DuPage County Opinion
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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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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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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...