1964 - Edward Kennedy’s plane crash & Presidential Election Day

June 19, 1964 - Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy is involved in a plane crash in which one of his aides and the pilot were killed. He was pulled from the wreckage by fellow senator Birch E. Bayh II (D-Ind.) and spent weeks in a hospital recovering from a broken back, a punctured lung, broken ribs, and internal bleeding November 5, 1964 - United States Presidential Election The voice of the people was heard in the land. Sixty-eight million citizens of the United States go to the polls to exercise their