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Audio News Release (ANR) Promotes 50th Anniversary of Salk Field Trials

In the pre-dawn hours of Monday, April 26, the March of Dimes will offer an ANR to radio stations across the country on the historic National Field Trials when the first child was given the experimental Salk vaccine at Franklin Sherman Elementary School in Fairfax, VA. Click here to listen to our featured 60-second audio news release with Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, granddaughter of March of Dimes founder President Franklin D. Roosevelt. If you'd like to read the script or if you're a radio station and you'd like to access the audio via satellite in .wav, or .ra format please read the attached advisory. For further information call Medialink at (212) 812-7053.


Salk Field Trials Audio Advisory (Word .doc, 41k)
Salk Field Trials Audio News Release (mp3, 952k)


 
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