It’s been 65 years since Joe Caliro of Portsmouth tried to contact baseball superstar Jackie Robinson.Caliro was a training instructor at the time, teaching boot camp classes at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi. Caliro was working on a lesson plan to orient young airmen from across the country to the harsh ways of the segregated South. Although the military was integrated, Blacks in the surrounding community were assigned separate water fountains and restrooms and required to
