[Tall_Texan]

Vaughn Meador was supposedly on a plane to Las Vegas on the day JFK was gunned down. As popular as his act was, Meador was a one-trick pony and his entertainment career died in Dallas just as surely as Kennedy's had.

Meador was greeted by someone as he got off the plane. The person asked: "Do you know Kennedy's been shot?"

Thinking it was a joke, Meador used his Kennedy voice to reply "No, but if you'll hum a few bars, I'll try to fake it." Suddenly, nobody wanted to hear anyone cracking jokes with a Hyannisport accent.

Meador's life went all over the map after that from street person to minister until he died a few years ago.

[Lancey Howard]

Thanks for the interesting post.
I had wondered whatever became of Meader.

I have, over the past two years, seen an old Dick Van Dyke episode on TVLand where Dick and the other cast members are entertained by some comedian they know who does Kennedy (and other) imitations for them, cracking jokes. It was filmed in 1963 and it is eerie to watch.