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Bruce Springsteen wasn’t famous in 1971. Neither was Tom
Cruise, a mere schoolboy. Julia Roberts haunted no young
men’s dreams. Robin Wil iams, Steve Martin, Arnold
Schwarzenegger – their fortunes were as yet unmade. Richard
Milhous Nixon was President of the United States. The war in
Vietnam raged. In Wilmington, North Carolina, January was a
time of violence against black citizens-arson, bombings,
shootings. At the Attica Correctional Facility in New York State,
the bloodiest prison riot in U.S. history claimed forty-three lives.
The best-sel er list of The New York Times included The Winds
of War by Herman Wouk and Another Roadside Attraction by
Tom Robbins. The movies: The French Connection, A
Clockwork Orange, Klute, Carnal Knowledge, The Last Picture
The music: Carole King, John Denver, John Lennon on his own,
Led Zeppelin, Elton John just beginning.
Cigarette sales in the United States topped five hundred and
forty-seven bil ion. J. C. Penney died at the age of ninety-five.
As many as five hundred thousand Soviet citizens perished in
the Gulags during those twelve months evidence of government
restraint. It was a different time. A different world.
The term “serial kil er” was unknown. And “sociopath.” 2
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