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Broncos for Barack
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Dan Carino
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Aug 23, 2008
Broncos for Barack
When Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination, he'll do it in front of 76,000 at Invesco Field, home of the Denver Broncos. KPCC's Kitty Felde turns back the clock nearly a half-century when another young, dynamic Democratic candidate addressed a football-stadium crowd...at the L.A. Coliseum.
L.A. Memorial Coliseum on November 23, 1963. Note the flag at half-staff (arrow). Three years before, U.S. Presidential nominee John F. Kennedy told 50,000 people in the Coliseum of the "new frontier."
L.A. Memorial Coliseum on November 23, 1963. Note the flag at half-staff (arrow). Three years before, U.S. Presidential nominee John F. Kennedy told 50,000 people in the Coliseum of the "new frontier."
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Tom Courtney/L.A. Public Library/Herald-Examiner collection
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When Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination, he'll do it in front of 76,000 at Invesco Field, home of the Denver Broncos. KPCC's Kitty Felde turns back the clock nearly a half-century when another young, dynamic Democratic candidate addressed a football-stadium crowd...at the L.A. Coliseum.

When Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination, he'll do it in front of 76,000 at Invesco Field, home of the Denver Broncos. KPCC's Kitty Felde turns back the clock nearly a half-century when another young, dynamic Democratic candidate addressed a football-stadium crowd...at the L.A. Coliseum.