She lived on Argonne in Memphis, TN. She describes it as a nice residential neighborhood. Memphis in the 1960s was a prosperous and one of the cleanest cities in the nation. Memphis had a nice zoo and downtown section. She had a small child that was 3 years old. Her husband worked at Quaker Oats on Chelsea Avenue. She was a stay at home mom. It was a quiet, normal day and the sanitation workers were on strike. She was very shocked and surprised when she heard it on the news at home. It was shocking to her because it seemed like Memphis wasn't the kind of town that would have something like that happen. Her husband and her were concerned because they didn't know if there would be rioting and other trouble. She didn't have a problem that night. They lived a distance away from it. She was on edge because she didn't know what was gonna happen. There was some looting and rioting that night. There were some buildings that were set on fire. She lived in the suburbs so it didn't affect her as much as the people in the city. Her opinion on Martin Luther King didn't change she still thought he wasn't a threat, used peaceful negotiations, and well spoken. She only knew what she saw on television about him. It was inconvenient for her husband because he worked in the heart of town. He had to work a twelve hour day from 7 am to 7 pm. Also, they had to keep the gates locked and only opened the gates when the shift changed. They had to park their cars farther back from the gate so people couldn't throw Molotov cocktails and set their cars on fire. They had to move their corn pile back also so they couldn't set it on fire too. The corn pile was used to make charcoal. There was a curfew every night. People in Memphis don't like that the National people came and said bad things about Memphis. She wants to know how James Earl Ray got out of Memphis and who was helping him stay undercover.