Saturday, April 30, 2016

Reginald H. Booker Dies Last Year At 74

Booker was an Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis (ECTC) figure who worked with Sammie Abbott and Marion Barry


REGINALD HARVEY BOOKER (74) Passed peacefully on July 19, 2015. He is survived by one daughter, Jaha Booker; two sons, Daniel Gayden and Jamal Booker; three grandchildren, four sisters, Germerish Booker, Arlene Jackson, Ruby Holt and Wendetta Watson; two brothers, Harry Jackson, Jr. and Jerome Jackson; and a host of other relatives and friends. Services will be Monday, July 27 at Horton's Chapel, 600 Kennedy St., NW.; 10 a.m. viewing and 11 a.m. service -

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx



I wrote about this freeway controversy previously:

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2009/10/ruth-abbott-widow-of-sammie-abbott-dies.html

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2014/09/getting-over.html

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2012/01/crafted-controversy-scuttling-of-jfks-b.html

A Takoma Park, Maryland resident's 1967 Letter to then Gov. Spiro Agnew How This Controversy Was Being Stoked:

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2015/02/june-1-1967-duncan-wall-letter-to-spiro.html