The medical sleaze keeps on coming. We fought and won against the urge to make a rectal thermometer joke, but the possibilities were legion. Above you see Andrew Shaw’s 1966 novel Willing Intern, which is from Greenleaf Classics. Shaw was a pseudonym, but in this case the actual author is unknown. The art is by—once again—Robert Bonfils.
1976—Gerald Ford Rescinds Executive Order 9066
U.S. President Gerald R. Ford signs Proclamation 4417, which belatedly rescinds Executive Order 9066. That Order, signed in 1942 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, established “War Relocation Camps” for Japanese-American citizens living in the U.S. Eventually, 120,000 are locked up without evidence, due process, or the possibility of appeal, for the duration of World War II.