The Echoes of 1968 Still Haunt Us
6 min readAug 30, 2021
Fifty-three years later, a reminder of what we could have been
“Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart
until,
in our own despair,
comes wisdom through the awful grace
of God” — Aeschylus
He is 77 years old now. He has spent the past 53 years in prison for a murder that still haunts this country all these years later.
