While participating in a fair in San Bernardino in 1961, Wesley Galyon was arrested by local authorities under a little-known section of the California Penal Code. Dating back to 1873, the law prohibited making money off the display of humans with “deformities,” and was invoked after a woman claimed she fell ill when she saw Wesley’s sons — Ronald Lee and Donald Lee Galyon, both aged nine — at the show. Born on October 28th, 1951 in Dayton, Ohio, the twins — known as Ronnie and Donnie — weighed a combined 11 pounds and 11 ounces at birth...
- 7/17/2020
- by Elizabeth Yuko
- Rollingstone.com
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