On a day in the middle of June, 1964, there appeared on the streets of New York an elderly, friendless, and confused lady named Cassie McConaghley. So far as we can tell now, she had hitchhiked here from Seattle, Washington. With no place else to go, she sat in parks for five days and nights. On June 24, 1964, she was received at the Department of Welfare's Shelter for Homeless Women. There, a psychiatrist examined her and found her...
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