As children these are the people we were exposed to on television
Albert Einstein
Eljah Muhammed
James Brown
Frank Sinatra
Bruce Lee
Ghandi
Marian Anderson
Malcolm X
Elvis Presley
Leonard Bernstein
Picasso
Dr King
Odetta
Nina Simone
Duke Ellington
The Beatles
Jack Ruby
Joseph Bonnano
Mickey Mantle
Nat King Cole
James Baldwin
Hugh Masekela
the Jackson five
Marvin Gaye
Richard Pryor
Jomo Kenyatta
John Kennedy
Robert MacNamara
Kruschev
Peter Sellers
Mao Tse Tung
Bulldog Connor
Milton Burle
Paul Robeson
Jackie Gleason
Fidel Castro
Perry Como
Bob Hope
Mahalia Jackson
Huey P Newton
Bob Dylan
Alan Ginsberg
Ossie Davis
Maralyn Monroe
Olotunji
Abie Hoffman
Pete Seager
Jimmy Hoffa
Adam Clayton Powell Jr
Pigmeat Markham
Errol Garner
Joe Louis
Charles Manson
Richard Burton
Woody Allen
Nehru
Howard Hughes
Ella Fitzgerald
Groucho Marx
Ralph Bunch
Lerone Bennet
Toshiro Mifune
Aretha Franklin
Sylvester Stewart
Marlon Brando
John Glen
Willie Mays
Chuck Berry
Oscar Brown Jr.
Bobo Brazil
Stan Getz
Jimi Hendrix
Pharoah Sanders
Judy Garland
Red Skelton
Imamu Barracka
Sarah Vaughn
Ho Chi Minh
Barry Goldwater
Bo Diddley
Wilt Chamberland
Eldridge Cleaver
Ray Charles
J Edgar Hoover
Lucille Ball
Jim Brown
the Delfonics
John Birch
and I look at tv HDTV and cable, and wonder how many of these folks will be remembered, in the next 2 years, let alone the next 20 months