 X-ray images taken of his chest revealed that he had multiple abscesses in both of his lungs as a result of a previous bacterial infection.He was placed on a ventilator but quickly deteriorated over the next several hours despite increasingly aggressive treatment with multiple antibiotics; although the medicine killed off most of the infection, it had already weakened Henson's body in many of his organs.On May 16, 1990, Henson died at New York Hospital at 1