I was born 7 Nov 1939 in Washington, DC in the old Sibley Hospital that was located downtown.  It was a Tuesday.

We lived in my Aunt Molly’s boarding house located at 1450 V Street NW.  About a dozen blocks (1.5 miles) North of the White House.  Franklin Roosevelt was President.

World War II had just started in Europe on the 1st of September when the Germans invaded Poland.  We had not entered it yet.  That would come two years later after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

John F. Kennedy lived in an apartment on 16th Street at the end of the next block from us.  It was an apartment that his father kept for whenever anyone from the family stayed in Washington.   He and my dad were friends from their prohibition days.

My dad was a car salesman for the Leary Brothers Chrysler dealership.  When Joe Kennedy was appointed the Ambassador to Great Britain, my dad sold him 3 Chrysler 300s to take to England with him.

A few blocks down 16th Street lived Kathleen Kennedy, Jack’s sister, with two other girls.  A girl named Heidecooper.  She was the sister of a friend of my dad’s, Hank Heidecooper.

And, a girl from Denmark by the name of Inga Arvad.  Inga was Jack’s girlfriend.  Unfortunately, she had also been Hitler’s girlfriend during the 1936 Olympics.  She had a picture of the two of them together that had been taken in 1936.

Hank’s sister took a copy of the photo and took it to J. Edgar Hoover.  DC was just a small town in those days and you could walk and see just about anyone.  Not like it is today.

Jack Kennedy was in the Naval Intelligence.  Hoover had his security clearance revoked and he was reassigned to PT Boats.  That wasn’t his first choice.