New York Times/Paul Child/Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

Michael Jackson

Layla: Michael Jackson has had a heart attack.

Noah: Wow, how old is he?

Layla: 50.

Sacha, age 5: That’s old.

Layla: That is not old!

Sacha: It’s old.

…

Layla: Michael Jackson is in a coma.

Hugo, age 7: What’s that?

Layla: He went to sleep and he might not get up.

Hugo: He might not wake up?

Layla: He might not get up.

…

Layla: Michael Jackson has died.

Sacha: He died?

Layla: He died.

Hugo: I want to see a picture. Is that him dead?

Layla: No, that’s not him dead.

…

[Layla laughs at unrelated web video]

Hugo: What?

Sacha: Did Michael Jackson come back to life?

Most politicians believe that the breakthrough nomination of a black national candidate will precede by some time poll evidence that racial prejudice has ebbed to an inconsequential figure. It will come, they feel, in the form of a single politician...with great potential for capturing the imagination of the electorate, compelling qualities as a candidate that would outweigh racial considerations.

New York Times

November 7, 1976

Billie Jean King with vanquished opponent Bobby Riggs after 1973's ballyhooed "Battle of the Sexes," The match drew 50 million television viewers.