The President's Visit to Chapel Hill--October 12, 1961
The Charlotte News--October 12, 1961 and part two of the headline story, plus the prepared text of the President's remarks, from which he apparently extemporized substantially, and part two of "JFK Talks to Throng" and part two of the Trade Fair story; Hargrove Bowles, with the President, incidentally later ran for Governor in 1972 and lost to James Holshouser of Boone. Mr. Bowles's son, Erskine, later served the Clinton Administration as Chief of Staff between 1993 and 1997, and ran unsuccessfully twice as Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from North Carolina, in 2002, losing to Elizabeth Dole, and in 2004, losing to Richard Burr.
Terry Sanford, of course, later assumed the presidency of Duke University and was elected to the Senate from North Carolina in 1986, serving one term; long a liberal voice in North Carolina politics, he would be a favorite son candidate for the Presidency during the 1970's.
Charlotte News editorial of October 12 regarding the visit. Note the editorial also by Ralph McGill of the Atlanta Constitution, with whom the President sometimes consulted and considered a friend, though this particular editorial appears critical of Administration policy in 1961. McGill, incidentally, is quoted in the Red Clay Reader section of this site regarding his views in the mid-1960's of Cash's death. McGill had met Cash in March, 1941 when Cash was in Atlanta promoting the book, at the invitation of Rich's Department Store and Peggy Marsh.
Charlotte News, October 11, 1961, regarding anticipation in Chapel Hill of the President's visit, and editorial and feature article of October 12 on same.
This and this miscellany, from the same edition. If you don't understand these inclusions, be patient. It will come to you.
Charlotte News, October 13, 1961 and second part of 82d Airborne Review story, and second part of speech story. The omniscient caption painter for this Page might have set it all up as: Past, Present, and Back to the Future. But that's just our opinion.
Chapel Hill Weekly, October 9, 1961.
Chapel Hill Weekly, October 12, 1961, and page two, and page three, and page four.
Well, after reading all of that carefully, one might question philosophically and metaphysically whether or not, perhaps, we are all, in this state of things, on this side of the river, so to speak, in a kind of purgatory, or restless waiting, the collectivity being naughty at times, losing that which we have of wisdom in our midst to violent nightmare on occasion--nightmare, however, only for us the living, as we perceive it. But, who knows? Just one perception of many from which to view it all. Yet, it stirs one, does it not, to believe in a consciousness beyond, perhaps, that which is merely extant now?
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