Posted in On This Day, tagged bob dylan, charlotte coliseum, it's alright, ma, polly paddock, richard nixon, watergate on January 17, 2013 | 1 Comment »
On this day in 1974: Having set off an Elvis-level ticket-buying frenzy, Bob Dylan makes his first visit to Charlotte at a time when Watergate is threatening the Nixon presidency. Reports the Observer’s Polly Paddock from the original Charlotte Coliseum: “The high point of the night had to come with ‘It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only […]
Posted in On This Day, tagged gov. jim martin, richard nixon, Winston-Salem on June 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1989: Richard Nixon, driven from office 15 years earlier by the Watergate scandal, addresses a fund-raiser for Gov. Jim Martin at Winston-Salem’s Benton Convention Center. It will be the 76-year-old Nixon’s final appearance in North Carolina, a state that twice gave him its presidential electoral votes. “When I was in Washington, […]
