JFK, NC and Me
September 21, 2010 - by
The N&O had a letter today and a guest column last week about John Kennedy’s campaign visit to North Carolina
I had my own brush with history that day. Kennedy was campaigning with Terry Sanford, who was running for governor. Sanford had broken with most of the North Carolina
On the way to Reynolds Coliseum that night, the Kennedy-Sanford motorcade made a brief stop in Raleigh ’s Glenwood Village Glenwood Avenue
My family lived about a mile away, and somehow my mother knew about the stop. So she hauled me and my two younger brothers (the youngest was still a babe in arms) down there. She managed to push her way to the candidates’ cars, and I got to shake JFK’s hand.
The N&O column, by ECU Professor John Tucker, recalled Kennedy’s visit that same trip to Greenville Pitt County
Kennedy carried North Carolina N.C. State
Hunt likes to boast today that JFK later credited the College Democrats, especially in Orange County
Hunt did his job so well he was hired a year or so later to organize college campuses across the country for the Democratic National Committee. He and his family lived in Washington
The 1960 campaign was where Hunt first caught the attention of Sanford and his campaign manager, Bert Bennett. Bennett later became Hunt’s political mentor and was instrumental in his first race for governor.
That’s the direct line – now 50 years past – between John Kennedy’s visit to North Carolina
JFK, NC and Me
September 21, 2010/
The N&O had a letter today and a guest column last week about John Kennedy’s campaign visit to North Carolina
I had my own brush with history that day. Kennedy was campaigning with Terry Sanford, who was running for governor. Sanford had broken with most of the North Carolina
On the way to Reynolds Coliseum that night, the Kennedy-Sanford motorcade made a brief stop in Raleigh ’s Glenwood Village Glenwood Avenue
My family lived about a mile away, and somehow my mother knew about the stop. So she hauled me and my two younger brothers (the youngest was still a babe in arms) down there. She managed to push her way to the candidates’ cars, and I got to shake JFK’s hand.
The N&O column, by ECU Professor John Tucker, recalled Kennedy’s visit that same trip to Greenville Pitt County
Kennedy carried North Carolina N.C. State
Hunt likes to boast today that JFK later credited the College Democrats, especially in Orange County
Hunt did his job so well he was hired a year or so later to organize college campuses across the country for the Democratic National Committee. He and his family lived in Washington
The 1960 campaign was where Hunt first caught the attention of Sanford and his campaign manager, Bert Bennett. Bennett later became Hunt’s political mentor and was instrumental in his first race for governor.
That’s the direct line – now 50 years past – between John Kennedy’s visit to North Carolina