Being Gene Bullard

ANNETTE TELLS TALES A Black American Teen Exits Jim Crow Georgia for an Alternate Universe in Which He Can Be Himself. And What a Self.

Dave Garroway (L) and Eugene Bullard (R) on The Today Show, 1959. Photo: US Air Force.

NBC TV, December 22, 1959: Today Show host Dave Garroway could hardly believe his luck. Here was a great story, a…