June 6ths
6/6/1886 (Sullivan Diary) Jury selection continues. Each candidate questioned about anarchist sympathies, labor opinions, newspaper preferences. Mrs. O’Brien refuses to shop at Kowalski’s store—claims he harbors radical sympathies. Evidence: he hired a German who attended union meetings. Democracy’s fragile…how quickly neighbors become suspects, workers become threats. 6/6/1907 (Paris) (Kessler Diary) Lunch with Rodin who reminisced about the late ‘70s, early ‘80s monthly “Dinner of the Cossacks”. 6/6/1944 (Diary of Anne Frank) “This is D Day,” the BBC announced at twelve. “This is the day.” The invasion has begun!...BBC broadcast in English: “This is 0 Day.” General Eisenhower said to the French people: “Stiff fighting will come now, but after this the victory. The year 1944 is the year of complete victory. Good luck!”” [18 years in the future in a postwar zeitgeist teens are playing amplified guitars in a new form of music based on a mel...
