Thursday, November 21, 20130338I was standing outside the Trade Mart building where the president was to speak at a luncheon. My mother was inside, having received a ticket from then-U.S. Attorney Barefoot Sanders. One of Sanders’ daughters, Janet, and I were with my father. We had gotten out of school at Preston Hollow Elementary to see JFK. I was 9 years old.
Thursday, November 21, 20130451Before 1960 I had only vaguely heard about a Massachusetts senator named John Fitzgerald Kennedy. However his was only one name among many politicians; but then something happened. It occurred while I was on a vacation trip to Mexico with two Oklahoma priests. We had stopped on the border for the night. The Democratic Convention had...
Thursday, November 21, 20130301Mary Kathleen O’Connor Treviño joined classmates from Bishop Dunne Catholic School on Nov. 22, 1963, in traveling to downtown Dallas to watch President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade.
Thursday, November 21, 20130234Yolanda Garcia-Roncal stood near the corner of Lemmon and Oak Lawn along with classmates of Holy Trinity Catholic School to watch the motorcade pass by on the fateful day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.
Thursday, November 21, 20130481Brothers Daniel Darrouzet, Bob Darrouzet and John Darrouzet all had the chance to shake the hand of President John F. Kennedy hours before he was assassinated 50 years ago.
Thursday, November 21, 20130583On Nov. 22, 1963, Diane and David Dozier stopped at Love Field to watch Air Force One land while en route to the hospital for the birth of their son.
Thursday, November 21, 20130132Bishop Kevin J. Farrell reflects on President John F. Kennedy, the first Catholic U.S. president, and what his assassination meant to Ireland, the bishop’s homeland, and to the world.
The late Vincentian Father Oscar Huber, a native of Perryville in the St. Louis Archdiocese, was a hard-working, dedicated pastor who made many friends throughout his years of faithful ministry. The priest, who died in 1975, is still remembered for all that. And for one other thing. A Dallas pastor at the time, he administered last rites...
Thursday, November 21, 20130287Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins was a somewhat fuzzy-cheeked 20-year-old when his Baylor University law studies took him to Cambridge, England in the early 1980s. When the local lads learned Jenkins was a Dallas native, he said initial associations were predictably confined to two responses: J.R. Ewing of TV fame and “that’s where...
