33Disaster Gorge 1966
Vivienne Glosioli was convinced that the health department doctors around the nation would have had the same reaction as Dr Smith in the 1960s to the emerging knowledge about mesothelioma and blue asbestos. Surely, she thought, Dr Mathers at Henry King and Dr Frosby at V&L would have known as well. Sadly, few discovered documents suggested this were true. How the critical documents had vanished was unclear. What it meant was that Dr Smith would need to be accepted as a witness if plaintiffs were eventually going to receive punitive damages from these killer companies. Vivienne believed everything he told her.
“Look at this, Stanley,” Neil Smith said, waving a sheet of paper aloft as he entered Carter’s office. “I think we have our first case of mesothelioma!” He pla
