Phaedri Liberti Augusti Fabulae: On y a Joint Les Fables de Phedre, Imitees Par de La Fontaine (1769)

In late 1961, Bruce Temple has fulfilled his military obligation and takes over the job he was hired to do two years earlier at a TV station in Two Rivers, Mississippi. Bruce also takes up where he left off with Sue Ann Crawford, his true love and senior pre-med student at Memphis State University. A few weeks into the new job, Bruce is fired after several unnerving civil rights-related incidents, beginning when a lynch mob comes to the studio seeking a Black politician and culminating when Bruce and a cohort are severely beaten after they filmed Freedom Riders attempting to integrate a Greyhound bus station. Confused and desperate, Bruce accepts a TV job offer in Texas, sight unseen. He realizes he has made a monumental mistake the moment he enters the station. He reluctantly accepts the challenge; however, maintaining a serious love relationship between Banta, Texas, and Memphis, Tennessee, is difficult at best. Besides a pipsqueak program director and a tyrannical general manager in Texas, Bruce’s situation is further complicated by a beautiful weather girl and a nympho traffic director, each of whom wants to test his loyalty to his betrothed.