OT - Great Fan Sign at Game

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Wow. "The whole world (was) watching".

I know. Someday I'll write my memoirs about it. Here's some highlights from 1968:

A friend of mine and I ran a local headquarters for Eugene McCarthy in south Cook County.

At the convention in Chicago, I was pushed through a plate glass window by the Chicago police at a nearby restaurant along with about 50 other people - I wasn't hurt, though.

I was interviewed by a reporter from the CBS television station in Chicago and the interview was also shown on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.

I got to meet Senator McCarthy and had dinner with him. He's one of four presidential candidates I've had dinner with in my life.

While visiting my girlfriend on the Purdue campus in Indiana, I was picked up and questioned by the FBI because there were campus "riots" that weekend and I had out of state (Illinois) license plates. When I proved I was just there to visit a girl, they let me go.

It was a different time in America, all right.

OK - back to basketball.