WannaCry hackers show senseless malice

In the 1930s, the Great Depression struck hard in the United States. Unemployment shot up yearly from 1929 until it hit a shocking 23.75 percent in 1933. Hunger and homelessness spread through the cities.

Compounding the chaos, southern central states were ravaged by a drought that dried up topsoil and scattered it in vast dark clouds. Bank foreclosures combined with the desperate weather to drive farmers from land their families had worked and owned for generations.

Many migrated cross-country in search of work in the fertile fields of California. People would do anything if only they could feed their children.