when they left those little towns to go somewhere they went to houston, they went to dallas or san antonio. they did not come to new york. they did not go to l.a. the roots go deep and most of my family was still there. >> back to your book on juneteenth, page 101 quote in 1967 there is a rerelease of the 1960 film the alamo. i was taken to see it with my best friend, he tells about that? >> it was an exciting thing. it was a big deal to go to the movies in those days and to go to houston connor was a little town 40 miles north of houston. hisce potentially applying force between the two places. course now houston has breached out and encroached upon all of us in that area. this was an exciting thing to treat to go see this movie about people we already knew about, jim buie, travis, davy crockett, these were names known to us. my best friend he was a boy was really into both characters but i knew who they were thought jim buie was almostmo this semi- godlike person the had this special powers or whatever. he got into knife fights the bowie knife became famous because of that so we go to se