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.
Nov. 22, 1963 is often described as a moment in American history that everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing. As part of our coverage of the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, The Texas Catholic asked readers to share their thoughts and memories of that fateful day in Dallas.Year of Faith
Probably everyone who was alive Nov. 22, 1963, remembers where he or she was the day President John F. Kennedy was shot. One Youngstown diocesan priest, the late Father Robert Brengartner, was present to meet the Kennedy family when they returned from Dallas to what was then called the Bethesda Naval Hospital near Washington.
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...
Thursday, November 21, 20130390The weather is inching toward crispness, but it’s not there yet when Hugh Aynesworth steps into Dallas’ Dealey Plaza under a bland autumn sun. He is on familiar turf, this man who always will wear a triple badge of proximity as the lone reporter to witness the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, the arrest of...
