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AMNESIA VICTIM
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At Bowie today...a farmer who turned up in Utah this week after an amnesia attack which lasted six years is reunited with his
wife.
He's Richard J. Arnold, 53-.year
old veteran of both world wars, who says the last thing he remembers is driving his wife to her mother's home at Bowie in 1947. He says he "came to" last Monday night
on a Salt Lake City Street.
Mrs. Arnold
who wired her husband money to come home , says he suffered two other r . y lapses of memory during the early years of their
marriage in 1942.
Mrs. Arnold says she
had just about given up her husband for dead and was amazed when he turned up in
Utah.,
Mr. Arnold says that when he came
to, he thought he was still in Bowie but couldn't understands why there was snow on
the ground. authorities.
He then reported his plight to A happy reunion at Bowie L
Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a veteran of both world wars overcoming six years of amnesia and reuniting with his wife.
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