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218 160 If you stay upset at politics all the time you will go crazy and start shooting people from tall towers on campuses in TX.

Posted by: Vic at September 30, 2012 10:08 AM

That happened just a few blocks from my front door. I was 11.
My Mom was supposed to be on Jeopardy two weeks after that and we drove all the way to NYC and they reneged because Austin was a toxic subject.
It was all good though, I got to meet Mickey Mantle when we went through Joplin and on our last day on Manhattan my brother and I walked 76 blocks to the Empire State Bldg and found out it was $5.00 to go to the deck. We were walking back to the hotel down Broadway and stopped in front of Jack Dempsey's. The windows were all tinted and we had our face pressed up against the glass trying to see in when an old man came out and yelled " What are you boys doing!" I said "This is Jack Dempsey's and he's the greatest boxer who ever lived." in a Texas drawl. Well the old man was Jack Dempsey and he took us in and fed us Club Sandwiches and 7-Ups. We told him about Whitman and our friend getting his leg blown off and Jeopardy gypping our Mom and the 76 block walk to the Empire State Bldg so he called us a cab with instructions to take us back to the Empire State and get us to the top and take us to our hotel. He signed Dempsey-Tunney rematch programs for us and I still have them.