60 Years Notes

In 86 days, sixty years will have transpired since “someone,somehow” killed the U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

Today is the 60th anniversary of a much happier and great event, the civil rights march in Washington D.C. that featured a stirring speech, by the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King.

Years back, maybe ten already, on the 50th anniversary of the march, I was the first caller on C-Span after that network showed ceremonies commemorating the march.

Among other things, I noted progress had been made, but there is much more needed.

It probably got worse in these ten years.

At best, cue Bob Seger’s “Still The Same.”

I cite Mr. O’Connor, not as “Archie Bunker,” but as Bill Gillespie on “In The Heat Of The Night,” saying the bigotry will not stop until they colonize the moon and only then, if it is not populated by too many, if any “good ol boys.”

Associated Press reporter, Charles Fields recalls the day.