I had a wonderful sister, a nun sister Robert Miriam and sometime in the early afternoon, a knock at the door came and that was rare. Back in those days you were not interrupted in class. She went to the door. I heard her gasp and she placed her hand up against her chest. She came back to the class and she said students i have terrible news. President kennedy has been shot but he is still alive. Take out your rosaries and lets pray for the president. Back in those days rosaries were standard operating equipment in the catholic classroom so we all took out our rosaries. We were saying and holding each beat for dear life in maybe 20 minutes later or so she had to go out in the hall and she came back and she was crying. We knew. It was over. Host where was the school . Guest Norfolk Virginia saint pius the x. They will kill me if i dont mention it. I remember everything about it. I remember, and everybody was crying. I went to my lockers a good friend of mine was cleaning out his locker f
Sixty years after the Kennedy assassination, two prominent Virginians shaped as small boys by the youthful president, recall how attending a JFK rally in Norfolk fed their faith in politics and public policy.