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Bill Russell taking Red's advice: "Outlive the bastards." - a travesty revisited

Bill Russell and I share at least two things in common. We both love the game of basketball, and we both lived in the town of Reading, Massachusetts in the late 50's and early 60's. I never knew about the vandalism to his home until many years after it happened, but I have thought about it often. What occurred was an absolute travesty, and the Police Investigator in me has never left, so I offer the following.

Bill resided in two different homes in Reading, the first on Main Street - and the second on Haverhill Street, a home shielded from view by evergreen trees.