DALLAS (AP) — Confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child, Paul Alexander managed to train himself to breathe on his own for part of the day, earned a law degree, wrote a book about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this photo from April 27, 2018, attorney Paul Alexander looks out from inside his iron lung at his home in Dallas. Alexander died Monday, March 11, 2024, at a Dallas hospital.(Smiley N. Pool / The ...

"More than anything, I believe he would want others to know they are capable of great things," Alexander's friend Christopher Ulmer told NPR. Polio struck Paul Alexander in 1952, when he was just 6 ...

On March 11, a man named Paul Alexander died at the age of 78. He held the world record for number of years living inside an iron lung. Alexander contracted polio in 1952, at the age of six. His ...

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 ...

Rest in power Paul Alexander. A man who lived in an iron lung for seven decades after contracting polio as a child has died after contracting COVID-19. In a tale of resilience that spanned more than ...

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 ...

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 his ...