CHAPTER FIVE
THE 1960S The decade of the 1960s was giant for the Coliseum with the biggest, the best and the brightest in a number of different respects. That is no exaggeration, nor is it hyperbole. Just a month before the Presidential election in 1960, candidate John F. Kennedy tried to sway Hoosier voters his way inside the building. Among other things, he said: “How much more are emergency programs in foreign aid costing us because we did not long ago take the steps we should have taken before a crisis was reached in the Middle East, in Latin America or in Africa? And how do you measure the cost to a country whose security is in danger of being nibbled away by brush-fire wars too limited to justify the use of the massive retaliation our defense budgets have forced us to rely upon?� Kennedy lost Indiana, but won the Presidency.
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