Who remembers the 1960 DNC?

[Raven]

I'm such an oldie that I do...vividly. I was 13 or 14 years old and at camp. I had the top bunk and a transistor radio. I listened to JFK getting the nomination and it was thrilling...it faded in and out but I heard it and knew that I was a witness to history being made. Tonight, none of the channels that I get up here in the woods is carrying the DNC until 10 pm so I am listening to the speeches on NHNPR...it's like going back in time.

[ThomWV]

1. Yes

I was 12 in the late summer of 1959, I remember it as much for how important it was to my parents as anything else. It was my introduction to the adult world of political awareness.

Thom

[Raven]

3. Me too!

It was really the beginning. There have been so many losses since. I hope this is a new beginning.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Oh, yeah--I remember.

It musta been 2 am or something when JFK got the nom. I was up watching it alone, my parents were asleep & I woke them up with the news. They weren't happy abouit having their sleep disturbed.

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. I remember watching the 1956 convention....

...and wondering why my parents liked Eisenhower vs. Stevenson.

Um, I was not quite 7 at the time. Go figure.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. Too young, but I was just telling my children at the dinner table about

watching the 76 convention with my dad when I was 6, and just feeling the excitement. My son is the age now that I was then. I hope he remembers this day...this week...in history forever! :hi:

[wish_I_could_vote]

6. I remember

and I have not been as excited about a candidate since then until now. And Kennedy did not have an Edwards !

[chieftain]

7. Massachusetts/Texas Caucus

I will never forget the joint caucus meeting where JFK and LBJ addressed . It was an early sign of Kennedy's wit and charm .

[Cleita]

8. Yes. I was still in college.

We didn't have television, but there were pictures of it in Life Magazine. I took one of the pictures with all the banners and flags flying and did a silk screen print for my art class. It was one of the few works of mine that my teacher thought good enough to put up for their annual student art sale.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. I remember!

For some reason, what sticks in my mind is Eleanor Roosevelt getting up and speaking in favor of Adlai Stevenson.

My parents were very anti-Catholic, so they were not pleased when JFK got the nomination. I'm pretty sure they voted for Nixon. :-(

However, in those days, all three networks provided nearly gavel-to-gavel coverage of the conventions, and most people watched when they could. Only the children were unhappy.

[DemBones DemBones]

10. I do! I remember seeing some of the 1956 convention coverage, too.

I guess we listened to it on the radio in 1952 but I don't remember it, though I remember Eisenhower winning.

I watched all of the convention in 1960, can still "see" LBJ walking around on the floor, wearing a cowboy hat, talking to people -- the dealmaker at work!

In 1972, I stayed up very late in our tent in the mountains and heard McGovern's acceptance speech on a transistor radio. Remember how late the nomination ran that year?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. All I remember about the 1956 conventions was

that I was six years old and mad because The Mickey Mouse Club was preempted.

To me, it was just a bunch of grown-ups standing in an auditorium and yelling.
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