When President John F. Kennedy came to Pueblo on Aug. 17, 1962, more than 100,000 people lined the road that's now U.S. 50 to catch a glimpse of the president as he traveled from Pueblo Memorial Airport to the school stadium that is now Dutch Clark.
Pueblo District Attorney Jeff Chostner — who was just 11 years old at the time — was not one of them.
Like most little kids, Chostner had other priorities. Rather than joining his grandparents and cousins, who lived on the East Side and stood among the crowds on Fourth Street, he spent the day playing baseball on the old diamond at East High School.