‘Crip Camp’s Larry Allison Did Much More Than Found Camp Jened

Then, he says, he turned his attention to off-track betting. “I went from handicapped to handicapping,” he explains. “I was the press guy, the government relations guy, the community affairs guy. We did some interesting things,” he says adding that all in all, “it was a hard five years.”

After his time in off-track betting, Larry taught special education classes in Brooklyn for a couple of years to put his two children through college.