It is not surprising that, when describing his alien abductors years later, Barney pictured them in military caps like those worn by Nazi soldiers. A high school dropout, Barney joined the Army and served three years in World War II as a truck driver. Three years younger, Barney Hill was born on Jat Newport News, Virginia and evolved into an unflinching activist. When Gulf Oil offered to buy and demolish her house to build a gas station, she negotiated twice the price, then purchased her own house back for a dollar and moved it to a nearby lot where she lived until her death in 2004. She shrewdly spent her settlement on a house on a busy street in Portsmouth. When that marriage ended in divorce after 14 years, Betty returned to UNH, graduated in 1958 and became a social worker. She worked as a waitress in a seacoast diner, married the cook and adopted his three children. "She may have had a problem as a result of that because so many people of that time were not accepting of racial equality."īetty took a fateful break from college just as the United States entered World War II. "She was very active," Dr Franklin, age 87, says today. Betty spoke out for liberal issues and supported her friend in difficult times. At the University of New Hampshire Betty socialized with Franklin, the only African-American on campus. Mary Ann Franklin, that she asked her parents permission to join a passing circus as an acrobat in training. Betty wanted to leave the family farm so badly, according to college friend Dr. Spunky, agile, intelligent, and creative, she always saw herself as special, destined for great things. An interracial couple married in 1960, they lived in an era when discrimination was rampant, even in New England.Įunice Elizabeth ("Betty") Barrett was born on Jand grew up on a Kingston, NH farm. Even before their UFO adventure, real or imagined, Betty and Barney were truth seekers, fighting against social injustice and inequality. ![]() It is the marriage of two activist souls. ![]() Let’s think of this, instead, as a love story. ![]() But the international publicity that followed threatened to tear them apart. Their shared nightmare, revealed through hypnosis, united the Portsmouth couple. It made them, for a time, one of the most famous couples in America. Their alleged abduction in the White Mountains on Septemcame to define the rest of their days. Let’s forget for a moment that Betty and Barney Hill claimed they were taken aboard an alien UFO. NOTE: This article & its images may not be copied or reproduced without permission. But we can all agree that Betty and Barney Hill enjoyed one of America’s most fascinating interracial love affairs. Believes will believe, skeptics will not. No one can prove or disprove that this New Hampshire couple was taken aboard an alien spacecraft.
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