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Helen Keller: Blind
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Helen became good friends with Alexander Graham Bell, whose own mother and wife were blind and deaf. Helen ... went to Cambridge School for Young Ladies, then Wright-Humason School in New York.
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Keller died on June 1, 1968 at age 87. Her request to the Lions 43 years earlier inspired the international organization to adopt the Sight Conservation and Work with the Blind Program as a major service initiative.
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The letter was funneled to an FBI staffer, who replied in a memo dated November 30, 1954, ("Subject: HELEN KELLER SOLICITATION FOR AID TO THE BLIND"). It was recommended that "inasmuch as it is a form letter and in view of the large number of similar requests received by the Director, it is not felt that this letter should be acknowledged."
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