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underpants

(182,829 posts) Sun Mar 3, 2019, 10:48 PM Mar 2019

Lester Maddox - Dick Cavett - Jim Brown & (I think) Truman Capote.

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Lester Maddox - Dick Cavett - Jim Brown & (I think) Truman Capote. (Original Post) underpants Mar 2019 OP

Lester Maddox was my Gubnor, despised him as much as trump. Still have to explain to GOPers that Hoyt Mar 2019 #1

✅ underpants Mar 2019 #2

Were you old enough to vote when he ran? brer cat Mar 2019 #3

Just barely, wasn't particularly political at time. Hate to admit I didn't vote in 67 or 71. Hoyt Mar 2019 #4

Didn't realize that Lester had an identical twin. He's the one that looks more like a horses ass. marble falls Mar 2019 #6

That was Truman Capote. I'd love to have heard from him. Thanks for turning me onto ... marble falls Mar 2019 #5

Truly fascinating stuff underpants Mar 2019 #7

He used to have a great comedy show on radio late at night in the nineties. He'd play old stand up marble falls Mar 2019 #8

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

1. Lester Maddox was my Gubnor, despised him as much as trump. Still have to explain to GOPers that

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Sun Mar 3, 2019, 10:58 PM

Mar 2019

Dixiecrats weren't really Democrats. I wish I didn't have to dance around that issue, but it is true that Dixiecrats ran to the Republican Party over the years after the Civil Rights Act.

Maddox was similar to trump in that he rose to fame by chasing Black people out of his restaurant with pick handles and guns. The cretin even sold the damn pick handles for "souvenirs." Maddox was an embarrassment like trump

Love Dick Cavett.

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My last memory of the old coot was I was awaiting a battery in Sears and saw him stumbling around the parking lot, looking for lost coins. Jeeezus, and now these fools are back.

underpants

(182,829 posts)

2. ✅

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 3, 2019, 11:03 PM

Mar 2019

Thank you

brer cat

(24,576 posts)

3. Were you old enough to vote when he ran?

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 3, 2019, 11:15 PM

Mar 2019

That was the only election I ever voted republican.

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

4. Just barely, wasn't particularly political at time. Hate to admit I didn't vote in 67 or 71.

Reply to brer cat (Reply #3)

Sun Mar 3, 2019, 11:22 PM

Mar 2019

marble falls

(57,106 posts)

6. Didn't realize that Lester had an identical twin. He's the one that looks more like a horses ass.

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 08:06 AM

Mar 2019

marble falls

(57,106 posts)

5. That was Truman Capote. I'd love to have heard from him. Thanks for turning me onto ...

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 08:04 AM

Mar 2019

whole bunch of Cavett videos.

underpants

(182,829 posts)

7. Truly fascinating stuff

Reply to marble falls (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 09:47 AM

Mar 2019

I knew of him from his being on Carson and otter TV but I never watched his show. Have no idea what channel it was on.

marble falls

(57,106 posts)

8. He used to have a great comedy show on radio late at night in the nineties. He'd play old stand up

Reply to underpants (Reply #7)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 09:54 AM

Mar 2019

and record cuts.

On TV he was on ABC mostly and PBS and had a show on CBS in the mid seventies for about three months that was prime time and a combination of talk and variety.

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