All Stories from November 18, 2013 (Change date)
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Still too many questions to answerNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - Fifty years and there still are way too many unanswered questions. The best possible tribute to JFK would be a completely independent and honest review of what actually ...
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Kennedys’ hometown grieved deeplyNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - My husband was a gradate student in Boston in November 1963, and I was teaching kindergarten near Brookline, Mass., where the senior Kennedys had lived and where JFK was...
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Bitter words led to life of political activityNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - I was a 17-year-old student in English class at Arlington High School when the news was announced overhead that the president had been shot. Our student teacher said, “I...
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Kennedy left nation with hopeNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - In the sixth grade, our lesson was interrupted by the school secretary coming to the door with a note for our teacher. He read the note, and we could all tell that somet...
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Business training class just couldn’t go onNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - On November 22, 1963, I was 28 and employed by Aetna Casualty and Surety Co. as a classroom instructor in the company’s training division in Hartford, Conn. My memories ...
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Sadness, prayers at Catholic schoolNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - I returned to my seventh-grade classroom after lunch, unaware that life would change. Childhood innocence would be replaced by black and white images of a murdered presi...
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Jolted from a carefree teenage stateNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - Folded gum wrapper chains as long as the height of all four Beatles put together — who could build it first? That was the contest on WLS radio, and that’s what my friend...
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Two momentous events 80 days apartNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - My grade school life was intertwined with President Kennedy. I have a memory of seeing him in Elgin during his campaign trip through the Fox Valley. On Nov. 22, 1963 I w...
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Day to celebrate turned to day of mourningNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - On Nov. 22, 1963, I was a college sophomore and postulant studying to be a School Sister of Notre Dame at the motherhouse in Mequon, Wis. It was the feast day of Saint C...
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Just the start to a decade of terrorNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - I turned 6 during the ’60 campaign. I had so many questions! Why is a president not a king? Why replace a healthy and good president? Kennedy was magical with his unexpe...