We lived in Picayune, Mississippi, on the Saturn first stage
for Apollo One. My father explained to me that the Mississippi
Tourist Office was a surveillance front for the state government
and that local citizens were encouraged at the time, 1966,
to stop by the Sheriff’s Office to get Northern license plates
if they were going to travel north out of state.
My father bought Jane Mansfield’s Lincoln.
It had been lent to her by the dealership to tour in for
the summer. This was the year before she died while on tour.
He had a radio phone installed in it. And it had a Mississippi
license since we were from the North.
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