Last weekend’s Glenn Beck rally on the site and date of the 1963 March on Washington got a lot of attention, in some ways pushing the normal anniversary coverage of the original march off the radar screen.

But some of it got through. I found out that Nevada’s former state schools superintendent and his wife, Eugene and Susan Paslov, were actual participants at the March.

In 1963, they were Peace Corps volunteers in training at Georgetown University and were warned by Corps officials to stay away from the March (John and Robert Kennedy were nervous about violence and posted an operative, Jerry Bruno, to disable the public address system if they didn’t like the speeches), a warning the Paslovs fortunately ignored.

“Susan and I made our way to the speakers’ platform by the Lincoln Memorial and found some shade among those holding CIO and AFL signs. We waited for the speakers,” Paslov wrote last Sunday in Carson City’s Nevada Appeal.

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