Robert Kennedy visits Saranac Lake
Senator Kennedy, with his hand outreached to the crowd, visits Riverside Park in Saranac Lake. That smiling fellow to the left of Kennedy is John Fogarty, town Democratic chairman, behind Kennedy, an aide, over his shoulder is Mayor Howard Riley and to the right is Parks Superintendent George Bedore.
(Enteprise file photo)
Robert Kennedy, in his run for the U.S. Senate, arrived at the Adirondack Regional Airport in June 1964, and I, as host mayor of Saranac Lake, rounded up all the Democrats in town and we all got in one car and drove out to the airport. (He was elected Senator the following November, and four years later (40 years ago on June 4, 1968), he was assassinated. There was a large gathering of Franklin County Democrats there to greet him. We had borrowed a Cadillac convertible, so we could bring him into town in style. I guess he thought that wouldn’t look too good for a rich man to be riding into town in the Caddy and wanting to be a man of the people, who he was, so he refused. So we hustled around and borrowed a Ford Falcon convertible from Spence Egglefield, and I believe all the Democrats in Essex County drove out to the airport in that car. The wrong questions I was city editor of the Enterprise at the time, and my good friend, the late Peter Winsto
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Saranac Lake news, 1942-43
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