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Today in History: August 26, AIDS patient begins school via phone hook-up

Also on this date, kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard was discovered alive in California after being missing for more than 18 years.

AIDS victim Ryan White, of Kokomo, Ind., and his mother Jeanne White enter U.S. District Court in Indianapolis, Aug. 16, 1985. Ryan, a hemophiliac, has been barred from attending middle school because he has AIDS. He and his mother filed suit, alleging the Western School Corp. violated Ryan’s rights to equal protection and illegally discriminated against. him as a handicapped  person. The Whites are seeking an injunction to allow Ryan to start school Aug. 26. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
AIDS victim Ryan White, of Kokomo, Ind., and his mother Jeanne White enter U.S. District Court in Indianapolis, Aug. 16, 1985. Ryan, a hemophiliac, has been barred from attending middle school because he has AIDS. He and his mother filed suit, alleging the Western School Corp. violated Ryan’s rights to equal protection and illegally discriminated against. him as a handicapped person. The Whites are seeking an injunction to allow Ryan to start school Aug. 26. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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AIDS patient Ryan White began “attending” classes at Western Middle School in Kokomo, Indiana via a telephone hook-up at his home, as school officials had barred White from attending classes in person due to his illness.

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