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1968 – Change Gonna Come

“What kind of nation are we?”

“We were in the middle of something big, so very big and important and I didn’t understand what it was.”

This episode finds ANNIE SHEA a white, Catholic high school senior, a volunteer for Robert Kennedy’s campaign for President in 1968. In this podcast, Change Gonna Come, Martin Luther King Jr. is murdered. At the Wilshire Boulevard offices of KENNEDY FOR PRESIDENT campaign in Southern California, Annie begins her awakening to the powerful racist forces that drive white society in 1968.

#Podcast Sound design & Illustrations by Gord Halloran

Music in this podcast written by Rose Kirchner and used in the film SINGING THE BONES: Also Sam Cooke, Change Gonna Come 

A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE is my first novel, the fictionalized story of an enormous family of Catholics in Pasadena, in 1963. Here are some early reviews of this popular and award-winning book

KENNEDY GIRL takes place five years later, 1968, in Southern California during the turmoil of the late Sixties and takes a journey up the coast of California to Canada during the Vietnam War. The novel was published by Sunbury Press in 2023,  alongside A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE, newly published by Sunbury Press. Click on the link to see the new covers for these two novels.

 

Other episodes in the series SOME KINDA WOMAN, Stories of Us can be found here

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Mother Marcelle's Spaghetti, as discussed in my podcast, "Some kinda woman - Stories of Us"

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