![]() ![]() Jimmy, as he was called, had come to the church for lunch, as he did most Wednesdays. ![]() Raymond’s Maronite Catholic Church hall, located at 1020 South Tenth Street in St. guided his black 1979 Chrysler Cordoba toward St. Movies like The Blues Brothers, Caddyshack and The Empire Strikes Back ruled at the box office, while kids everywhere pestered their parents for an Atari 2600 video game system.Ībout noon on that unremarkable Wednesday, seventy-four-year-old James Anthony Michaels Sr. Disco was dying a gruesome death and rock ‘n’ roll was king, as sales for AC/DC’s recently released Back in Black album showed. Louis Cardinals were up at Chicago’s Wrigley Field defeating the Cubs in a lightly attended day game. Former Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza Debayle was assassinated in Asunción, Paraguay. In Gdansk, Poland, Lech Wałâsa and his strikers inaugurated a new trade union, Solidarity. That day saw Jimmy Carter squaring off against Ronald Reagan in the presidential race. The hottest summer in recent memory was ending, and the weather was refreshingly fair and cool this Wednesday. Wednesday, September 17, 1980, was just another day in the steeplechase of life for most residents of St. ![]()
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