page_title: John Doe No. 24
hierarchical_section_title: John Doe No. 24
caption_attribution_description: English: This is the photo of John Deo No. 24. The original file was first published by NYT in an epapar which is available at https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/05/us/john-doe-no-24-takes-his-secret-to-the-grave.html
context_page_description: John Doe No. 24 was the name given to a deaf and blind man in Jacksonville, Illinois who was put in a mental institution in 1945 when he was a teenager. He had spent 30 years at the Lincoln Developmental Center, and was transferred several times, eventually to a senior center in Peoria where he died in 1993 at the apparent age of 64. His life is covered by a book God Knows His Name: The True Story of John Doe No. 24 by journalist David Bakke and musician Mary Chapin Carpenter, the latter of whom wrote a song about him.
context_section_description: John Doe No. 24 (died November 28, 1993) was the name given to a deaf and blind man in Jacksonville, Illinois who was put in a mental institution in 1945 when he was a teenager. He had spent 30 years at the Lincoln Developmental Center, and was transferred several times, eventually to a senior center in Peoria  where he died in 1993 at the apparent age of 64. His life is covered by a book God Knows His Name: The True Story of John Doe No. 24 by journalist David Bakke and musician Mary Chapin Carpenter, the latter of whom wrote a song about him.
caption: Possible portrait of John Doe No. 24
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