It was Friday at noon on October 23, 1970, when the air traffic controller at McAllen International Airport heard the radio warning. A pilot was requesting the immediate evacuation of every Methodist and Catholic church in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. At St. John the Baptist Church in San Juan, sixty priests were meeting for their weekly gathering, and the adjacent Catholic school cafeteria was resounding with the laughter of dozens of …
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