
The Paramedics
Criminal
The Power of David Lawrence
In 1966, the National Academy of Sciences released a report saying that an American was more likely to survive a gunshot in Vietnam than at home because soldiers in Vietnam had emergency medical care. A couple of months after it was published, something happened in Pittsburgh that brought emergency medical care to the city's attention. There's a gubernatorial election that is coming down to the wire in the final weekend before this election is going to happen. The state's Democratic Party gets together and they throwThis huge rally in Pittsburgh. And all the powerful people are there. Among them is David Lawrence, who at that time in the state of Pennsylvania,. he was this powerful man who has existed.
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