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2020-09-17 6:00:00 PM
2020-09-17 7:00:00 PM
America/Mexico_City
945 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130
"The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer" with Jennet Conant and Ed Lengel, PhD
Join us for a special evening program as Jennet Conant, the author of five books on World War II, shares her latest, which is the gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor’s discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherapy.
Location: 945 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130
Join us for a special evening program as Jennet Conant, the author of five books on World War II, shares her latest, which is the gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor’s discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherapy.
Hear the well-researched story of the fateful Luftwaffe bombing raid on Allied ships in the Italian port of Bari, the investigation that followed and how horrific tragedy gave birth to medical triumph.
