people think of hesson, over my cold dead hands but there's a lot more to his story. he actively campaign ford adlai stevenson in 1952 when he was running against eisenhower, so, that is part of heston's individual thought, where even though eisenhower was a war hero and celebrated, he believed that stephenson was more on the same level as roosevelt. that stephenson was the real roosevelt liberal and eisenhower might have been touch to militaristic for heston. in 1956 he supported adlai stephenson, again a losing proposition, between 1956 and 1960, charlton heston became a major hollywood star. in fact, the biggest star of the '50s in hollywood. he supported john kennedy over stephenson, and in the primary -- in the democratic convention. he supported jfk. jfk, of course, won the nomination, and he went out and actively campaigned for kennedy. he was -- there was no ambivalence in heston about who he supported, who we wanted in office. in 1964, something changed. and he felt -- first of all, everybody who supported jfk was in shellshock after the assassination, and jo