Sweet concert! This is an ad in The Washington Post on February 11th, 1979 for a Kenny Rogers concert. Almost 35 years ago, this was a Sunday, and while Washingtonians were heading to Landover for the concert, the Shah in Iran fell and Ayatollah Khomeini took power.
![Kenny Rogers concert](https://ghostsofdc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2014/01/Screen-Shot-2014-01-18-at-10.28.30-AM.png)
Below is a video that we dug up on YouTube from the History Channel’s documentary “Crisis in Iran” narrated by Mike Wallace.