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They were going out for the evening and they were going to go to see the Canaberry Tales,

a movie at the Atlanta Art Theatre, which was located at the corner of Peachtree and 13th

Street.

So, I'm standing in front of the site of the theater with Michael Rose, Executive Vice President

of the Atlanta History Center.

And so they had gone to the Womens Club prior to going to the to the movie.

And just cutting across the street.

So yeah, they simply came out of the Womens Club and we're going to cross the street.

Margaret Mitchell was, at that point, America's reigning literary celebrity.

Author of Gone with the Wind, one of the best-selling American novels ever.

In Atlanta, she was beloved, a little pixie of a woman who stood for everything white

southerners of that generation wanted to stand for.

Beauty, wit, nostalgia.

People in Atlanta called her R Peggy.

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