5/21/2023 0 Comments The risk elle kennedy book buy![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Construction workers working on the Municipal Building paused to watch the motorcade, "dangling their legs above the street from unfinished parts of the building" ( The Seattle Times). Police reports estimated the number at 25,000 to 30,000 in one report and 50,000 in another. Greater Seattle, Inc., which organized the event, estimated the crowd to be 90,000. Twenty-six different bands serenaded the president. Spectators overflowed the streets and threw confetti from buildings. ![]() On a clear, crisp November day, President Kennedy, Senator Magnuson, and Washington Governor Albert Rosellini (1910-2011) rode an open convertible in a 20-automobile presidential motorcade from Boeing Field to a 15-block long "Welcome Lane" extending along 4th Avenue from Jefferson Street to Stewart Street. Magnuson, like Kennedy a Democrat, was elected to the House of Representatives in 1936. He is also in Seattle to attend a dinner that evening celebrating the 25th anniversary of Senator Warren Magnuson (1905-1989) in Congress. Kennedy (1917-1963), the 35th president of the United States, delivers a major foreign policy speech at the University of Washington Centennial Convocation. ![]()
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