KENNEDYS ATTEND CHURCH SERVICES IN MIDDLEBURG
Middleburg, Virginia (JFK+50) On the last Sunday of President John F. Kennedy's life, November 10, 1963, his family attended services at St. Stephen the Martyr Church here in Middleburg, Virginia*.
Thurston Clarke writes...
"The family...heard Father Albert Pereira** preach...about Christian death and the high cost of elaborate funerals."
The First Family, the President, First Lady and Caroline and John Junior, were spending the weekend at their country home "Wexford" in Atoka, Virginia.
JFK+50 NOTE
After mass, JFK was presented a Catholic missal that would end up on Air Force One and was used for the swearing-in of LBJ in Dallas, Texas two weeks later.
The LBJ Library, located at The University of Texas (Austin), has the missal on display in their 'Permanent Exhibitions.'
*Middleburg is located half-way between Alexandria & Winchester, Virginia. It was established in 1787 & is known as "the nation's horse and hunt capital." The town is 42.6 miles east of Washington, D.C.
**Rev. Albert Francis Pereira (1915-2004) was born on Maderia Island (Africa) & studied theology in Belgium & Rome. WFP was ordained in 1940.
SOURCES
"JFK's Final Days: November 10, 1963," Presidential History Geeks, November 10, 2013, www.potus-geeks.livejournal.com/
"JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President," by Thurston Clarke, The Penguin Press, New York, 2013.
"Rev. Albert Francis Pereira," Daily Press, www.legacy.com/
