Flat Duo Jets in Athens: This Date in History

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Zoo_View said:
They’ve been doing so since at least 1968. Going on 58+ years.
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Link: Jim Gardner (politician) - Wikipedia

Jim Gardner was the first Republican politician I was aware of who ran on the hard-right, racist platform that has become emblematic of today's GOP. I had an uncle who was from Connecticut, was a dyed in the wool Republican, and moved to Wilmington. It troubled him greatly to see the NC Republican Party transition from a pro-business group looking to advance North Carolina through better jobs, beyond farming and textiles, into the bastion of racism and prejudice that it morphed into from the late 1960's to the early 1980's, and remains as such today.
 
05C40 said:
Link: Jim Gardner (politician) - Wikipedia

Jim Gardner was the first Republican politician I was aware of who ran on the hard-right, racist platform that has become emblematic of today's GOP. I had an uncle who was from Connecticut, was a dyed in the wool Republican, and moved to Wilmington. It troubled him greatly to see the NC Republican Party transition from a pro-business group looking to advance North Carolina through better jobs, beyond farming and textiles, into the bastion of racism and prejudice that it morphed into from the late 1960's to the early 1980's, and remains as such today.
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Did he move to NC before or after Jesse Helms first ran in 1972?
 
Zoo_View said:
Did he move to NC before or after Jesse Helms first ran in 1972?
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Before. He assumed Jesse was some sort of joke/protest candidate based on Jesse's "editorials" on the Tobacco Radio Network & WRAL-TV. Ever hear the story of how Jesse got his stake in WRAL? When Jesse was an administrative aide to Sen. Willis Smith, Jesse used his influence to pressure the FCC to grant a TV broadcast license to the WRAL radio station instead of WPTF. In exchange for this legislative courtesy, Jesse was "given" a significant chunk of stock in WRAL and the ability to spew his poison from the public airways. Wiilis Smith was the candidate who defeated Frank Porter Graham largely by screaming the "N" word in every speech.
 
05C40 said:
Before. He assumed Jesse was some sort of joke/protest candidate based on on Jesse's "editorials" on the Tobacco Radio Network & WRAL-TV. Ever hear the story of how Jesse got his stake in WRAL? When Jesse was an administrative aide to Sen. Willis Smith, Jesse used his influence to pressure the FCC to grant a TV broadcast license to the WRAL radio station instead of WPTF. In exchange for this legislative courtesy, Jesse was "given" a significant chunk of stock in WRAL and the ability to spew his poison from the public airways. Wiilis Smith was the candidate who defeated Frank Porter Graham largely by screaming the "N" word in every speech.
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And, Jesse and Tom Ellis doctored up a photo to show Mrs. Frank Porter Graham dancing with a black man.

Wonderful men. Right-wing bigoted Democrats who became right-wing bigoted Republicans after the Civil Rights Act became law.
 
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Note that one of the cars bombed #OTD in 1965 in New Bern was that of Julius Chambers. Ten months later his house would be firebombed in Charlotte. In 1970 his law office was set afire. Meanwhile his father's auto repair shop in Mt. Gilead was also set on fire twice. Chambers went on to become the head of the New York City NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and then in 1993 became Chancellor of his alma mater, North Carolina Central University.
 
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#OnThisDay (January 26) in 1932 Thomas Wolfe "decided not to go to Connecticut with his oh-so-patient editor Max Perkins. But instead of just declining Perkins’ invitation to go to his weekend home, Wolfe opted to board the train and then change his mind at the last moment. He jumped from a moving train on this day in 1932 and landed onto the Grand Central Station platform. But the clumsy 6’5 writer did not make it onto level ground without injuring himself. He severed a vein in his left arm after falling on the concrete platform. Both the writer and his editor had been drinking heavily and had made their way unsteadily to the train. Seeing Wolfe prostrate on the platform, Perkins described the scene as similar to viewing a beached whale on Cape Cod. Onlookers pulled emergency stop wires and a crowd gathered around Wolfe. Of course, Wolfe himself eventually went into a very long description of what he was thinking: shame that he had injured himself and had broken his arm 'uselessly, horribly, stupidly and wastefully.'”

Literary History Today Jan 26: Thomas Wolfe leaps – Better Together Media

The North Carolina born writer decides not to go to Connecticut with his oh-so-patient editor Max Perkins.
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On this day, January 27, 1986, the Flat Duo Jets filmed their legendary segment for the iconic documentary Athens, GA/Inside-Out at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity at UGA!
We are thrilled to share that the documentary by produced by Bill Cody and directed by Tony Gayton is being digitally restored by The UGA Special Collections Libraries for this years 40th anniversary! Stay tuned for more info. In the meantime check out the clip of the performance in the comments.
Thanks Mike Cook!
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