First Person

Judy Collins: 74, singer and songwriter, New York City

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**New York in the 1960s was exotic. Nobody had any money. Everybody was making art and making music. And making trouble.**

I got to meet John F Kennedy in 1963. He was killed that year, so this year is the 50-year anniversary for a lot of things: moving to New York, meeting him, singing for him in Washington, and then the terrible events ...