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“All Shook Up”
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Abstract
Rock ’n’ Roll Fight Hospitalizes Youth,” the New York Times announced on April 15, 1957. In a fracas between white and black boys and girls following a rock ’n’ roll show attended by ten thousand fans, fifteen-year-old Kenneth Myers of Medford, Massachusetts, was stabbed and thrown onto the tracks at a subway station. Myers missed touching a live rail by inches and scrambled back onto the platform seconds before a train sped into the station. “The Negro youths were responsible for it,” police lieutenant Francis Gannon told reporters. “The fight was senseless . . . but we expect difficulty every time a rock ’n’ roll show comes in.”
Title: “All Shook Up”
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Abstract
Rock ’n’ Roll Fight Hospitalizes Youth,” the New York Times announced on April 15, 1957.
In a fracas between white and black boys and girls following a rock ’n’ roll show attended by ten thousand fans, fifteen-year-old Kenneth Myers of Medford, Massachusetts, was stabbed and thrown onto the tracks at a subway station.
Myers missed touching a live rail by inches and scrambled back onto the platform seconds before a train sped into the station.
“The Negro youths were responsible for it,” police lieutenant Francis Gannon told reporters.
“The fight was senseless .
.
.
but we expect difficulty every time a rock ’n’ roll show comes in.
”.
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