I had a rather odd thing happen today. I was killing time waiting to take my grandson to the doctor and decided to watch and old rerun of “Gun Smoke”. Marshall Dillon was on a train escorting an accused murderer back to Dodge and one of the passengers was the wife of the governor. Now she was from Chicago and spent a lot of her time working at ways to improve the prison system. She proceeded to make friends with Dillon’s prisoner and nearly got everyone killed before she realized that he was a true bad guy and not some kid to be rehabilitated.
I realized while watching that if this same show were produced today that she would have been the heroine that the prisoner would have been the victim and the Marshall would have been the evil monster who liked to torture.
This is just one more way that times have changed
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