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In reply to the discussion: Two Years before This Photo Was Taken, I Was a Campaign Volunteer for JFK [View all]Cherokee100
(273 posts)34. U do good work
U got a couple of yrs on me and I must say, ur postings r usually right on. JFK was a threat to the power brokers, so he had to go. I had old sergeant in the Marine Corps, who knew Oswald in Japan. He told us they always figured, Oswald was connected to Naval Intelligence or the CIA. No way, was he the shooter (more like a patsy)....
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Two Years before This Photo Was Taken, I Was a Campaign Volunteer for JFK [View all]
MineralMan
Jul 2022
OP
At both times I was too young to understand WHY they mattered or why I liked them.
Eliot Rosewater
Jul 2022
#4
Good for you, Jarqui. I wish I was more involved. My father and a sister definitely were.
erronis
Jul 2022
#62
Same with me. I went to my first political rally for him at St. Brenden's school audtorium
Peregrine Took
Jul 2022
#36
I volunteered for JFK too, Mineral Man. Got to see him in person from the third balcony rafters....
hedda_foil
Jul 2022
#61