When did Jim thorpe get married?
By the 1950s, Thorpe had no money left, and when he was hospitalized for lip cancer in 1950, he was admitted as a charity case. At a press conference announcing the procedure, Thorpe’s wife wept and pleaded for help, saying: “we’re broke…. Jim has nothing but his name and his memories. He has spent money on his own people and has given it away. He has often been exploited.” In early 1953, Thorpe suffered his third heart attack while eating dinner with his third wife, Patricia Askew, in his trailer home in Lomita, California. Artificial respiration briefly revived him, and he was able to speak to those around him but lost consciousness shortly afterward and died on March 28.
