Flashback: Robert Wadlow, the 'Alton Giant' who at age 21 was over 8 feet tall, fought for his dignity in court | State and Regional
Ron Grossman Chicago Tribune Even though an elevator was right outside the chamber serving as a courtroom, âpolice must plow a path through the crowd even that distance to let Robert stoop through the doors and into his ârideâ downstairs after each session of the trial,â the Alton (Illinois) Evening Telegraph reported on March 9, 1939. Every step of the way, the press trailed the 21-year-old. The hubbub was nothing new for Wadlow. It was his celebrity that brought him and Humberd together in federal court. By the time of his premature death in 1940, Wadlow had ...
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