US election: the day Vin Diesel usurped Atticus Finch

By Damien Murphy
Updated November 11 2016 - 1:08pm, first published 12:56pm
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jnr is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama in 1958.  Photo: Charles Moore
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jnr is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama in 1958. Photo: Charles Moore
Charles Perkins and his Freedom Riders in 1965. Photo: Alan Kemp
Charles Perkins and his Freedom Riders in 1965. Photo: Alan Kemp
Protesters take to the streets to demonstrate against the Vietnam War in 1971.
Protesters take to the streets to demonstrate against the Vietnam War in 1971.

It rained all day the day that Elvis Presley died
And only a legend can make it do that!
... He gave me my first leather jacket
And taught me how to comb my hair just right in a filling station bathroom
It was Elvis that gave you a rubber on prom night
And told you that you looked real sharp

- Tom Waits, State Theatre, Sydney, May 2, 1979

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