JFK ARRIVES IN L.A. AS FRONT-RUNNER
Los Angeles, California (JFK+50) On July 9, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts arrived here in Los Angeles as the clear front-runner for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Despite that fact, JFK still faced competition in the balloting from several other Democrats including Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas.
In addition, former President Harry S Truman expressed reservations about a Kennedy nomination and had asked JFK to "step aside" for a more experienced candidate.
Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt also balked at the prospect of Senator Kennedy being the party's nominee. She would give a seconding speech for Adlai Stevenson and in her memoirs expressed misgivings about the primary system. She wrote...
"the candidates spend their time running down their rivals in the same party (and) furnish a large amount of ammunition to the opposition party."
Future Watergate Committee chairman Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, a delegate at the 1960 Democratic Convention, expressed distaste of a prospective Kennedy nomination by holding up a July 13th late edition of the Los Angeles Herald which read...
"SENATOR KENNEDY SLIPPING AS NOMINATION NEARS"
SOURCES
"The Democratic Convention of 1960," The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, the Eleanor Roosevelt papers.
"1960 Democratic National Convention," www.wikiwand.com/
"1960 Democratic Convention (Sam Ervin)," www.dc.lib.unc.edu/
Senator Kennedy Arrives in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California (JFK+50) On July 9, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts arrived here in Los Angeles as the clear front-runner for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Despite that fact, JFK still faced competition in the balloting from several other Democrats including Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas.
In addition, former President Harry S Truman expressed reservations about a Kennedy nomination and had asked JFK to "step aside" for a more experienced candidate.
Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt also balked at the prospect of Senator Kennedy being the party's nominee. She would give a seconding speech for Adlai Stevenson and in her memoirs expressed misgivings about the primary system. She wrote...
"the candidates spend their time running down their rivals in the same party (and) furnish a large amount of ammunition to the opposition party."
Future Watergate Committee chairman Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, a delegate at the 1960 Democratic Convention, expressed distaste of a prospective Kennedy nomination by holding up a July 13th late edition of the Los Angeles Herald which read...
"SENATOR KENNEDY SLIPPING AS NOMINATION NEARS"
SOURCES
"The Democratic Convention of 1960," The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, the Eleanor Roosevelt papers.
"1960 Democratic National Convention," www.wikiwand.com/
"1960 Democratic Convention (Sam Ervin)," www.dc.lib.unc.edu/
Senator Kennedy Arrives in Los Angeles
July 9, 1960
JFK Library Photo
