Betty Reid Soskin: The extraordinary life of the nation’s oldest park ranger
Berkeleyside
January 7, 2018
Betty Reid Soskin, 96, considers herself “an absolutely ordinary extraordinary person.”
Soskin has dated Jackie Robinson, co-founded Reid’s Records in Berkeley with her first husband, served as a “bag lady” (delivering cash) for the Black Panthers, and hobnobbed with the leaders of the human potential movement as a faculty wife with her second husband. Read More