For once, Tom and Vicki didn’t set an alarm on the morning of Friday July 19, 2019. We had pushed the limits since we left Michigan, and my photographer figured we had all day to travel the 125 miles to…
Tag: John F. Kennedy
86: HELLO BATMAN; GOODBYE NORMA JEAN
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…
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…