Blind bestselling author and actor who won the Helen Keller Achievement Award in 1997 and sang 'The Star-Spangled Banner' at Super Bowl X. He played Tom Straw in a 1976 episode of M*A*S*H titled 'Out of Sight, Out of Mind.' He was born prematurely, and though saved by a medical incubator, the excess oxygen it provided gave him retinopathy of prematurity and left him permanently blind.
