Reply #122: Hubert Humphrey

[koopie57]

My daddy died in 1962 and I was five years old. I remember a very tall gentleman (he was tall to me at the time, but everyone was) reach down and shake my hand and look into my eyes and say he was sorry my daddy died. There was a crowd around us (at the time it seemed huge) and I remember thinking about that man often. I asked my mom who he was and she said Hubert Humphrey. She said that he always said if it weren't for my dad he wouldn't be where he was today cuz my dad helped him get through Latin. I don't know, I was going to check out where he went to college to see if it fit, cuz my mom was never really right after my dad died, but I tend to believe it is true.

I also talked to Allen Shephard on the telephone and with Mr. Wizard's agent on the phone.