first marker for the disease and, after a ten year search that involved collaboration among the top HD researchers worldwide, the gene was located on the short arm of chromosome 4. Since that time, research has progressed rapidly and, in 2004, HDSA formed a pipelin...

  5. Woody Guthrie died at Creedmore State Hospital of complications of Huntington's disease on October 3, 1967. According to a Guthrie family legend, he was listening to his son Arlo's " Alice's Restaurant ", a recording of which Arlo had delivered to Woody's bedside, shortly before he died. [113]

  6. Jan 12, 2014 · Guthrie, who wrote "This Land Is Your Land" and more than 3,000 other folk songs, was suffering from Huntington's disease, a degenerative neurological disorder that at the time was...

  7. Woody contracted the same illness that took his mother: Huntingtons disease, an incurable genetic disorder that causes progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain. He spent most of his last 13 years in a hospital.

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