Zip The Pinhead - Mental Capacity

Mental Capacity

William Henry Johnson may not have been a true microcephalic; he may have merely had an oddly-shaped head. Additionally, he possibly did not suffer the mental retardation that microcephalics often suffer. There has been some interest in ascertaining Zip's actual mental capacity.

William Henry's sister, Sarah van Duyne, claimed in a 1926 interview that her brother would "converse like the average person, and with fair reasoning power".

According to the interview with his sister, Zip's last words to her were "Well, we fooled 'em for a long time, didn't we?"

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