All Stories from November 18, 2013 (Change date)
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It’s been downhill ever since for our nationNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - I was in a small downstate high school science class when we got the word that the president had been shot. All classes were canceled, and everyone listened for further ...
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Innocence, hope missing after assassinationNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - When JFK died, it is said, so did our innocence. I think that’s true. I was a sophomore at St. Edward Central Catholic High School in Elgin when President John F. Kenned...
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Teacher felt need to remain calm for studentsNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - Many years ago while I was teaching in a junior high school, an announcement came over the loudspeaker that President Kennedy had been assassinated. My students were dev...
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A cold day brought stark realitiesNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - I was 18, and working my first full-time job after graduating from Palatine High School. I was in the art department of General Telephone Co. in Des Plaines. When I came...
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Kennedy was a symbol for young AmericansNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - On Nov. 22, 1963, ironically, I was teaching American history at St. Mark’s School in Chicago, and it was playing out before us. The other male teacher (at the time, nun...
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The first group with no memory of itNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - I was first-semester freshman in college in the fall of 1977. I was in an American history class covering 1877-present. Our professor was lecturing about the day of JFK’...
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Death was beginning of end of innocenceNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - Honestly? JFK didn’t mean much to me when he was alive. He was rich, Catholic and his wife wore great clothes. That’s about all I knew. As a sophomore in high school, I ...
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A dark time in our nation’s historyNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - To put it succinctly, “It was the best of times it was the worst of times.” I was born and raised in Washington, D.C., and was a senior in high school at the time. The C...
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All of Berlin was crying, not just AmericansNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - I was an Army brat. Dad was on Special Forces, and we moved to Berlin just months after the wall went up. On June 26, 1963, President Kennedy came to the city of Berlin,...
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Military officers solemn on plane rideNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - Nov. 22 began as my last day of work at a North Side Chicago business. And it was to celebrate both my mother’s and sister’s birthdays. I had not worked long at this bus...