From 1960, JFK in Johnstown, PA (Dialup Warning: Photo)

[Junkdrawer]

[momzno1]

1. can you ever imagine the chimperor so exposed?

What a fantastic piece of history.

[yurbud]

4. he is either deathly afraid of people or Karl knows Bush can't restrain his bald head rubbing fetish

"Hey, you gotta pretty nob fella, I'm gonna touch it...Now reach down inta yur preznet's pants and give him some relief..."

[spillthebeans]

5. I'm not sure if JFK had cops on the roofs in Dallas

when he died .. he was pretty much security stripped


The other question about Chimp is, can you get such a huge preselected audience that likes him?

[Junkdrawer]

2. ..Or so loved....n/t

[Captain Hilts]

3. Wow! That's cool! My mother's from 'Flood City'! nt

[Aviation Pro]

6. This was back when the mighty Conemaugh....

...provided the water to make the steel mills run. If you went back to Johnstown now you'd see a lot of shuttered up buildings and a very depressed atmosphere.

[Junkdrawer]

14. It was worse in the early 80s...

By now, the city has adjusted somewhat. Many of the unemployed youth moved to Washington, DC during the great (ironic) expansion of government under Reagan. Many of the retired or near-retired stayed because of the collapse of the real estate market.

[Hav]

7. .

Another great pic of an event where JFK made history:

[RB TexLa]

10. I much prefer this one as a history making foreign trip

[Cameron27]

8. It's that sad anniversary again...

:cry:

I was only a chid, but I'll never forget him.

[The Gunslinger]

9. Yea J-town

My hometown. I wasnt born then though. Im gonna have to ask my family aabout that. I never in knew he was ever there. Thats cool.

[DavidDvorkin]

11. Pictures of JFK still depress me

I was in college when he was assassinated. Like other people, I remember that day vividly.

[Junkdrawer]

12. FYI:

The photo was taken outside of the Gautier Works of Bethlehem Steel.

A friend I was visting last year had it on his office wall, and I got a Xerox. It's been on my office wall ever since and today I took it down and scanned it.

[Bunny]

13. Lot of Johnstowners on this thread.

It's my hometown too. Nice picture.

[Aviation Pro]

15. Of course one of the biggest things ever to hit Johnstown....

...besides the flood was this:



Filmed in Johnstown, featuring Paul Newman and, of course, those fabulous Hanson brothers.

[bleedingheart]

16. my mom went to hear him speak in McKeesport PA...

she said she shook his hand...she cried and cried for him when he died.

[rateyes]

17. I shook Ronald Reagan's hand...

and didn't shed a tear when he died.

[rateyes]

18. On the Grand Concourse in the Bronx:

[Lugnut]

19. That looks familiar

When JFK campaigned in Hazleton the scene was pretty much the same. I was in 10th grade at the time. I voluteered to be a Kennedy Girl along with many others from my high school.

[troubleinwinter]

20. UC Berkeley, March 1962. I was there. 88,000 people.

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

22. That's the Greek Theater, right?

Bob Marley levitated that place back in the day...

[troubleinwinter]

23. It was at Memorial Stadium

The crowd was 88,000-90,000, according to 'the internets'.

A snip from that day:

"...we must think and act not only for the moment but for our time. I am reminded of the story of the great French Marshal Lyauty, who once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow-growing and would not reach maturity for a hundred years. The Marshal replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose, plant it this afternoon.'"
~John F. Kennedy, Address at UC Berkeley, Charter Day, March 1962

The Greek Theater only holds about 8,500. It sure is the place for music concerts!! Here's a memory for ya:

[OzarkDem]

24. Great quote! n/t

[Junkdrawer]

21. .