My mom shook Jack Kennedy's hand - Do you have a JFK story? [View All]

[bleedingheart]

Jack Kennedy was coming to Pittsburgh to campaign and he was going to be at the old Syria Mosque. My aunt wanted to see him and she asked my mom to go. My mom told me she was doing wash at the time and didn't know if she wanted to go through the hassle of getting gussied up..(remember..this was the time when people got dressed up to go shopping)....but she told me that she thought "this guy might be president"...so she went and she shook his hand......

She never went to see another presidential candidate until I took her to an Al Gore speech at CMU. My mom had tears in her eyes as she related her previous experience to this older fellow...they were both crying about it.... it was really sweet.