WEBVTT >> I HAVE A DREAM.>> AS WE CONTINUE TO HONOR BLACKHISTORY MONTH, WE'RE FEATURINGTHE LAST SURVIVING REPORTER TOCOVER ONE OF THE WOOLWORTH'S SITINS.>> TODAY, HE'S A FORSYTH COUNTYCOMMISSIONER.BACK IN 1960 HE WAS A RADIOREPORTER.BILL O'NEIL SPOKE TO HIM TODAY.HE'S LIVE IN WINSTON-SALEM WITHHIS STORY.BILL A VERY INTERESTING STORY.>> IT REALLY IS.DAVE PLYLER WAS A 20-YR OLDCOLLEGE STUDENT WORKING AS AREPORTER AT A LOCAL RADIOSTATION THE DAY THE GSO SIT INBEGAN.HE WAS ONE OF THREE REPORTERSWHO SHOWED UP TO COVER THESTORY, AND HELPED SPREAD ITNATIONWIDE.>> THERE IS A SENSE OF PRIDE,NATIONWIDE WHEN I DID THAT DAY, IF I HADNOT MADE THOSE PHONE CALLS TOTHE BIG RADIO NETWORKS, WHICHWERE AS BIG AS THE TELEVISIONNETWORKS.THERE WERE THAN THREE TELEVISIONSTATIONS, THERE WAS NO CABLE.SOMEBODY HAD TO SPREAD THE NEWS,I PROBABLY AS AN INDIVIDUAL NOTNEW IT, SPREAD THIS WHOLE THINGNATIONWIDE.>> PLYLER SAYS ONE OF THE OTHERTWO REPORTERS WHO SHOWED UP ATWOOLWORTHS THAT DAY DECIDED THESTORY WOULD GIVE GSO A BLACK EYEAND REFUSED TO COVER IT.HE READILY ADMITS HE HAD NO IDEAHOW BIG THE SIT IN STORY WOULDBECOME.>> ALL THESE CITIES, ONLY ONES-- THEY ALL HEARD ABOUT IT, THATIS WHEN YOU HEAR ABOUT A SIT IN.IT STARTED THAT ALABAMA, HAD ITNOT BEEN FOR US THAT TOOK PLACE.WE WERE THE ONLY ONES THERE.>> PLYLER SAYS THE RADIONETWORKS EVENTUALLY SENT THEIROWN REPORTERS TO GSO TO COVERTHE SIT IN, AND THE REST ISHISTORY.