My Kennedy memories

The first and only time I ever saw Ted Kennedy was at the State Democratic Convention held in my hometown of Thermopolis, Wyoming. It was April 1960, my senior year of high school, and my senior Social Studies was let out for the afternoon to go to the convention. Ted Kennedy was there working the delegates for his brother, Senator John Kennedy. Hubert Humphrey, along with several other prominent Democrats, was there also campaigning for delegate votes. Ted Kennedy must have done a pretty good job because at the National Democratic Convention Wyoming delegates put John Kennedy over the top and he won the Presidential election that fall.
I don't know if it was a payback to the 1960 delegates but President John Kennedy spoke at the Field House on the University of Wyoming campus, which ironically was my senior year of college, before a crowd estimated to be 12,000-15,000 of us in attendance. Another irony-Dick Cheney was a student at UW at that time. The date was October, 1963 and President Kennedy was assassinated approximately one month later.