James L. Felder has been involved in voter registration and education in South Carolina since 1967. He was one of three blacks elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1970, becoming the first to serve since Reconstruction. His first book, I Buried John F. Kennedy, reveals the role he played in the funeral of President Kennedy in 1963. He lives in Columbia, South Carolina. He has two children, Jimmy and Adrienne, and two grandsons, Lance and Sean.