For the first time in a long time, my photographer and his wife didn’t set the alarm clock. If I didn’t know better, I’d bet the wild California NASCAR group had worn them out – but even then, Tom and…
Tag: John F. Kennedy
52: BILL’S HOPE AND HOT SPRINGS
It was nearly 2:00pm on Tuesday August 2, 2016 when we arrived in Hope, Arkansas and the boyhood home of 42nd President Bill Clinton. I knew my photographer was excited to visit Clinton’s first home as Tom and Bill share…
48: WHERE THE CRICKETS ONCE CHIRPED
It was roughly 100 miles from Buddy Holly’s doorstep in Lubbock, Texas to the Petty recording studio in Clovis, New Mexico. I heard David Bigham tell my photographer that when the Crickets were scheduled to record at the studio, Buddy’s…
9: JFK SLEPT HERE
I had visited the hospital where Kennedy was pronounced dead and I stood on the spot where he was shot; but as my sightseeing window was closing fast on that trip, I asked Kim Johnson for one last favor: Please…
7: DALLAS ROCK CITY
For eight long months I stood silently on a living room shelf in Michigan nodding at anyone who walked by. I started to think I had become a ‘yes’ man; but the fact was: I was just happy that my…