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The clash between Alabama Governor George Wallace and President Lyndon
Johnson was world famous as was Martin Luther King's Civil Rights marches
because the poem by Gil Scott Heron, The Revoloution Will Not Be Televised,
later published on a record album was, shall we say, a bit premature. The
revolution WAS televised and I saw it.
A bit of irony surrounded Wallace, publically on TV he announced "There will
be integration over my dead body!" and someone took him up on it. A short
time later a bullet lodged in his spine putting him in a wheelchair and he
did a complete 180, then there WAS integration.
These were turbulent times for America with Vietnam on one side, Civil Rights
on the other and civil riots in the middle. Those too were televised, but I
saw two live and one of them up close and personal. Turbulent alright, those
were downright scary! Mr. Heron, thanks for the poem and to whomever gave me
the recording I say thanks too for a bit of history and a reminder, hold your
horses until the wagon is loaded.
"New Jersey, the most American of all states. It has everything from
wilderness to the Mafia. All the great things and all the worst,
like Route 22."
Jean Shepherd K2ORS (SK) & WOR radio personality
73 de Warren
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Message timed by NIST: 21-Mar-2016 at 08:18 GMT
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