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Published: November 10, 2008
For 103-year-old Oklahoman, Obama's election was worth the wait
Robert Jones saw something Tuesday night he’d never thought possible. The 103-year-old — a lifelong voter, a grandson of slaves — saw a black man elected president.
“Not in my day. Not in my day,” he said. “I never thought I would see it in my time.”
The Oklahoma City man voted for Barack Obama and watched the election unfold on the big screen TV in his den Tuesday night. It was, Jones said, t...
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