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Hey, this is Josh Levine, the host of One Year.

I hope you're enjoying our season on 1977.

This week's episode comes from our producer, Evan Chong.

Here it is.

While I've been waiting to testify since this meeting opened,

in this country, 200 people have died of cancer.

It was an emotional day in Austin when the Texas Senate Committee

on Human Resources met on May 2nd, 1977.

Over the next three hours, members of the crowd took turns at the microphone.

I had lost previously five members of my family to cancer

and had seen them suffer.

And they tried everything, all of their chemotherapy

and all of their high-powered poisons.

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