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Robert Barron
Santa Claus of The United States… Title To Be Determined #SCOTUS @bigredwavenow Robert Barron Master of Prosthetic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_FC99ujQ_A
for much of his life Robert Barron used
his special skills to make someone look
like someone else now he's using those
same skills to make someone look like
himself again
here's Julianna Goldman to the naked eye
it's nearly impossible to tell what has
this 12 year old so excited for the
first time in his life Eric Brenner has
looked in the mirror and seen himself
with the right ear it's just gonna go
like that that's really awesome yeah
even I can't tell that's the ultimate
measure of success for Robert Barron the
man who designed Eric's prosthetic it's
something he's used to because barons
designs are fit for spies literally in
his previous life Barron was an
undercover agent creating disguises for
the CIA i tented silicone to look like
skin that was my forte for 15 years he
crafted silicone masks for operatives
working incognito around the world
agents dependent upon the realism of
that disguise because if that disguise
attracted attention in a negative way
then their lives were in jeopardy it's
the stuff movies are made of that's
right yeah but in 1983 he went
undercover to a biomedical sculptors
conference to learn some new tricks of
the trade it was a mission that changed
his life
I saw the disfigurements of people
without a nose without eyes without ears
I said Bob if you can put people in
hiding you can bring these people out of
hiding nine years later he retired and
today works out of his Ashburn Virginia
studio where he sees patients from
around the world
rebuilding eyes and ears and lives so
what's in here well this is my brag box
it's what he shows new patients on their
first visit this is a full face mask
that I made for a burn survivor he gave
me a photograph of what he used to look
like Baron says he treasures his 24
years at the CIA because it led him to
people like Eric that's all
all I need to see is when a patient
walks out of that door they have that
genuine smile on their face thank you a
smile from ear to ear Julianna Goldman
CBS News Ashburn Virginia