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There was a mock election in 1960 that tried to get ten-year olds involved in politics. In the boys class Kennedy got exactly one vote from the shy girl who had to have special menus on Friday because she was a Catholic. All others voted just as their parents did for Nixon. Early in the year he]d been to Youell Field in Oakland to watch his dad play softball. The older brother was with him and they noticed a big crowd in front of the Oakland Auditorium, adjacent to the field. They made their way over railroad tracks to see what the excitement was about. Standing on a plaform were John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnsn, both with black top hats like men wore in movies from the 1930's. They couldn't hear what was said but it made an impression on the boy. He started reading about politics. He couldn't grasp what a president was but they had stature. That night in Oakland they looked regal and without taint.

And then in '62 or '63 President Kennedy came to Berkeley to speak and the boy followed all the local radio and TV coverage He didn't see him anywhere but on the TV.

Kennedy was the first president that stuck in his mind. Kennedy had promoted a physical fitness program the boy used in Boy Scouts. The President seemed to be on TV every week at a press conference.The world stopped when he was shot. It was beyond the boy. What was death? But for a year everytime he saw a picture of the late President he felt a twinge, a glancing blow to his developing emotions.

The weird thing after that happened was that the girls were showing up in class with buttons on their sweaters. "I love George," or "I love Paul." The teachers finally asked them what the buttons were about and so he first heard about the Beatles and before long, especially after A Hard Days Night, all the boys wanted to play guitars and rock and roll music. The boy stuck with the clarinet but gave that up when he got to high school. Also in '64 the older brother joined the Navy after a horrible fight with the dad. The older brother had been his hero and leader all through childhood and with him suddenly gone, it was a different place.

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