TV & VIDEO - March 7, 1988

Emmy winner Nanette Fabray and Oscar winner Louise Fletcher testified on Capitol Hill Friday on behalf of the deaf. “I am a living example of what research can do,” Fabray, who has undergone surgery four times to restore hearing losses, told the House subcommittee on health and the environment. Fletcher told of being raised by deaf parents and said her father, a missionary to the deaf, had died Thursday. Instead of mourning, she said testifying to the subcommittee was “a wonderful way to celebrate his life.”