>fwillard@mindspring.com wrote:
>>
>> Is this film about the activities that led to the
declaration of martial
>> law in Phenix City, Alabama?
>>
> O, Yes, definately a bad time.
I was a kid at the time, but I remember it quite well. I
lived in Atlanta.
We went down to visit an uncle who was in basic training at
Fort Benning,
so I talked my parents into driving accross the river from
Columbus to
Phenix City.
I wanted to see something exciting and did -- for a young kid
at least --
a number of jeeps with machine guns mounted on back patroling
the streets.
The army took martial law quite seriously, as well they
should. They Dixie
Mob had really gotten out of control. They have a tendancy to
do that from
time to time.
I remember the film being marketed as something between an
expose and a
tabloid docu-drama. The commercials had a lurid voice over:
cut to car
blowing up, cut to soldiers gambling, cut to women taking
their clothes
off to slinky saxophone music... something for
everybody.
Fred
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