Fifties Dive

Illnesses from the 50's were not as bad as the Spanish flu, which I assume was in the early 1900's. The common illnesses for people back in the 1950's were scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid fever, yellow fever, rheumatic fever, pellagra, influenza, smallpox, and cholera.  For some people it was not surprising or was even expected that children died from measles or from a whooping cough. A doctor from Chicago states that these illnesses from the 50s were feared as much as the public feared AIDS back in the 80's or 90's. When someone catches the scarlet fever they do not feel good at all, they become pale, have a red rash, and a pallor around the mouth. After this they just die.  As you know many people in this time period were cautious about illnesses like the pandemic today.  Although there were still many people who did not take diseases seriously nor believed in them since they have not gotten them yet. Others were forgetful about these illnesses or were not care...

This is an awesome red and blue gift for fifters! This hardcover American serial killer book is thick in pages and looks eye-catching. The wording epidemic reminds me of the pandemic that we are currently in right now. The book has a newspaper pattern on the front and the sentences are in big bold letters. This is a book that contains killers from the 1950’s through the 2000’s. My cousin has a book similar and this reminds me of her because she loves to read all about what serial killers did back in their primes. Which seems scary but she seems sane.

Cocaine is a stimulant drug that is made from leave of the South American coca plant.  Many people during the 1950's people did not use cocaine that much because it was outlawed around the era of 1914.  During this time it was said that African Americans were the ones who were the dangerous criminals since they used this drug the most.  The reason cocaine became illegal was because the community feared that southern women were in mortal danger of being attacked by cocaine African American men.  It was the Harrison Act that became the law and one of the first pieces of American legislation on the issue of drug regulation.  What shocked me to find out was the use of cocaine in soda and opium products. Many people in this era just took them without a second thought.  They did not know the harsh effects it has on the body now and how it makes you look older and unhealthy. Although Cocaine was banned many people were still using it and secretly snorting it all t...

William Dale Archerd was born on May 5th, 1912. He came into the world in Dardanelle, Arkansas, United States.  Archerd was labeled as an American serial killer who killed three people with insulin injections from 1956 to 1966 in California.  It is said that he was the first to be convicted of the use of insulin as a murder weapon in the United States and it is theorized in three more cases.  William early life consisted of him being interested in medicine but did not have the discipline to be a doctor that dealt with medicine nor had the money to go through college. He did work in a mental hospital from 1940 through 1941 as an assistant where patients were treated with insulin shock therapies.  I would assume this is where he got his love of insulin came in and gave him the idea to want to experiment on his victims. During 1950, Archerd was convicted to five years on probation for possession of morphine in San Francisco.  As time went on he was parole was revok...

Ernest Ingenito was born May 27, 1924 and died October 7, 1995. He was labeled as the American spree killer who shot nine people. He passed away at seventy-one years old in New Jersey, United States. One of which was his wife Theresa Mazzoli, her family, killing five, and injuring four in November of 1950. Ingenito armed himself with a Luger, a Mauser C96, and a .32 caliber rifle and drove to his wife’s families house. He confronted his wife and demanded he see his children but when one her family members intervened Earnest shot him twice ending his life. As Theresa ran to the dining room, Ingenito shot her in the stomach and the shoulder. He then went after his wife’s mother Pearl Mazzoli and shot her in the doorway, and this luckily did not kill her. Earnest moved on to his next victim Marion Pioppi who was Theresa’s pregnant aunt and she died from the bullet. He then wounded his wife’s nine-year-old cousin and shot his wife’s mother again who at the time hid in the ...