When Eisenhower sent the troops in to enforce desegregation in Little Rock, there were probably people alive who had also been alive for federal troops during Reconstruction, right?
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In 1956 this guy talks about seeing the Lincoln assassination, which was before Reconstruction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPo...
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Oh yeah, including former president Hoover and FDR's first VP Cactus Jack Garner. It was only 80 years between The Compromise of 1877 and the Little Rock Nine
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