Anthony

@yashsvidixit7169 Yeah, American Airlines Flight 191. Sheldon and Judith Wax were on that flight. Judith wrote about her son's involvement in Hare Krishna in her 1979 autobiographic book "Starting in the Middle." She also wrote about it in a 1977 New York Times article titled "Sharing a Son with Hare Krishna". Oddly in her "Starting in the Middle" book that came out a few months before she died Judith had written about her intense fear of flying which ended up being on page 191 of the book.

I wonder if this episode was influenced by a New York Times article from May, 1977. The article is titled "Sharing A Son With Hare Krishna" and it's by Judith Wax. A good article I think. In this Lou Grant episode the father is a managing editor of the Los Angels Tribune and Lou Grant is the editor. In real life Judith Wax was a writer, and her husband was a magazine editor for a large and known magazine name. Judith Wax' son joined the Hare Krishna movement in 1973, and she detailed it to some extent in that New York Times article including their visit to see their son at his Temple outside of Chicago. This episode seems to follow the same kind of scene with the parents visiting it and trying to make sense of it. Both seem to accept their son's decision at the end. It's just interesting how there's many similarities between this episode and that article. Judith Wax revisited her experiences of her son joining the Hare Krishna in her 1979 book "Starting in the Middle". She and her husband were killed that same year in a commercial airplane crash so there were no follow ups or updates afterwards in regards to their son. Anyhow, the 1970's seem like yesterday, but yet so long ago.

Interesting to see this video as it was taken only six weeks after the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 which happened at this airport. One of the followers of Hare Krishna had sadly lost both his parents on AA Flight 191.