{"id":889,"date":"2005-12-10T19:29:31","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T00:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=889"},"modified":"2005-12-10T22:11:11","modified_gmt":"2005-12-11T03:11:11","slug":"eugene-mccarthy-dies-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/eugene-mccarthy-dies-at-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene McCarthy dies at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.minnesota.publicradio.org\/features\/2005\/06\/15_olsond_genemccarthy\/\">From Minnesota Public Radio.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:DGO4QhoId3gJ:recollectionbooks.com\/bleed\/images\/BB\/mccarthy_ribbon.gif\" alt=\"McCarthy for President\" align=left \/><br \/>\nIn 1968, my friend Russell went &#8220;clean for Eugene&#8221; and took off to campaign for McCarthy. When he came back, we all pitched in to make posters and then to meet McCarthy as he stopped in at Charlotte&#8217;s Douglas Airport. I also helped (mostly stood around since is was 18 and shy) as we put on a fundraiser for McCarthy. I remember <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Chavis%2C_Jr.\">Ben Chavis (now Chavis Muhammad) <\/a>dancing with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0696038\/\">Paula Prentiss<\/a>. I remember having a sideways conversation with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001285\/\">Elliot Gould<\/a> &#8212; but what did he or I say? I was too shy to say anything likely. Whatever actually happened, I did get energized by Eugene even at a great distance. Like my favorite poster of him standing on a brickyard read &#8220;He stood up and something happened.&#8221;  Not just movie stars visiting Charlotte, but the beginning of political awarenesses for so many people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Minnesota Public Radio. In 1968, my friend Russell went &#8220;clean for Eugene&#8221; and took off to campaign for McCarthy. When he came back, we all pitched in to make posters and then to meet McCarthy as he stopped in at Charlotte&#8217;s Douglas Airport. I also helped (mostly stood around since is was 18 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}