1950s Housewife in LSD Experiment

From a television programme, circa 1956, about mental health issues. Dr Sidney Cohen, was dosing volunteers at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Los Angeles. Dr Cohen, seen sitting at a table and wearing a lounge suit - his legs crossed in the classic I’m-a-scientist pose - interviews the unidentified housewife, who is dressed in her best black frock. She tells the doctor: ’My husband is an employee here at the VA and he said they were looking for normal people, so I volunteered.’ Dr Cohen asks: