HAMILTON, Ohio — When Debby Rotundo was in grade school in the early 1960s, she remembered seeing President John F. Kennedy stepping out of an airplane at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.

It is a strong memory for the now-73-year-old Debby Harrison. Her mom wanted to see JFK’s arrival when he visited Cincinnati in October 1962, and brought along Harrison and her little brother. When the former president emerged from the plane, she recalled Kennedy’s hair “blowing in the wind like a copper penny.”

The sight was “mesmerizing,” she said.

About a year later, in November 1963, Harrison wrote a letter following Kennedy’s assassination. She wrote to Nikita Khrushchev, former premier of the Soviet Union, asking for peace, and that letter was included in the recently relea

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