“He shouldn't be alive,” doctors said as six-year-old polio-stricken Paul Alexander lay flat inside his seven foot long ventilator – nicknamed his iron lung. Paul, 78, from Dallas, Texas ...

Paul Alexander, the longest surviving iron lung patient in the world, has died at age 78. Find out more about his ...

In hospital in Texas in 1952, Paul was surrounded by other ... Watch: Philip Alexander remembers his brother, 'the man in the iron lung' Philip says he became the master of his own domain, helping ...

"Paul Alexander, 'The Man in the Iron Lung', passed away yesterday," a post ... In 1984, he gained a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Admitted to the bar two years later, he ...

Each year a number of people who made a lasting impact in Dallas and other parts of North Texas die, leaving loved ones, ...