Remember that what happened 60 years ago may not seem logical to us, may even be incomprehensible to us, but things were very different back then in many ways. It’s hard to take our standards and morals and apply them to things that occurred long ago (and although 60 years ago is “long ago,” it’s not that long ago in the scheme of things.
When I was in high school (about 30 years ago), people would drink and drive and unless you were drunk, like drunk drunk, a cop would let you go. Now, we can’t imagine that happening.
When I was in high school (about 30 years ago), it was not uncommon for people to make Irish jokes, Polish jokes, Italian jokes, jokes about black people, jokes about Jewish people, etc. Now we can’t imagine that.
My point is, my examples are from only 30 years ago and those things are shocking.
I was looking at old newspaper clips on microfilm. Newspaper clips from the mid-1960’s. The local paper had a section where they talked about people in the town who were in the hospital or getting released from the hospital, and what kind of illness they had. Imagine? “Jane Smith returned home today after six days in ____ Hospital. She had pneumonia.”