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          Notre Dame to remember President John F. Kennedy

          
            
              
                
                Published: November 21, 2013
              

              
                Author: Dennis Brown
              

              







          

          
          
          

          
        
        
        
           President John F. Kennedy is presented the 1961 Laetare Medal in the Oval Office. Attending the presentation (L-R): unidentified man; Father Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., vice president of Notre Dame; Rep. John Brademas, Indiana; Kennedy; Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president of Notre Dame; James E. Murphy, director of public relations at Notre Dame; and an unidentified man.

On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the University of Notre Dame will ring bells and offer Mass in his memory.

The bells of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart will toll in tribute to the president at 2 p.m. EST Friday (Nov. 22), the time of his death on Nov. 22, 1963. Masses at the Basilica at 11:30 a.m. and 5:15 p.m. will be offered for justice and peace and will include an intercession for him.

Notre Dame also will recognize the anniversary before the Irish football game Saturday (Nov. 23) against Brigham Young University when the flag will be presented by G. Robert Blakey, one of the nation’s leading authorities on the tragic events 50 years ago. Blakey was the chief legal counsel and staff director for the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations and helped draft the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. A graduate of the University, Blakey was elevated to emeritus status a year ago after teaching for more than 35 years in the University’s Law School.

Kennedy received Notre Dame’s highest honor, the Laetare Medal, in a White House ceremony two years to the day before his assassination. He received an honorary degree from the University in 1950.

        

        
        
          
            
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