WOODROW WILSON SUFFERS MASSIVE STROKE
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) One hundred years ago today, October 2, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a massive stroke at the White House here in the Nation's Capital.
The President had returned to the Executive Mansion after collapsing while on a whistle-stop tour across the country to gain support for the Versailles Treaty which he helped negotiate in France at the end of World War I.
According to Eyewitness to History, Edith Galt Wilson found her husband on the floor of the bathroom of their private quarters. He was unconscious and bleeding from a cut on the head.
Mr. Wilson's personal physician, Dr.Cary T. Grayson, was quickly summoned. After a ten minute examination, he came out in the hall and said...
"My God, the President is paralyzed." The President lay on the Lincoln bed. According to witnesses, "he looked as if he were dead."
SOURCES
"A President's Illness Kept Under Wraps," by Michael Alison Chandler, February 3, 2007, The Washington Post, www.washingtonpost.com/
"President Wilson Suffers a Stroke, 1919," Eyewitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/
President Woodrow Wilson &
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) One hundred years ago today, October 2, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a massive stroke at the White House here in the Nation's Capital.
The President had returned to the Executive Mansion after collapsing while on a whistle-stop tour across the country to gain support for the Versailles Treaty which he helped negotiate in France at the end of World War I.
According to Eyewitness to History, Edith Galt Wilson found her husband on the floor of the bathroom of their private quarters. He was unconscious and bleeding from a cut on the head.
Mr. Wilson's personal physician, Dr.Cary T. Grayson, was quickly summoned. After a ten minute examination, he came out in the hall and said...
"My God, the President is paralyzed." The President lay on the Lincoln bed. According to witnesses, "he looked as if he were dead."
SOURCES
"A President's Illness Kept Under Wraps," by Michael Alison Chandler, February 3, 2007, The Washington Post, www.washingtonpost.com/
"President Wilson Suffers a Stroke, 1919," Eyewitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/
President Woodrow Wilson &
Dr. Cary T. Grayson
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Photo
