How Harry Evans took up the long fight for thalidomide families
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A member of the team who worked on the Sunday Times campaign and a survivor of the drug’s effects tell how the renowned editor changed their lives
The campaign to win better compensation for children affected by the “morning sickness” drug thalidomide is cited as one of the great achievements of Sir Harold Evans, the British-born journalist and editor who died last week in New York at the age of 92.
But the true impact of Evans’s efforts in the 1970s, both on damaged families and on future journalistic crusades, will outlast the man, according to Marjorie Wallace, who helped him call the distributor of the dangerous pills to account, and to Geoff Adams-Spink, a survivor of the drug. Continue reading...
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