The Witness: My Father Played Beside Ray Charles

My father is 98 years young. Before the Army, before 25 years as an auto mechanic for the Postal Service, he led his own jazz band — and in 1943 he shared a stage with Ray Charles at the South Street Casino in Orlando.

Nobody outside our family knew that story until this year.

This episode is about what it means to be a witness. Lyrie Duhart carried the story of the Jones family for eight decades because nobody else wrote it down. At 98 he set it down himself in his debut, The Joneses.

Somebody in your life saw something nobody recorded. Ask them. Record the answer.

My father takes the stage on day two of the Still Standing Summit. August 13–15. Free.

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Food for Thought. Fired Up. God Bless. Peace Out.

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