DuPage County Opinion
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Will that hopeful feeling ever return?Nov 18, 2013 4:00 am - A junior at Elmhurst’s York High School in 1963, I will never forget when legendary cross country coach Joe Newton announced to our gym class that JFK had been shot. Aft...