1The Cuban missile crisis was two months away, Dallas was more than a year away — and the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which would lead to a massive escalation of American troops in a far-off Southeast Asian country most people had never heard of, was two years in the future.
It was 47 years ago that Robert F. Kennedy, the president’s brother and U.S. attorney general, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas spent four days horse-camping with their wives and families at Elkhorn, along the Elwha River, in Olympic National Park.
Ethel Kennedy fell off a slippery log into a creek
She came out soaked but smiling.
And the park superintendent was thrown from a horse and broke his collar bone.
But otherwise they had a splendid time, as attested by these black and white photos taken by Olympic National Park rangers.
