upper waypoint

Vital Signs: Vietnam Veteran is Homeless and Fighting Cancer

Feb 28, 2014 at

Save Article

Failed to save article

Please try again

As part of our ongoing health series called Vital Signs, we're spending the month hearing from people who are homeless. John Buckingham is a 62-year-old homeless Vietnam vet living with cancer on the streets of San Francisco. He talks to us about his battle with illness.

Sponsored

lower waypoint

next waypoint

How Have Wage Increases Affected Fast Food Workers?SFSU President Begins Negotiations With Campus Gaza Protesters Small Houses Pose Solution to Housing Crisis UC Berkeley Opens Civil Rights Investigation Into Confrontation at Dean’s Home A Family Fled Ethnic Violence in India. Its Echoes Resonate in the Bay Area California Groundwater Surges After Torrential Rain and Snowstorms It’s a 408 vs. 510 Showdown as San Jose Earthquakes Take on Oakland Roots Who Owns the Apartment Next Door? California Agency Says it Will Take Millions to Find Out Amor Towles on his New Short Story Collection 'Table for Two'SFMOMA’s New Collaboration with Artists with Disabilities

Vital Signs: Vietnam Veteran is Homeless and Fighting Cancer

Signed up.