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To The Best Of Our Knowledge
Friday, March 27, 2020, 4:00pm

Larry Brilliant was the doctor who helped lead the UN campaign that eradicated smallpox, and for years he’s been warning about another pandemic that could kill millions of people. But in the 1960s, Brilliant was an unlikely candidate to lead a global campaign against smallpox — a young doctor caught up in the wave of political activism and then the Summer of Love in San Francisco.

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