Cavalcade of America: Walter Reed

of America, presented by DuPont, the story of Walter Reed, the fight against Yellow Fever, starring in the role of Walter Reed, the distinguished radio actor John McIntyre. The DuPont Company, makers of better things for better living through chemistry, present the cavalcade of America, dedicated to those men and women in every walk of life who have shaped

the destiny of America in the past, and to the youth of today who will shape the destiny of America in the future. Havana, the year 1900, focal point of a scourge that had spread its tentacles westward around the Gulf to New Orleans and on through Texas to Veracruz, northward from Florida to the Chesapeake

and south and east as far as a gall could fly over the islands to the southern continent. Its name was Yellow Fever and no man knew how it had come there or how it would pass away.

But one fact was certain. In Havana it made a permanent home. Through the narrow old world streets, through the low lying misted jungle, through the warm uplands outside Camaros and the salt marshes streaking the shore, its deadly pace was the same.

And it struck where it would, the young and the old, the healthy and the infirm. And men and women crouched like bundles of rags and corners of a great city, half-savage and fear and an illness, awaiting with certain and hideous death that's stocked in the night without reason or pity, yellow fever. One night in the fall of 1900, lights blazed outside

commodities. In one building of the darkened American Army barracks, the camp hospital, in the bunkhouse below, all was quiet. The men were sleeping. What's the act? Hey. Oh. Oh, what's that? Oh. Skeeter's been following me all night.