All Stories from November 18, 2013 (Change date)
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7-year-old’s birthday plans were upstagedNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - The day President Kennedy was shot was the day before my seventh birthday. I was in second grade at Green Valley School in Lombard. I don’t remember exactly when or how ...
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Weekend in Review: Storms don't stop Bears; Robber strikes againNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - Suburbs spared worst of severe weather While tornadoes touched down Sunday in portions of central Illinois killing at least five people and causing widespread damag...
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Johnson followed Kennedy admirablyNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - I was 16 years old when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. It was the first of three tragic assassinations during the ’60s; Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King...
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Gym teacher had to bear the bad newsNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - The day Kennedy was assisinated, I was a physical education teacher in Ocala, Fla. I taught in a unique school setup where we had all the seventh graders in the county. ...
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Kennedy years guided later political choicesNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - My college years were “bookended” by JFK’s presidency. I stayed up all night in my dorm’s TV room on the November evening of his election my freshman year. I listened in...
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Dawn Patrol: Severe weather hits Illinois; Search or hit-and-run driverNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - Suburbs spared worst of severe weather While tornadoes touched down in portions of central Illinois yesterday, causing widespread damage, the Chicago area seemed to...
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One goodbye to JFK isn’t enoughNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - I have been to Brookline to celebrate his birth. I have been to Dallas to feel anger at his murder. I have been to Arlington to mourn his death. And I have been to his l...
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Story of JFK told to next generationNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - On Nov. 22, 1963, I was in first grade attending Bateman Elementary School in Chicago. I had gone to the White House six months earlier on a tour with my family. As a li...
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Sadly, many focus on JFK’s character flawsNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - In the fall of 1956 I was in the Augustinian Seminary and wrote on the blackboard that JFK would be elected president in 1960, though most didn’t even know who he was. B...
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Co-workers told of news after lunch hourNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - I had returned to my office early after lunch. Most others in the department were still at lunch. I received a telephone call from a girl who was in the hospital. She wa...