Far older than you. Was 26 then, had worked at Repub HQ in Grand Rapids, went in as a volunteer and they discovered I was good at raising money. Was at lunch with chairman of state finance committee who had come down from Detroit to ask me to come work at state Hq. Sat at a booth across from the bar, where a big TV was on. And there was Cronkite announcing JFK was dead.
State chairman and I were dismayed. We never wanted him dead. I went home immediately to my pre-schoolers and he went home to his. End of my career in politics. I had worked for a famous photographer at Dem National Convention in Chicago as a teenager, met JFK and Jackie, had good conversation with RFK there too. Beautiful and charming people, far far better Dems than today’s crop of idiot hustlers.
That was just his opinion but he was far from a fringe nut, he was a mainstream democrat and so it was based on what he saw and read in that time. But you never read that sentiment anywhere, you'd think he was going to be re-elected with a 50 state sweep and supermajority of the vote.
This was one thing that made me start questioning what gets written into history books about whether the whole story is really presented or if the authors have a bias one way or the other.
All a total façade hiding the ugliness that was the truth. That party in 1960 was just as much into race hustling and divisiveness as today. When they couldn't keep the Whites loyal, they were looking to their old group of slaves, the Blacks, to keep them in power by any means necessary. And they then unleashed that orgiastic Socialist agenda that FDR couldn't complete. So much for the beautiful people.
Until you learn of their dark lives and history. JFK was probably one of the worst people ever elected to the office. His father was a criminal who was never caught, probably because of his connections to the government.