Recently saw this photo of him from July 1960.
"Sen. John F. Kennedy, sitting with Milwaukee Councilwoman Velvalea Rodgers “Vel” Phillips," first black Attorney General of Wisconsin, "at civil rights rally at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Sen. Kennedy is asking Times photographer, “No pictures, please.”
From another source, "He was supposed to be there on the down low. He was facing enough opposition already for being Catholic; being publicly identified with Dr King and other Black leaders might lose the whole South for him."
That's understandable but he was making the effort to reach out, a no brainer to me during his candidacy, that Sanders is having such a time with.
“We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the scriptures and as clear as the American Constitution,” Kennedy as president said in his televised civil rights address to the nation. I wonder if this wasn't one of the reasons to assassinate him.
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http://framework.latimes.com/2015/03/06/civil-rights-protests-at-1960-democratic-convention/
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