Emergency Medical Services certainly weren’t all that well established and organized during the time I was growing up in western Pennsylvania in the 1960s. I remember more than one frantic drive to the ER. 911 wasn’t even a thing, at least not out in the boonies. I imagine that still holds true in many of the more rural and remote parts of the country today.
“At one point, Pittsburgh’s mayor at the time, Robert Flaherty, pushed to get Freedom House defunded, discredited, and shut down. He and others considered the services that Freedom House provided to be un-American.”
The part about this story I found most interesting was how a black-run operation flourished among the bigoted racists abundantly populating the region.
