[2nd amendment mama]

Shirley Basore, 72, says she was sitting in the hairdresser’s chair in wealthy Grosse Pointe, Mich., back in 1963 when a rumpus started and she discovered that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and her governor, George Romney, were marching for civil rights — right past the window.

With the cape still around her neck, Basore went outside and joined the parade.

“They were hand in hand,” recalled Basore, a former high-school English teacher. “They led the march. We all swung our hands, and they held their hands up above everybody else’s.”

She remembered the late governor as “extremely handsome.”

Until this week, that was just a vivid memory for a sweet retiree who now lives in Pompano Beach, Fla.

The march too place on a Sunday - June 23, 1963. I don't know many beauty salons that are open on Sunday now, in 2007. I'm quite sure there were absolutely NONE open on a Sunday in 1963!

[Dionysiusdecordealcis]

No, you are confusing it with the Detroit march on June 23 which some press accounts have Romney also marching in but other accounts say he at the last minute decided not to march because it was on the Sabbath/Sunday. The Grosse Pointe march took place six days later. There’s no question Romney marched in it; the only question is whether MLK did also.

Nice try.