This story has everything: race, riots, medical breakthrough.
Ambulances, what we understand them to be, with trained EMTs? They didn’t exist until 1966. I was already in school before they were invented. They came into being in Pittsburgh because the only option until then was having the police take you to the hospital, and there were entire sections of town where even that was not likely to happen. Which sections of town, I hear you wondering. Uh-huh.
This thread:
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave
Highly recommended, BTW:
I just discovered that Beatrice Shilling (AKA the engineer who solved the negative-g fuel cutout problem on the Spitfire) was also a badass bike racer.
She sounds awesome… I always loved the name Beatrice, too.
And
That second story reminds me of this song…
