doris fleeson – Estes Kefauver for President

How Adlai Really Won

Stevenson is remembered as the man who practiced a nobler brand of politics. A forgotten incident from the 1956 campaign tells a different story.

In the summer of 1961, rumors swirled that a Supreme Court justice was going to resign, and Kefauver would be his replacement, Why didn’t it happen?

Follow me as I track down the story behind a magazine photograph. I try to figure out not only where Kefauver was… but when and why