Earl Wild

Earl Wild

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BOYCE LANCASTER TALKS WITH EARL WILD

“There was this horrible blizzard….” So begins Earl Wild’s tale about the night he performed at President Kennedy’s Inaugural Concert. When he finally arrived, his reward was a chance to talk to the President and his wife backstage for twenty minutes before the show. “I found Mrs. Kennedy to be most charming…”

This interview is part of Return to Camelot, a retrospective of the Kennedy years in the White House.