Oregon: John F. Kennedy

DENVER--Secretary of State Bill Bradbury warned Oregon’s Democratic delegates that he would probably get emotional Thursday night when he witnessed the first African American man accept the Democratic nomination for president of the United States.

Bradbury attended Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech on the National Mall in 1963, which occurred 45 years ago to this day, and he said the possibility of seeing King’s dream come true was very powerful for him.