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We may have had five or six sectors, where one advance
man or two advance men were working. And, I'm telling
you, we turned out the better part of fifty thousand
people.
SY: Hmm.
RW: It was the most incredible sight I have ever laid my
eyes on. We had torches
The back of that plane--I
knew it was going to be my last advance, or my last
stop, the last stop as a tour director, and after that
is was all over. I'd already turned in my resignation,
I'd had already said, "After 1972, November the
seventh, I'm finished, I've had it. 11
SY:
Hm hmm.
RW: He, they opened the back end of that plane and all I
could think was, "God almighty! Three and a half years
of my life [snaps fingers] building something like
this, and then what a happening to end it on. 11 And I
can remember just
I was always the first one off
the
back of the plane. All I could do when that plane,
that door opened, was to put my head in my hands and
just go, "Wow!" The next morning
[End of reel one]
[Reel two begins]
RW: Well, anyway, the morning, I guess, let's see, this was
Sunday morning, so it had to be the fifth we did the
Ontario event. We flew from the east coast to
Greensboro, Albuquerque. Albuquerque, again, was
67
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