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Covering Jesse Jackson and carefully double checking

It was a different time for America, a different time for journalism. I was a writer with Life magazine covering the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination campaign — the one that resulted in Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis facing off against Vice President George H. W. Bush in the general election. My assignment was to follow Jesse Jackson, who was running an upstart campaign against Dukakis and several others.