J.D.'s encounters with the advanced alien race begin in Los Angeles in the late 1950s, when he's just a boy and continues through his early adulthood amid the turbulent Civil Rights era. As the extraterrestrials reveal cosmic insight into the nature of existence in the heavens and beyond, J.D. powers through racism and the Civil Rights movement, associating with key figures in history, such Elvis Presley, Liberace, Malcom X, Cassius Clay, as Black Panther founders, Nation of Islam, his San Jose State University track team teammates Tommie Smith, John Carlos, and Lee Evans, who threw a Black Power fist in the air at the 1968 Summer Olympics. As his world transforms before him, J.D.'s IQ only increases with the help of his otherworldly allies - he defies restrictions imposed on Black children by skipping a grade in school and his scientific knowledge scares his teachers so much, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the NSA are called in to quiz him on his advanced knowledge of nuclear explosions. J.D., who eventually becomes a physicist and medical doctor, passes on the extraterrestrials' knowledge as he describes his encounters in the pages within this first installment of his storyâ€Strange Acquaintances - Part 1