October 19th, 1960. When Jack and Jackie climbed into their convertible for the parade, rain seemed imminent. But according to an enthusiastic report in the next day’s New York Times, “just as he was about to start up Broadway from Whitewall Street, the sun shone as if a switch had been turned on.” By the time the motorcade reached Wall Street, the crush of the crowd was so intense that Jackie told a reporter, “It felt like the sides of the car were bending.” According to Mayer Robert Wagner Jr., the turnout for Kennedy’s ticker-tape parade was “the greatest reception anybody has ever received in this section of the city in its history.”AKA: Kennedy weather
