John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1917-1963 Since November 22, 1963, I have lost both of my parents, other relatives, and some good friends, but nothing has ever come close to the devastation I felt on that day. I can’t imagine that anything ever will. In the early 1960s, I ran the Alumni Office at Iolani…
I have now voted in 14 presidential elections. My first was in 1960 when I cast a vote for John F. Kennedy. Two years earlier, when JFK ran for re-election to the Senate from Massachusetts, I was a junior at Boston University. As a radio/television major, I was automatically on the staff of WBUR,…