Mr. Billy was thirty-three years on in the year of 1968 it was a normal day to day life until he was shot , then everything was put onto a curfew. Striking and fighting from time to time, but nothing that originated in Memphis. Mr. Billy's typical day was at the Burger joint I worked at, which served both races, 9 to 5 and had a half for the white people and the African American people to sit. I am retired now and obviously this causes the labor from day to day has drastically changed.
An uprising, riots and everyone was gittery and more sturred up than usual. I thought it was awful for anyone to kill anybody regardless of the color. I was at work in the restaurant. Scared to death because we didn't know how far it was going to go. Respected him as a minister, agreed with his mission and goal but never real got into all of what was going on. Mr. Billy laid low through his life just doing what I was supposed to do to keep me and my family happy. However if Mr. King would have been shot in some other location, Mr. Billy feels that Memphis would not have impacted or done the things it has done.