Keeping with this morning's top line, here, then-Bishop Philip Hannan's eulogy (fulltext) for the 35th President of the United States, given in Washington's St Matthew's Cathedral at the close of the Requiem Mass on 25 November 1963:
The footage is just one piece of a mega-tribute assembled by New Orleans' CBS affiliate, WWL.
One of global Catholicism's most prominent chroniclers, Rocco Palmo has held court as the "Church Whisperer" since 2004, when the pages you're reading were launched with an audience of three, grown since by nothing but word of mouth, and kept alive throughout thanks solely to reader support.
A former US correspondent for the London-based international Catholic weekly The Tablet,
Palmo's served as a church analyst for The New York Times, Associated Press, BBC, NBC, National Public Radio, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and a host of other print and broadcast outlets worldwide.
A native of Philadelphia, Rocco Palmo attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.
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