The Life of Riley

AUTHOR’S NOTE: The true life, action adventure on which you are about to embark through these pages began as an academically structured, investigatory research project in the early 1970s. In October of 2000, it became a speech presented at the reunion of former...

Pieces of Wood

Thursday, September 8th, 1978: 6:57p.m. (on the eve of the hottest day in the city’s history)On the twelfth floor of a high-rise office building in the heart of downtown Chicago, the stage for the filming of a segment of the CBS Evening News with anchor Morton Dean,...