Rocket Band in 1978 Battle of Flowers Parade: About a block up the street Ira Attebury would carry out his rampage the following year. Reportedly, he had camped out at the same location, at the corner of Broadway and Grayson (Burgraf Tire), for a couple of Fiesta Week Parades leading up to 1979, which is another way of saying he was probably just up the road on this day as well. It's rather grim to think that maybe we'd been marching past him all that time, especially near where we'd line up for the Parade to begin with. That next year (my first at TAMU), the rest of my family would be further up the way---and close enough to the carnage without being too close----where they got some rather stark photos of the San Antonio Police in action, and hundreds of vacant seats and abandoned purses, ice chests; etc.

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