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September 4, 1966. (1966-09-04) –. August 31, 2014. (2014-08-31) The MDA Labor Day Telethon[1] was an annual telethon held on (starting the night before and throughout) Labor Day in the United States to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). The Muscular Dystrophy Association was founded in 1950 with hopes of gaining the ...
From star of The Colgate Comedy Hour to host of The Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon (benefiting the Muscular Dystrophy Association), his work won him several accolades, including two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Lewis performed in concert stages, nightclubs, audio recordings and appeared in at least 117 film and television productions.
Founded in 1950 by Paul Cohen, who lived with muscular dystrophy, MDA accelerates research, advances care, and works to empower families to live longer and more independent lives [5] [6] but is perhaps renowned for its annual Labor Day Telethon, aired every year live from the late-1960s to 2010, with comedian and filmmaker Jerry Lewis as its ...
On this day in history, Aug. 20, 2017, 91-year-old Jerry Lewis died of natural causes at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada.. One of the most well-known American comedians of the 1950s, '60s and well ...
The longest-running national telethon in the United States was The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon, which was staged for over 21 hours each Labor Day to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association between 1966 and 2010. [14] From 2011 to 2013 it was trimmed down to six hours, then to three, and then to two hours.
Jerry Lewis singing on TV met hemming ‘husky’ pants and the mournful end of summer. I hated the annual Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon. I loved the worthy cause, of course, but hated the ...
Laura Ann Hershey (August 11, 1962 – November 26, 2010) was a poet, journalist, popular speaker, feminist, and a disability rights activist and consultant. Known to have parked her wheelchair in front of buses, Hershey was one of the leaders of a protest against the paternalistic attitudes and images of people with disabilities inherent to Jerry Lewis's MDA Telethon. [1]
In 1966 in the US and Canada, Jerry Lewis and the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) began the annual Labor Day telecast The Jerry Lewis Telethon, significant in raising awareness of muscular dystrophy in North America. Disability rights advocates, however, have criticized the telethon for portraying those living with the disease as deserving ...