There Are Days When I Wish It Hadn't Happened

March, 1979

There are Days When I Wish It Hadn't HappenedFinally, after three A.M., practically out on my feet from exhaustion, I locked my hotel-room door behind me, pulled off my clothes down to my underwear and flopped onto the bed for whatever rest I could manage to get before running to catch the next plane at seven. A few hours before, I'd been among the 80,000,000 Americans who had watched the concluding eighth episode of the original Roots television miniseries, which had ended with me oncamera spea...