The following year, as a 22-year-old senior at the University of Southern California, she ran for a seat on the Los Angeles City Council. “I called everyone I could, and those buses started rolling in,” Ms. Wyman recalled. A poster-size picture of Kennedy talking to Ms. Wyman while he was president graces the staircase wall in her house. Ms. Wyman does not regret missing the 1968 convention in Chicago, where thousands of Vietnam War protesters battled police officers in the streets. After leaving the City Council, Ms. Wyman took jobs in the entertainment industry and supported the arts and humanitarian causes in Los Angeles.

Source: New York Times August 19, 2020 22:00 UTC