I received the following email from Bill Kirchner, the jazz saxophonist and historian.
In his always interesting weblog
(http://www.artsjournal.com/rifftides/), journalist and jazz critic Doug Ramsey (who was a TV newscaster in New Orleans in the late
1960s) pointed out an eerily prophetic article that ran in National Geographic magazine almost a year ago:
Read the article. It is heart-breaking.