WEEK 297 / 337 — The Borrowed Voice
THE SEVENTEENTH OF FEBRUARY. THE LOUDEST VOICE ON THE COUNTRY'S RADIO DIES AFTER MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS ON THE AIR.
HE TELEPHONES INTO TELEVISION TO SPEAK OF HIM. IT IS THE FIRST TIME THE COUNTRY HEARS HIS VOICE SINCE THE TWENTIETH OF JANUARY.
THE TWENTY-SECOND. THE HIGHEST COURT WILL NOT HEAR THE ELECTION CASES, AND CLEARS EIGHT YEARS OF HIS PAPERS TO GO TO A PROSECUTOR.
THAT EVENING FIVE HUNDRED CANDLES BURN ON THE STEPS ACROSS THE CITY — ONE FOR EACH THOUSAND DEAD.
IN FLORIDA NOTHING IS ISSUED ALL WEEK. IN SIX DAYS HE WILL STAND IN FRONT OF A CROWD AGAIN.
TO BE CONTINUED →
This week in the saga
The week the record goes blank. Nothing at all is issued from Florida. On the seventeenth the loudest voice on American radio dies and he telephones into television to speak of him — the first time the country hears him since the twentieth of January. On the twenty-second the highest court refuses the election cases and clears eight years of his papers to go to a prosecutor, and that evening five hundred candles burn on the steps of the White House, one for every thousand dead.
Readers' Corner
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