Breadcrumb Home JFK baby death sparked medical race to save preemies Wednesday, August 7, 2013 Mason City Globe Gazette http://abcnews.go.com/Health/jfk-baby-death-50-years-ago-today-sparked/story?id… Dexter Brady was born at 23 weeks at the University of Iowa Children's Hospital, but because of advances in treating premature children, he shows no developmental abnormalities today, at age 3.