Rev. John C. Baskett-Assignment

Ordained: 1945

Start	Stop	Assignment	Town/Accusations	State	Position	Notes
1946 Kansas City bishop was Edwin Vincent O'Hara	1947	Ss. Peter and Paul	Boonville	MO	2/2	Parish had a school with 134-136 students.
1947 Washington DC archbishop was Patrick Aloysius O'Boyle (1947-1973)	1950	Catholic University	Washington	D.C.
1950	1951	Ss. Peter and Paul	Boonville	MO	3/3 In residence.	Parish had a school wtih 150 students.
1951	1954	St. James'	Kansas City • A woman reported to the police in 2007 (Feb. 9, 2007 Police Report) that Baskett sexually abused her when she was 15-17 years old, beginning in 1952, while he was a priest at St. James. (Kansas City Star March 6, 2008).	MO	3/3	Parish had a school with 392-413 students.
1952	1955	Chancery Position: Censor Librorum	Kansas City	MO
1954	1955	St. Andrew's	Tipton	MO	2/2	Parish had a school with 175 students.
1955 Springfield -Cape Girardeau bishops were Charles Herman Helmsing (1956-1962), Ignatius Jerome Strecker (1962-1969), William Wakefield Baum (1970-1973), Bernard Francis Law (1973-1984).	1978	U.S. Airforce-Organized Reserve Corps			Chaplain	The Official Catholic Directories index Baskett as a priest of the Springfield-Cape Girardeau diocese beginning in 1957.
1978	1979	On duty outside the diocese	Kitty Hawk	NC		Listed in the diocesan pages of the OCDs with a Kitty Hawk NC P.O. Box. No longer appears in the OCDs after 1979. Baskett died June 23, 1995 in Las Vegas NV. (Feb. 9, 2007 Police Report)

Source: Official Catholic Directory (New York: Kenedy & Sons, 1946-1979).

Priests in a Parish: We use the following convention to show a priest's place among the clergy of a parish: 1/2 means that he is the first priest listed in the Official Catholic Directory (usually the pastor) and that there is a total of two priests at the parish. The shorthand 3/4 means that the priest is listed third on a four-priest roster. See our sample page from the Directory.

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