Oct 25, 2019

An obit question.

"In June 1963, Johnson was in Tuscaloosa, where Wallace blocked the entrance of the University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium to Black students. She and the other reporters were ushered into a large room and locked in. She went to the door and told the young patrolman that she had to use the "ladies room."
She went to the front doorway where Wallace and Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach were talking, and slipped under a large table set up for microphones. She was just a couple of feet from Wallace's legs."

     I love this story in the obituary of a AP reporter, Katherine Johnson, who died this week at the age of 93. And I praise her extraordinary work as a reporter.
     But I'm perplexed. I was not there, but all of the photos I can find of the actual event show a single microphone on a Podium, no large table set up for microphones"...a couple of feet from Wallace's legs.





     I hate to question Ms. Johnson's memory after her passing, but what table? Please help me find the one she wrote about?

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