Rabbi Judah Fish, of Austin, Texas, speaking at memorial services for the late President Kennedy attended by President Lyndon B. Johnson, today said the nation could be thankful for the gift of Kennedy. The Rabbi told the interfaith service that “we pray that the causeless hatred which killed him will vanish from this earth.”
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