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Laval Hardy and Mary Jones
Laval Hardy booked another show for Mary Jones as Aretha Franklin. He didn't want anyone to get a close-up look at her. No one really suspected a thing. In 1969, in the South, this would not be the place for a young African-American woman to be out on her own looking for help.