Singing at Kennedy Center in May of 1974 in the Festival of Nations program.

Our school sang at the Festival of Nations in Washington DC in May of 1974 at Kennedy Center.
I have the program here and one picture of the group being silly on the roof of Kennedy Center. I am the very skinny one on the left.
I recall it was an amazing experience as we were privy to all that was going on in Washington at the time with Watergate. It was quite a time to be in Washington. We were all over from The Senate Chamber to the White House.
It was truly quite a trip and one in which we got to sing a lot for many people from all over. It was a very good spring in 1974.
Here we all hang out on the roof garden of the Kennedy Center. I am the skinny one on the left.

Lincoln's deathbed as it looked right after he was taken out of it.

Lincoln died at the Petersen House across the street from Ford's Theater. The room was tiny in which he died. Paintings of the event show a large room. I have not put many of the pictures of the event in here as it gets too ridiculous...One painting turns the little room into a hall of sorts where 40 plus people are gathered around the bed and the picture looks more like a sporting event than a death scene....

Lincoln died in a little room...The fellow who lived there took this picture right after Lincoln's body was removed...You see it all the chairs, the small bed, and the blood all over the pillow. That is what is was really like. Not like the images that are in every history book...It was a bloody, messy scene. In which Lincoln while dying moaned and snorted and his body flopped around in spasms....It was really awful.