Drum Magazine social history photographs, Golden City Post 80

Luthuli Scare Over Helicopter – Kennedy talks to Luthuli. He told the Chief he had been a great inspiration to his late brother, President John F Kennedy. In their 70-minute interview they discussed the late President Kennedy, race problems in the United States, the future of Africans in South Africa, non-violence and the hope that people would never through despair turn away from non-violence. Senator Kennedy said he got the impression that Luthuli was unalterably opposed to communism and retained the faith that his people would never turn to communism. He found in Luthuli a lack of bitterness and a genuine affection for white people as well as his own people.