Thank you to Forgotten Los Angeles.
Senator John F. Kennedy on his way to the LA Memorial Coliseum to accept his party’s nomination for president on July 15, 1960.
I know that this year’s conventions are now officially over, but as I’ve said in previous posts, LIFE Magazine captured more than 5,000 photographs at the 1960 convention and there are still so many great ones that I want to share.
Starting this set off with my favorite of these images, then jumping back to Kennedy sitting in a different car, reviewing his speech with Frank D. Reeves, the first African-American member of the Democratic National Committee. He, as well as the unidentified woman in the back, were both also representatives of the NAACP.
Slide 3, they look to be turning onto Flower from 4th.
Slide 4, Kennedy’s sisters are in the backseat. L-to-R: Jean Smith, Patricia Lawford, and Eunice Shriver.
Slide 7, from L-to-R: Minnesota Governor Orville Freeman JFK, LBJ, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Joe Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, and Hubert Humphrey.
Slide 11, leaving the Coliseum, headed to the Mauretania Apartments in Hancock Park where Kennedy was staying.
These were taken by photographers Paul Schutzer, Howard Sochurek, and Edward Clark for LIFE.
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