In honor of election season, here’s a photo of John F. Kennedy visiting downtown Champaign on the presidential campaign trail in October 1960. The man beside him is Democratic Governor-to-be of Illinois Otto Kerner Jr., also campaigning that fall. This was not Senator Kennedy’s first visit to C-U. He was invited to speak at Senior [...]
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