On Track for a Deathrow Prisoner
On Track For A Deathrow Prisoner
This unfortunate man was a death row prisoner being forced to test the safety of a roller-coaster in 1958. Criminals like this one deemed unfit for society or even life itself would often be used as guinea pigs and crash test dummies in endless safety tests like these. Deathrow inmates would often be used in the forced testing of vaccines and pharmaceutical drug trials, considered fair subjects for all manner of potential benefits to humanity.
Delivering Babies by Plane
Delivering Babies By Plane
A horrible side effect of the Vietnam war was the hundreds of babies that were orphaned. In a US government project called “Operation Babylift” in 1975, planes were sent to collect the orphans, who were then adopted in the US. Given the hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese adults that were massacred during this awful war, the US government felt responsible for the countless babies that were left parentless due to conflict.
