Madison, January 20, 1961 - JFK and Madison
Madison in the Sixties – January 20, 1961 In 1960, Sen. John F. Kennedy didn’t carry Madison in the Democratic presidential primary or Wisconsin in the general election. But his candidacy still had a profound local impact. His primary campaign against Sen. Hubert Humphrey created enough Badgerland bitterness to last for years, even damaging the federal judiciary. And his election utterly transformed local politics, and ended the effort to build Frank Lloyd Wright’s Monona Terrace auditorium and convention center. Kennedy’s advisors didn’t want him entering the primary against the fr...
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