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Originally Posted by finnbow
To give you an idea of how times have changed, I remember very well the day that King was shot. I was watching TV in my bedroom in Rockville, MD (I was 14 years old) and a newsflash came on the TV to say that Dr. King had been shot. I ran to tell my mother (born 1916 near Selma, AL), to which she responded "I hope they killed that SOB." 
A lot of folks were very uncomfortable (to say the least) about Dr. King's ideas and actions. |
You had your own teevee as a Kid??? I had a crappy AM/FM radio which may as well been AM only, due to the lack of FM stations.
My Dad mirrored you mothers statement. Then again, he thought Billy Graham was a "long haired SOB who needs a haircut".
Chas