Behind the Scenes in a State Hospital

Behind the Scenes in a State Hospital

Mental illness

Mental health

Mental paternalism

Institutional care

A 1956 Amarillo Globe Times newspaper article against the Texas jury trial law to determine if someone needs institutional care for mental illness. In favor of implementing a similar law to the Kansas law that separates groups of mentally ill individuals into different, more specialized facilities. Part of a series of newspaper articles titled, "The Mentally Ill CAN Be Cured."

Louise Evans and Mary Tom Rasco, Globe-Times Staff Writers

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History (Elizabeth F. Gardner Papers, 1933-1959: Box 2N192, Folder "Clippings 1941-1959")

Amarillo Globe-Times

January 9, 1956

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Newspaper

Newspaper clipping