Bambi.
My father read to me so many times, that I had memorized it. One day, I pretended to read it on my own. As I “read” it, I suddenly noticed the spaces between words and realized each group was a separate word!
Five years later, I read Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, and found that Scout had discovered reading in much the same way. “I could not remember when the lines above Atticus’s moving finger separated into words. . .”
On December 25, 1962, To Kill a Mockingbird, the film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Harper Lee, opened in theaters. The book had been published July 11, 1960.
The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960.
Democrat United States Senator John F. Kennedy defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee.
In 1962, George Wallace was first elected governor of Alabama. I was sitting on the school bus when a boy got on and yelled, “Wallace is going to run all the n****** to the state line!”
An image, from Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Classics Illustrated) of a man swinging a bullwhip at black slaves running away, sprang to my mind. I was afraid.
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