“I Don’t Know How You Sleep at Night”
“I Don’t Know How You Sleep at Night” A nightmarish true story of how a researcher who could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives mysteriously decided not to. Joyce Kamen “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. Answers to this question have changed the course of history. During World War II, Oskar Schindler’s answer was to bribe Nazi officials with liquor and other luxury items to save his Jewish factory workers from deportation to Nazi work camps. He saved about 1,100 people—and depleted his entire fortune to do so. In the mid-twentieth century, agriculturist Norman Borlaug responded by saving billions of people from starvation through his development of a high-yield, disease-resistant wheat. He shared his discovery with Mexico, Pakistan, India, and throughout Asia and Africa—doubling food production and decreasing the rates of starvation. Harriet Tubman’s answer is legendary. Tubman was an escaped slave who retur...