To mark the 100th birthday of former President John F. Kennedy(May 29), the Waterbury 3a.m. Committee held a meeting Thursday at the Silas Bronson Library.
The group hosts events to mark and remember the November 6th, 1960 Kennedy rally held on the Waterbury town green. Kennedy spoke from a hotel balcony at 3a.m. to a crowd estimated at 30,000.
Sherman London, a reporter who was on the green that night, was a special guest.
In 2000, former WFSB news director Dick Ahles wrote an article for the New York Times about the JFK visit.
Twenty-four years after the Kennedy rally, in 1984, former President Reagan held a similar event toward the end of that campaign, but it was in the middle of the afternoon.
