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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton recalls how he admired Hillary Rodham Clinton, his future wife, from afar while they were both students at Yale Law School. Clinton did not, at the time, want to get into a serious relationship so he tried to avoid Rodham until she decided to come up to him one day and introduce herself. The two began dating and got married on October 11, 1975. He says of Rodham: “She’s still the most interesting person I know.”

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Wife of rock and roll legend Buddy Holly, Maria Elena describes how she and Buddy met.  She provides insight into Buddy Holly’s private life with stories from their time together before his death on February 3, 1959 in an airplane crash.

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Author: Patrick Colucci

“I was a broken young man. One who set out to save the world only to become overcome by the waves of evil and despair, which pervaded the reality I found myself in, in 1960s America.”

I knew it would happen. It’s 3 a.m. in the morning and I can’t sleep. I’m thinking about the trip I made to Bethel, New York in August 2008 to revisit the site of the original Woodstock Festival. I had arrived here once before in 1969, now 39 years later I embraced the woman then a girl who had once saved my life. I had arrived upon the shores of White Lake way back then, on an old junker motorcycle, a suicide machine as battered and beat up as my own mind and body. The fact that either the bike or myself made the hundred-mile trip the first time was quite remarkable in itself.

I was a broken young man. One who set out to save the world only to become overcome by the waves of evil and despair, which pervaded the reality I found myself in, in 1960s America. I was deaf to the phrase “I love you” from those that mattered most, I was dumb to the ways of the world as I emerged from an autistic mindset and blinded to any possibility of overcoming the deep feelings of angst and alienation which weighed down heavily upon me. It was upon that very bike, stoned and unable to see clearly, I hurled myself at incredible speeds towards telephone poles on the foggy winding road that ran through my mind and where I traveled in the real world. Seeing how close I could come without touching them. knowing that a centimeter closer and it could be all over.

I was a seminarian who had faltered, ill-equipped to battle the existential windmills of grief placed before me. I had carried the hopes and aspirations of my monsignor, my parish, and the small Village of Irvington, New York upon my shoulders–and I was losing the battle. Unable to fathom the chaos before me (civil unrest, assassinations, war), I literally drugged and drank myself into oblivion, falling backwards into locked church doors-ways in the middle of the night.

Patrick Colucci Revisits Woodstock (2008). Source: Patrick Colucci.

So I returned in August to White Lake with Maria. She was just just seventeen and I was twenty the first time around. We were back to visit the Museum at Bethel Woods, built on the very spot we spent three days in the mud together 39 years prior. We first went directly to the stage area where the monument was placed. After moments of quiet reflection we met with Duke Devlin and had our pictures taken. Duke is a curator of the museum and like us an original survivor. Later we toured the museum. The museum was impressive and housed many memories of the past. After viewing the museum I left ahead of Maria and turned to take her picture as she stood in front of the edifice.

As I look at this picture, I was brought to tears. There in front of me stood a woman, now a grandmother. Behind her looms the Bethel Woods Museum on the very spot we spent three days in the mud together. I catch her on the phone. She is checking in on the grandkids–our grandkids! The irony is quite profound.

Stuck in traffic on my bike off 17b in August of 1969 a young seventeen girl opened the door and exited the car in front of me. As she walked shoeless toward me, her waist-long hair blowing gently in the breeze, little did I know my life would be changed forever. She asked if I would take her down the side of the road on my bike to wait for the traffic to clear. I agreed and rode toward the festival site with a shoeless Maria. We waited for hours, the car never made it. After several attempts to locate the car, we embraced each other, and rode together into the concert. The rest is history.

Patrick has written extensively on Woodstock, including a novel titled “The Closer’s Song” under the pen-name Christopher Cole, which can be found here.

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American politician Hillary Rodham Clinton describes the first time she met Bill Clinton–who would become president of the United States from 1993 to 2001–while at Yale Law School together. Rodham describes seeing him in a hallway and feeling a “click.” She noticed that he too was staring at her with interests so she decided to get up and introduce herself to him, which left Clinton rather speechless. The two began dating and got married on October 11, 1975, later becoming one of the most powerful couples in American politics.

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Ethel Kennedy gives a rare interview about her life and her marriage to Robert F. Kennedy to Brian Williams and her daughter Rory Kennedy, who was making a documentary about her mother. She talks about enjoying her life surrounded by politics and says that while everything came easy to John F. Kennedy, things were much more difficult for her husband. When asked about her husband’s assassination, she refuses to talk about it. Ethel and Bobby Kennedy had 11 children, with her last child, Rory, being born six months after her father’s death. Their large family also had 16 dogs and even a pet sea lion. Today, Kennedy’s life is full of attending events involving her 35 grandchildren.

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Ethel Kennedy Gives Rare Interview appeared first on Witnify.

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Actress and singer Julie Andrews describes her professional relationship and friendship with Richard Burton–a notorious lady’s man. Andrews comments on how “unbelievably attractive” Burton was and claims that it was a good thing he never made a pass at her while she was married because she didn’t know what she would do. She also shares a story about a fight between her and Burton that began when he started acting strangely towards her. Andrews explains how the fight was resolved and they became “friends forevermore.”

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The Only Leading Lady Burton Never Slept With appeared first on Witnify.

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Three women who were all romantically involved with Jim Morrison, former lead singer of the rock band The Doors, comment on the emotional roller coaster that accompanied being with Morrison. They describe Morrison as having multiple extremes as far as his personality was concerned, from “sweet” to “cruel.” The women state that his struggle with drugs and alcohol caused him to become a different person at times. They also comment on the Jim Morrison film by Oliver Stone, describing it as not telling the full story.

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J.D. Salinger, one of America’s best known contemporary writers, is equally famous for his reclusive behavior. After 60 years of silence, a former lover, Jean Miller, finally shares the private details of her romance with the mysterious author of “Catcher in the Rye,” including his initial attraction to her and his guarded personality.

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In an interview with Larry King, former president and first lady, Gerald and Betty Ford, lament the death of Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States. Betty Ford expresses empathy for her fellow former first lady, and describes Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s love story as “one of the greatest love stories of all time.” When prompted, she also briefly goes into her experience of feeling terror for her husband due to the assassination attempts made on Gerald Ford’s life during his time as President.

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Judy Lewis, the daughter of Loretta Young and Clark Gable, explains how her parents fell in love while filming “Call of the Wild” and describes the fake adoption her mother had to arrange so her career wouldn’t be ruined by unsavory rumors.

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