Aretha Franklin 1968

A Memory: When Aretha Franklin Visited The U.S.O.

I still remember a gray day in February 1971. Anti-war sentiment in San Francisco, California was running high, and the U.S.O. at 1017 Market Street, where I worked as a secretary, felt almost like a besieged fortress. Then one day, a whisper went through the office (which was upstairs from the main U.S.O.) —  “Aretha …

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