The John Miller who met Paul Harvey at the 1988 convention is a different
one.  He is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of
California, San Diego.  He is a power user of Nemeth Code and other
math-related tools.  And I think that Paul Harvey's 1988 speech was one of
the most electrifying things that ever happened at any of the 40 or so NFB
conventions I have attended.

Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
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> I remember Paul Harvey speaking at the 1988 NFB national convention in
> Chicago.  What was unusual about this was that only a short 12 years
> earlier
> he was rather critical of the attempts of the blind to gain first class
> citizenship, and many of his criticisms were quoted in Mr. Jernigan's 1976
> banquet speech, "Blindness visions and vultures."  But by 1988 we
> apparently
> won him over because his presentation, which could have been titled "Could
> you do it with your eyes closed?" pointed out several blind people who did
> seemingly impossible jobs including our own John Miller who was mentioned
> in
> his presentation and got a chance to meet him.  Maybe he would like to
> share
> some of his observations with us.
> Harvey