John Peel’s photos of Kennedy during the 1960 election campaign in Dallas. Peel worked in the cotton industry at the time and the two men had a little chat about Peel’s ambitions in cotton
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Wasn’t he there (and at the MLK Washington March) because he was working on College Radio?
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He was, but his main job was in a cotton company that his father had connections with
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It’s a great back story
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1963. Peel is still in Dallas and now working in insurance. He hears JFK has been assassinated and heads straight for the Dallas Police Headquarters. He tells them he’s a reporter for the Liverpool Echo, a complete lie, and they let him in. Pictured below at the arraignment of Lee Harvey Oswald.
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