“That’s an elephant, isn’t it?” grinned Patrick Nugent. Proud and nervous, Pat announced to reporters at Austin’s Seton Hospital that upstairs his wife Luci had just given birth to an 8-lb. 10-oz. son ...
On the evening of May 3, 1963, Americans watched on television as Martin Luther King Jr.'s campaign to desegregate Birmingham, Alabama collapsed under a wave of officially sanctioned violence.