Richard D. Krugman • Jill E. Korbin
Editors

2013

July 7, 1962 was a typical warm and sunny Denver summer day; the temperature reached 91°F, it was clear, dry, and only slightly windy. There was no outward clue that a massive tectonic plate shift was occurring that would eventually have an impact in all corners of the world and on the lives of billions of children. The epicenter was in Denver; Henry Kempe, Fredric Silverman, Brandt Steele, Henry Silver, and William Droegemueller together published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association that day describing a survey of 71 hospitals and a second survey of 77 district attorneys asking about in fl icted trauma in children (Kempe et al. 1962).