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7034 S. Crandon Ave Chicago, Ill. Monday, August 14, 1967

Dear Jack,

We have been thinking about you and Gladys for some time and intending to write, but we didn't. We are nearly as famous for not writing as you are

for writing letters. yet there are times when the Medfords write letters, and this is one of those times.

We were on a trip the last couple weeks of July, in our new car _ a red (Firechief "red) Valiant. We went to Baltimore, Washington, the Eastern Shore

of Maryland, and Wilwood [sic], New Jersey - and then back home. Mostly we were visiting friends and relatives, but in Wildwood, of course, we were at the ocean. It was, all in all, a quiet, uneventful trip. While we were away there were riots in Newark and Detroit and a few other places. Something usually happens while we are on our annual trip to Maryland. Last year while we were away there was a somewhat small scale riot on the West Side of Chicago and the Speck murder. Incidentally, some of the things I have been reading about Newark give me the impression that the troops were trigger-happy and very anti-Negro, and I have no doubt this was so. And some were murdered in Detroit too.

I read about the new book "Years of Protest" by Jack Salzman and Barry Wallenstein in Cronie's column. (That must have been a couple of weeks ago, 

and I'm sure some one of your loyal admirers has already sent you the column.) I'll have to read that book.

Also, ten days or so ago, a friend of mine who reads the obituary columns (I usually don't) called my attention to one about Bob Long.. - crossed out

Livingston. Did you hear about his death? He was only 52 when he died, in New York. The funeral apparently