Re: RARA-AVIS: Phenix City Story

fwillard@mindspring.com
Sun, 20 Sep 98 19:56:45 -0400 In <36055612.61589020@snowhill.com>, on 09/20/98
at 02:22 PM, Ike Israel <papaike@snowhill.com> said:

>fwillard@mindspring.com wrote:

>>
>> Is this film about the activities that led to the declaration of martial
>> law in Phenix City, Alabama?
>>

> O, Yes, definately a bad time.

I was a kid at the time, but I remember it quite well. I lived in Atlanta.
We went down to visit an uncle who was in basic training at Fort Benning,
so I talked my parents into driving accross the river from Columbus to
Phenix City.

I wanted to see something exciting and did -- for a young kid at least --
a number of jeeps with machine guns mounted on back patroling the streets.
The army took martial law quite seriously, as well they should. They Dixie
Mob had really gotten out of control. They have a tendancy to do that from
time to time.

I remember the film being marketed as something between an expose and a
tabloid docu-drama. The commercials had a lurid voice over: cut to car
blowing up, cut to soldiers gambling, cut to women taking their clothes
off to slinky saxophone music... something for everybody.

Fred

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