Jimmy Essex pulled the same stunt in New Orleans in 1974.
Same issues.
A Terrible Thunder by Peter Hernon is the definitive work on it.
They DID utilize a helicopter to get him.
Hotel was a Howard Johnsons then.
Now a Holiday Inn with a big claironet painted on it.
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