Tie Fighter
notes: label: Description
content: Action figure owned by David Vetter (1971-1984), an American boy with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a hereditary disease that dramatically weakens the immune system.
label: Description
content: Ref: Clyde Haberman, “‘Boy in the Bubble’ Moved in a World He Couldn’t Touch,” New York Times (Dec. 9, 2015), p. A28.
label: Description
content: “William Shearer, Doctor to Immunity Lacking Boy in a Bubble, Dies at 81,” New York Times (Oct. 19, 2018), p. A33.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Carol Ann and David J. Vetter, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0201.03
label: accession number
content: 1986.0201
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Toy