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It was another summer night in 1981. Hundreds of people gathered for a tea dance at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Kansas City, Mo., on July 17.
Among them were Karen Jeter, 37, and her husband, Eugene, 48, who had just gotten married a couple of weeks earlier. She was a really good dancer. Loved to dance, loved music. She s the one that taught me how to dance, said Karen s son, Brent Wright. They were really wonderful people.
Television crews were also at the Hyatt Regency that night to cover the social event in the hotel s lobby. Years later, Wright would watch footage of Karen and Eugene Jeter on a national news show.
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