Radio: Mr. X and Mr. Lawrence

One night last month listeners to the radio program We, the People heard a pathetic plea of a faltering old amnesiac who called himself Mr. X. He wanted to know who he was. "I do not want to die nameless and alone," he wept.

In the Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield near Jackson, where Mr. X had been a patient for nearly eight years, nobody had taken overmuch trouble to find out who Mr. X was. Then the Memphis Commercial Appeal wrote a Sunday story about his pathetic but not unusual case and the...

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