1964: A Runaway’s Renaissance and a Jewish Boy’s Revenge…by Robert M. Katzman
1964: A Runaway’s Renaissance
by Robert M. Katzman © September 9, 2018
Fifty-four years ago on June 8th, 1964 I ran away from a dangerous violently abusive home. I was fourteen and two weeks away from graduating Caldwell grammar school on the South Side, about a dozen miles south of State and Madison, Chicago’s Downtown.
My story is filled with Ghosts, but it is worth writing down, if only to soothe the Ghosts’ anxiety.
After all, aren’t I part of a world-wide Tribe so often called: The People of The Book?
Who am I to resist that Celestial Design?
It is now long past “What will become of this wild child?”
Now near seventy, I must write, “This is what really happened.”