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Omaha Steve

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Sat Nov 23, 2013, 11:38 AM Nov 2013

Photo: Sen. John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary


http://www.omaha.com/article/20131122/NEWS/131129462/1685#omaha-event-honors-jfk-s-legacy-as-a-worldwide-source-of-inspiration

Published Saturday, November 23, 2013 at 12:00 am / Updated at 1:30 am


THE WORLD-HERALD
Sen. John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in 1958 at the Blackstone Hotel in Omaha. The senator was in town to speak at a conference.

Omaha event honors JFK's legacy as a worldwide source of inspiration
By Steve Liewer / World-Herald staff writer

Mary Haven was quietly eating her lunch at the Veterans Hospital when the news broke that terrible day half a century ago.

The president was dead.

“It came over the radio,” recalled Haven, now 73, a retired professor and associate dean at the University of Nebraska Medical Center's School of Allied Health Professions.

“Some of us immediately knelt down and started praying.”

FULL story at link.

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Photo: Sen. John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary (Original Post) Omaha Steve Nov 2013 OP
why wasn't she watching where she was pouring that milk? FatBuddy Nov 2013 #1
Weird that she's pouring his milk for him treestar Nov 2013 #2
I swear that was the first thing I thought of when seeing this picture. Careful there Jacquie...n/t monmouth3 Nov 2013 #3
 

FatBuddy

(376 posts)
1. why wasn't she watching where she was pouring that milk?
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 11:39 AM
Nov 2013

it coulda run off on either of them.


mercy sakes!

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