There are moments in our lives that we don’t forget. Each generation has them, it’s one’s convergence of history and personal experience that creates a touchstone.

Dan Jones, a long-time anchor and reporter in Milwaukee, has put together a program that highlights the time candidate and President John F. Kennedy had in Wisconsin. The special "Wisconsin Remembers John F. Kennedy," will air on Milwaukee Public Television at 6:30 p.m. on Monday.

The touchstone that the generation shares is what the young president meant to them, where they were when they heard of his assassination, and the perspective of what JFK meant to their lives on a personal and professional level.

Jones went through hours of historic film and he shares the views of JFK campaigning on the streets Downtown, meeting with people at the airport and speaking at the Milwaukee Arena.

"It is certainly one of the finest projects I have ever been involved with," said Jones, who serves as host and executive producer on the local program. "I’m very proud of it."

Jones interviewed former Wisconsin Gov. Patrick J. Lucey, who ran the Kennedy campaign in Wisconsin while he was then the head of the state Democratic Party. Lucey, now 95 years old, shares the story of when Kennedy attributes his work with the campaign as being the reason he became president. Kennedy needed Wisconsin to beat Minnesota’s Hubert Humphrey in the party primary, and Kennedy said that if Lucey wasn’t there with his early endorsement, Humphrey would have taken the Dairyland.

Milwaukee civil rights leader Vel Phillips and Wisconsin Gov. Martin J. Schreiber are also interviewed, and share their relationship and connection with JFK.

Jones does a wonderful job of presenting the events of what took place and offering a time to reflect on how those times affected the members of our community. In my opinion, this is the type of program that needs to be recorded and watched more than once. At first I took in the history, but I needed to re-watch it again for the context of where the video came from. Seeing the sign for the Milwaukee Spa over JFK’s shoulder, or hearing him speak of Mukwonago during a speech at the arena, brought this home.

Jones tapped the archive of film from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, and uses clips from the WTMJ-Wisconsin Historical Society Archives at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Golda Meir Library.

"Wisconsin Remembers John F. Kennedy" will air just before the PBS national network coverage on Monday night.

Jones is probably best remembered for his time as a reporter and anchor at WITI-TV Ch. 6 in the 1980s and 1990s. Since 1995, the Milwaukee native has served as a producer and executive producer for a number of programs at Milwaukee Public Television. His documentaries on Milwaukee’s Lisbon Avenue neighborhood, Brady Street and the city’s Historic Third Ward are a part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago.

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