Robert Redford, actor, age 27 on November 22, 1963.
Today, most know Redford as the founder of one of the world’s premiere film festivals, Sundance Film Festival, in suburban Salt Lake City. Here are his thoughts on that fateful day, according to the book:
I was in New York, and I had been taken to a restaurant by two guys, William Morris agents. … I was in Barefoot in the Park on Broadway, and the cabdriver was listening to the radio and he turned it up and they were saying the president had been shot. And the juxtaposition was too much, with what these guys were doing to me. I had the cabdriver pull over and let me out. I remember walking around Central Park, trying to make sense of it.
