John F. Kennedy's North Carolina Campaign

by John Allen Tucker

Overview

On September 17, 1960, Sen. John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee for president, flew to Greenville for a campaign rally on the campus of East Carolina College. Kennedy's ECC rally was part of a marathon daylong blitz that continued statewide through
Greensboro and Charlotte. The campaign intended to go as far west as Asheville but due to inclement weather concluded with dinner at the governor's mansion in Raleigh and a rally at Reynolds Coliseum.
With photographs as key primary sources, John F. Kennedy's North
Carolina Campaign explores what happened that day, why it happened,
and its significance in North Carolina's political history. While the book focuses on the East Carolina College rally, which was the first of the day, Kennedy's subsequent rallies ultimately bore statewide and national significance, making it impossible to examine only one stop without contextualizing it in relation to the remainder.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738592947
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	08/13/2012
Series:	Images of America Series
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	1,118,928
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 6.50(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

John Allen Tucker is a professor of history and university historian at East Carolina University in Greenville. In researching Kennedy's North Carolina campaign, he found hundreds of photographs of the rallies in the Daily Reflector Collection, J.Y. Joyner Library at East Carolina University; the North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library at UNC -Chapel Hill; and the North Carolina State Archives.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 6

Introduction 7

1 Overtures 9

2 Pitt-Greenville Airport 23

3 Farmers Warehouse 37

4 The Greenville Motorcade 49

5 East Carolina College Stadium 63

6 Greensboro Airport Rally 85

7 Charlotte 97

8 Raleigh 105

9 Celebration and Tragedy 115