Opinion Stories from November 18, 2013 (Change date)
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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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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...
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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...