My first political memory is of the 1956 Democratic political convention; Stevenson did not pick a VP candidate, but instead left it to the convention to choose on an open ballot. Estes Kefauver edged out Senator John Kennedy of Massachusetts for the job, which was a flaming train wreck of a campaign against an unbeatabled Ike.
Then in 1960, I was a 10 year old Irish Catholic kid delighted in the victory of another vibrant, young, Irish Catholic kid.
In November, 1963 I was a high school freshman, at the high school where my father was the assistant principal. One of his jobs was giving the end-of-day announcements over the PA; on that day, he told us he had some bad news, and I thought he was going to chew out the band for screwing around during morning rehearsal. I can still tap out the marching rythym of the funeral procession: pum pum pum rumpapa pum pum pum rumpapa pum pum pum rumpapa pum pum pa pum.
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