H/T to Ricky Riccardi for this article.
In his 1954 autobiography, “Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans,” Armstrong writes that when he was arrested in 1913, he “had no idea what a Waifs Home was” — even though he had been sent to the home just three years earlier.
“This is mind-blowing,” said Ricky Riccardi, archivist at the Louis Armstrong House and Museum in New York City’s borough of Queens and author of “What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years.”
“I’ve been spending half my life researching Armstrong, and this is a breakthrough.”
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