Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/04

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Subject: [Leica] Campaign solicits race of Arizona Star photographer, turnsaway t wo Albuquerque Journal Reporters
From: jshul at comcast.net (Jim Shulman)
Date: Wed Aug 4 16:48:30 2004

A comment from my grandfather, Jacob Shulman, who wrote the following to my
grandmother Sadie in 1921.  At the time Jake was a very recent immigrant to
the US; Sadie was still living back in Poland,"

"Today I was able to shake hands with President Harding, a real man of the
people.  Your President would never do anything like that."  Keep in mind
that Harding must have been meeting immigrants in New York City, people who
could well have been anarchists, and more than likely didn't speak much (if
any) English. At the time my grandfather only spoke Yiddish, though he later
mastered English.

By this time (1921) three American Presidents had been assassinated, the
most recent of which (McKinley) by an immigrant anarchist.  One year prior
to Jake's encounter an anarchist bomb exploded on Wall Street--one of a
series of mysterious bombings.  

Common sense has evolved considerably.

Jim Shulman
Bryn Mawr, PA


-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Walker
Smith
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 6:34 PM
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] Campaign solicits race of Arizona Star photographer,
turnsaway t wo Albuquerque Journal Reporters

My name is Walker....... not Walter. I'll say no more about this subject 
except that allowing free access to our highest elected officials by 
anyone and everyone is to invite disaster. That's NOT political. That's 
not against the Constitution. It's just common sense.

Walker



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