Cook County Opinion
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Joy over Catholic president, then sorrowNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - I remember like it was yesterday, and I can’t believe it will be 50 years. I was 12 years old in seventh grade at St. Paul of the Cross School in Park Ridge. The teacher...
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The show went on, provided a diversionNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - I worked on John F. Kennedy’s 1960 election campaign. Newly arrived in New York City, an aspiring actress, I joined the cadre of young hopefuls passionate about the futu...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...