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

[Omaha Steve]

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.