In his speech at Cal on March 23, 1962. Friday is the 50th anniversary of his assassination. What was the "nearby" college he attended? Was he taking classes at Furd?

He attended Stanford Business School

One thing is sure. He probably got laid, win or lose.

GB54;842228511 said:

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He attended Stanford Business School

One thing is sure. He probably got laid, win or lose.

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Ah at least he played it nicely saying it was podunk school down the street.

KoreAmBear;842228492 said:

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In his speech at Cal on March 23, 1962. Friday is the 50th anniversary of his assassination. What was the "nearby" college he attended? Was he taking classes at Furd?

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I think he was auditing courses. He wasn't an official student at Stanford.

He had just graduated from Harvard in the spring, and wanted to take some classes.

I have this great book, which details his life in Palo Alto in the fall of 1940, including all the women he slept with.

(That's all the time he spent there.)

http://www.paloaltohistory.com/jfk.php

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Although certainly not all Palo Altans knew it at the time, the city had briefly played host to John F. Kennedy some 23 years earlier. During the fall of 1940, a young JFK had spent a few pivotal months at Stanford University as he audited business school classes and tried to figure out what to do with his life. It was a turning point for the recent Harvard graduate who at the time was being pulled in a great many directions.

Although he was the son of Joseph Kennedy, the wealthy businessman and Ambassador to the United Kingdom, young Jack was not necessarily the chosen son. That role had been reserved for his older brother Joe Jr., who was already at Harvard Law and seemed destined for great things. Not that the second Kennedy boy was any sort of black sheep. With some help from his father, he had already become a best-selling author after publishing his senior thesis on English appeasement as the book, Why England Slept. The Harvard yearbook had even named Jack Kennedy “Most likely to become president.”

But Kennedy was perhaps not as confident about his future as were his peers. For one, he was constantly battling health problems. Along with jaundice and digestive troubles, JFK had recently injured his back playing tennis and spent 10 days in bed at the Lahey Clinic. And Kennedy seemed a bit unsure about which career path to take. He had thoughts of becoming “an author or writer of some sort,” possibly following his father into business or maybe going to law school. Besides, as war loomed on the horizon, nobody Jack’s age really knew what the future held.

So having heard his Harvard roommate Tom Killefer extol the beauty and climate of Stanford University, Jack figured he’d head out to California, get some warmth for his ailing back and audit a few classes at the Stanford Business School while waiting to see what happened next.

In mid-September 1940, Kennedy arrived in Palo Alto in his brand-new cactus green Buick convertible with red seats and checked into the President Hotel on University Avenue. After getting a lay of the land, he rented the one-bedroom cottage behind the campus house of Miss Gertrude Gardiner at 624 Mayfield Avenue. For sixty bucks a month, it was a pretty good deal, plus he didn’t have to pay for a new bed as he took to sleeping on a plywood board at night to help his back.

As it turned out, Kennedy wasn’t really all that interested in business studies. Politics was clearly his field of choice, as evidenced by his hearty participation in Professor Thomas Barclay’s seminar analyzing the on-going 1940 presidential race as well as “Contemporary World Politics” with Professor Graham Stuart. He was fascinated with the war in Europe and not only because his father’s support for a somewhat incongruous position with that of President Roosevelt. Jack actually had thoughts of his own on the war and they bent toward a much more hawkish stance than that of his father.

But despite his clear intelligence and interest in academics, Jack was also living the fast life for which the Kennedy men would become rather famous. Jack was well-known down on El Camino’s restaurant row, entertaining the ladies at L’Omelette and Dinah’s Shack regularly. His primary girlfriend at the time was Pi Beta Phi sorority girl Harriet “Flip” Price, but he was far less serious about the relationship than she wished. He dated lots of other girls, driving up and back to the city at dangerous speeds on Bayshore Highway. He also spent some time downstate with the Hollywood set, palling around with family friends like Robert Stack and meeting the likes of Clark Gable, Lana Turner and Spencer Tracy --- and lots more girls. Perhaps tellingly, his favorite phrase in those days was “Slam, bam, thank you ma’am.”

During his stay at Stanford, the prospect of potential American involvement in the war continued to grow. In mid-October of 1940, the peacetime draft was enacted, a measure supported by Kennedy, who was a member of the Stanford National Emergency Committee. Kennedy registered on campus on October 18th, with some apprehension --- not because he worried about serving, but because he feared he could not. Due to his bad back and other ailments, it seemed unlikely that Jack would ever be put in uniform. But as he wrote to friend Lem Billings, “They will never take me in the Army and yet if I don’t go, it will look quite bad.” A year later, family connections would help him become a Navy lieutenant where he won the Navy and Marine Corps Medal as commander of the famed boat, PT-109.

In the end, John Kennedy’s stay at Stanford would come to a rather anti-climactic end. A trip back east to help his father write his memoirs took him away from campus. Kennedy planned to return to Stanford for the spring term, but his passion and heart lay not at Stanford and the business school but in politics and World War II. Instead of returning to Stanford in 1941 he ended up travelling to South America and then making his way into the United States Navy.

Years later as those in Palo Alto mourned the passing of the president, there were many at Stanford for whom the tragedy hit especially hard. For they knew Jack Kennedy… []

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http://tinyurl.com/lek2nc8

Did you see his Tweet-like essay into Harvard?

http://www.businessinsider.com/personal-essay-application-jfk-get-into-harvard-2013-11

KoreAmBear;842228532 said:

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Did you see his Tweet-like essay into Harvard?

http://www.businessinsider.com/personal-essay-application-jfk-get-into-harvard-2013-11

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KoreAmBear;842228492 said:

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In his speech at Cal on March 23, 1962. Friday is the 50th anniversary of his assassination. What was the "nearby" college he attended? Was he taking classes at Furd?

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I just want to say thanks for posting this.

I made a post about the 50th anniversary of the speech last year.

But at the time, there was only a partial version of the speech online.

It's awesome to see the whole thing was posted this year.

okaydo;842228527 said:

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http://www.paloaltohistory.com/jfk.php

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Robert Stack!? From Unsolved Mysteries?? Well, I'll be.

grandmastapoop;842228899 said:

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Robert Stack!? From Unsolved Mysteries?? Well, I'll be.

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What's Unsolved Mysteries? Robert Stack is Ultra Magnus from Transformers, not sure if he ever did anything else.

OskiMD;842228904 said:

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What's Unsolved Mysteries? Robert Stack is Ultra Magnus from Transformers, not sure if he ever did anything else.

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Sh-t, you're old.

grandmastapoop;842228927 said:

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Sh-t, you're old.

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Robert Stack was and always will be Eliot F'in Ness, The Untouchable of the The Untouchables



And yes, I'm old.

Tribute planned before tonight's Navy-SJSU game. JFK was of course a Navy man.

OskiMD;842228904 said:

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What's Unsolved Mysteries? Robert Stack is Ultra Magnus from Transformers, not sure if he ever did anything else.

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Not sure if he ever did anything else?! He was only in one of the greatest movies of all time!

oobay;842229182 said:

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Not sure if he ever did anything else?! He was only in one of the greatest movies of all time!

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"I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue."

I click on this thread and the next banner ad I receive is for Dean Martin's Celebrity Roasts, now on DVD. Thank you old timers.

Because JFK was a rat pack guy and now so are you. You should be hearing Frank as you read this

Marilyn Monroe, Chanel No. 5

"And yet I don't want to say nude, but it's the truth."

Sit back and imagine the good life.

SchadenBear;842229538 said:

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Marilyn Monroe, Chanel No. 5

"And yet I don't want to say nude, but it's the truth."

Sit back and imagine the good life.

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Is it any wonder this woman never dies? Screwing Arthur Miller, Joe DiMaggio and the Kennedys-the premier literary, sports and political figures of her time. A renaissance woman of the bedroom.

Didn't see it posted here yet, but Stanford beat Cal 13-7 in 1940

:headbang