Seven years after their daughter's birth, they split up because Melba wants to be a reporter and work, and John wants a housewife. Melba goes to journalism school at Columbia and becomes a reporter.
From life after death to the benefits of worldly living.
Because he was assassinated. He was assassinated very soon after the war ended and there was no time to do everything he wanted to do. Other people took over and started implementing reconstruction ideas and eventually it turned into more exploitation and segregation and racism.
