Some news videos of Rock Hudson
This is an NBC report of Rock Hudson's illness. This takes place in July 1985. This is the report I have Liam & El watching.
This is an NBC report of Rock Hudson's death.
Oct
2, 1985:
Hollywood
icon Rock Hudson dies of AIDS
On this day in 1985, actor Rock Hudson, 59, becomes the
first major U.S. celebrity to die of complications from AIDS. Hudson's death
raised public awareness of the epidemic, which until that time had been ignored
by many in the mainstream as a "gay plague."
Hudson, born Leroy Harold Scherer Jr., on November 17, 1925,
in Winnetka, Illinois,
was a Hollywood heartthrob whose career in movies and TV spanned nearly three
decades. With leading-man good looks, Hudson starred in numerous dramas and
romantic comedies in the 1950s and
60s, including Magnificent Obsession, Giant andPillow Talk. In
the 1970s, he found
success on the small screen with such series asMcMillan and Wife. To
protect his macho image, Hudson's off-screen life as a gay man was kept secret
from the public.
In 1984, while working on the TV show Dynasty, Hudson
was diagnosed with AIDS. On July 25, 1985, he publicly acknowledged he had the
disease at a hospital in Paris, where he had gone to seek treatment. The news
that Hudson, an international icon, had AIDS focused worldwide attention on the
disease and helped change public perceptions of it.
The first cases of AIDS were reported in 1981 and the
earliest victims were gay men who often faced public hostility and
discrimination. As scientists and health care officials called for funding to
combat the disease, they were largely ignored by President Ronald Reagan and his
administration. Rock Hudson was a friend of Reagan's and his death was said to
have changed the president's view of the disease. However, Reagan was
criticized for not addressing the issue of AIDS in a major public speech until
1987; by that time, more than 20,000 Americans had already died of the disease and
it had spread to over 100 countries. By 2006, the AIDS virus had killed 25
million people worldwide and infected 40 million others.
source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hollywood-icon-rock-hudson-dies-of-aids
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