BU Unites for MLK, 1968

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1. The 3 Shots that rang out through out that decade that deeply effected my life….I was there! but not as a Boston University Alumni but at the beginnings of my teens enrolled in a S.P.E.D. class, an experiment, a study in the Student Union Building, the tower. Selected from the Brookline School district. I was at B.U. from 4th grade to 1969, finishing 6 years ruffly at B.U. when I was sent back to re-enter the Brookline High School System for my freshman year 1969. I became active in Civil Rights Issues protesting for better education for blacks in the Boston School System at Boston English we had MEDCO students at Brookline High. I marched an protested in the Anti War, MAY DAY rallies and Counter Cultures movements….and marched with the Black Panthers from the Boston Common down Mass ave to Harvard Square S April 16, 1970 and riots preceded, at the age of 15 and got tear gassed and walked home from Harvard square back to Brookline Village at 4 am. These years at B.U. an what was happening to this country and the Vietnam War weighed heavy on my childhood. At B.U. they had an asylum seeker a Draft Invader staying in the Chapel hiding out from authorities, I believe if I am right they came an took him, or he surrender. At Brookline High School during these turmoil years, I found out my draft number was I was heading to Vietnam it was in the 90’s ….Not good, there was one door over from my grandmothers apartment who went over to Vietnam a Paratrooper and within in 2 weeks was K.I.A. on Hamburg Hill, and came home in a box. I decided that I would live life for the time I had before I hit 18 years old an started a rock band an played around the Boston Area 1973 even played at Whiteys Bulger’s bar the Triple O’s club and we got into a beef with him over our band pay, not knowing who he was….but we found out later by my drummers mother who was a Jazz singer in the Combat Zone, and we all freaked out. In the end of the 1960’s this song was seared into my mind. I can’t help thinking even today staring out the window of the Student union Building we were near the top looking down at the crowds and having this song going through my head, and flashing back the 3 shots ringing out….snaps in history of J.F.K. R.F.K. and M.L.K. being taken away from us way to soon, and having this song playing in my head….. Has anybody here seen my old friend Abraham?
   Can you tell me where he’s gone? Abraham * Martin and John *** Dion https://youtu.be/a5hFMy4pTrs Do to the turmoil in the country I never finished High School but later went back to get my GED an then my certification in art an photography. graduated in 1983 and won a presidential award for my excellence. Worked for Digital Equipment Cop in the 1980s as a Creative Illustrator left the corporate world returned to my Music played the Blues Clubs in Alston Harpers Ferry Allston , Somerville Johnny D’s Northhampton, Pearl St , then eventually moved to the Brookfields an taught an painted water colours. In the end all things worked out from the abuse I took as a child, that got me sent tothe SPED class at Boston University in the 1960s’ Amen an Amen…… One note the difference of going to B.U. an the Public High School, no one ever called me names or treated badly at the B.U. sped class versus the Public school system… thats it thee end….. :)

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