JFK: I'll Be Back in '64

JFK: I'll Be Back in 1964

Field review by the editors.

  Waterbury,   Connecticut  

In 1962 President Kennedy stood near this spot, now marked with a bronze plaque, and promised a cheering crowd of 50,000 that he'd return to Waterbury on "the last week of the 1964 campaign." JFK couldn't keep his promise; he was assassinated in 1963. The plaque, however, asserts that "his pledge was fulfilled" anyway, on its intended anniversary, when it was dedicated by -- President Kennedy's brother, Bobby Kennedy.

Bobby made no pledge to return on the last week of his 1968 presidential campaign, by which time he had also been assassinated.