Iona College - ICANN Yearbook (New Rochelle, NY)

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!: i From one end of the campus to the other, news of President Kennedy’s shooting was heart! in stunned disbelief. Then the shock wore off and in its place welled up feelings of grief and disgust for the act. In the crowded cafeteria the news broke in upon animated chatter and stilled all conversation. Gloom fell over the tables and the meals were left uneaten or finished in silence. On the athletic field students stopped playing football and asked each other: “Is it true?” All over campus, groups of students and teachers gathered around radios, their faces drawn and ashen. Within minutes of the word of the assassina tion, students started drifting into the chapel, first in twos and threes, and then in tens and twenties. At first they prayed for the president’s recovery. Then, when they learned he was dead, they prayed for the salvation of his soul. 8