Primary (1960)

Primary 1960 Its the tail end of winter in 1960 U S Senators Hubert Humphrey and John Kennedy seek the Democratic Partys nomination for President Wisconsins primary one of the few direct primaries at the time is on April 5 We see both candidates on the road its retail politics, shaking hands, signing autographs, smiling We hear part of a standard stump speech from Kennedy we watch Humphrey talk to farmers in a rural hall Kennedy is favored We see his wife, his brother Robert briefly, and on election night his sisters Pat and Eunice Jacqueline speaks a few words of Polish at a Milwaukee rally The returns come in its on to Indiana and West Virginia