John_Doe_No._24
John Doe No. 24
Wrongly incarcerated deaf American
John Doe No. 24 (born c. 1929,[1] died November 28, 1993) was the name given to a deaf and later blind man in Jacksonville, Illinois, who was put in a mental institution in 1945 as a teenager. He spent 30 years at the Lincoln Developmental Center, and was transferred several times, eventually to a senior center in Peoria. He died in 1993 at the estimated age of 64.[2] His life is covered by the biography God Knows His Name: The True Story of John Doe No. 24 by journalist David Bakke. Musician Mary Chapin Carpenter wrote a song about him, also called 'John Doe No. 24'.[3]