John Kennedy's historic stop in Merced

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John Kennedy greets Merced

Sept. 9, 1960


John Kennedy's whistle-stop in Merced just before his historic win over Richard Nixon in the 1960 election. 


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John Kennedy greets Merced

Sept. 9, 1960


There's only one photo that is up close and Kennedy's eyes are closed in that one.




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This page contains a single entry by Jesse Chenault published on September 16, 2009 11:45 PM.

Nixon visits Merced too is the next entry in this blog.

Jesse Chenault is the copy desk chief at the Sun-Star and a former staff photographer. The purpose of this blog is to share photos from the newspaper's archives that hopefully spur a discussion about our area's history, photography or the events, people and places pictured here. Feel free to log in and contribute information about the pictures. He'll try to give as many details as he can about names, dates, places but some of the information is fairly sketchy. E-mail him at jchenault@mercedsun-star.com. Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.

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