Sadie neent alates pte ning tb -. DEATH PLACED AT APPROXIMATELY 2 P-M EST. (SUB KENNEDY) , (DALLAS ) --- PRESIDENT KENNEDY IS DEAD..eASSASSINATED IN A BURST OF GUNFIRE IN DOWNTOWN DALLAS, . TEXAS GOVERNOR JOHN CONNALLY, RIDING IN THE FAMOUS BUBBLE TOP PRESIDENTIAL LIMOUSINE,---THE TOP DOWN---ALSO WAS SHOT AND SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. | THE 46-YEAR-OLD PRESIDENT WAS SHOT THROUGH THE THROAT AND HEAD eeePOSSIBLY BY THE SAME BULLET. THE ATTENDING SURGEON...DR. MALCOLM PERRY...SAID "THERE WAS AN ENTRANCE WOUND BELOW HIS ADAM'S APPLE. THERE WAS ANOTHER WOUND IN THE BACK OF HIS HEAD. CONNALLY WAS HIT IN THE HEAD AND WRIST. , AS THE CAR, CARRYING THE KENNEDYS AND THE CONNALLYS NEARED A TRIPLE UNDERPASS, THREE BURSTS OF GUNFIRE WERE HEARD. | MRS. KENNEDY CRADLED HER HUSBAN’S HEAD IN HER LAP. THE FIRST LADY APPARENTLY WAS NOT HIT. THE PRESIDENT*S BLOOD-SPATTERED CAR CUT OUT OF THE MOTORCADE. IT RACED BEHIND SCREAMING MOTORCYCLE POLICE SIRENS TO PARKLAND HOSPITAL. | TWO LITTERS WERE BROUGHT OUT. ONE FOR THE PRESIDENT...ONE FOR THE "GOVERNOR. MR. KENNEDY WAS CONSCIOUS AS HE WAS. CARRIED INTO THE HOSPITAL. ~~ FATHER HUBER FROM HOLY TRINITY ROMAN. CATHOLIC CHURCH WAS CALLED. | HE ADMINISTERED THE LAST RIGHTS OF THE CHURCH. ae) Oty MR. KENNEDY, LIVED. 30 MINUTES AFTER HE WAS. CUT DOWN. ..THE -TIMNE.OF. 5 CHE WAS THE FOURTH U-S PRESIDENT TO BE ASSASSINATED IN OFFICE. (MORE SUB KENNEDY) aoe PRESIDENT AND MRS. KENNEDY, WERE NEARING THE END OF A TWO-DAY, TOUR OF TEXAS. THEY AND THEIR PARTY LANDED AT SAN ANTONIO YESTERDAY. .WENT TO HOUSTON...THEN FLEW TO FORT WORTH LAST NIGHT. THEY FLEW TO DALLAS THIS MORNING AND WERE ENROUTE TO A PRESIDENTIAL “SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT WHEN THE ASSASSIN'S BULLET STRUCK. THEY WERE TO HAVE FLOWN TO AUSTIN, THE STATE.CAPITAL, FOR A DINNER TONIGHT AT THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION. VICE PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON---A TEXAN---WAS IN THE, SAME MOTORCADE BUT SOME DISTANCE BACK FROM THE PRESIDENT. HE WAS NOT HARMED. JOHNSON WAS IN THE NOSPITAL WHEN MR. KENNEDY DIED. .BUT, SHORTLY AFTER THE DEATH, HE WAS WHISKED FROM THE HOSPITAL UNDER HEAVY GUARD. HE WAS SWORN IN AS THE NATION'S 36TH PRESIDENT IN THE AIRLINER THAT MAD FLOWN PRESIDENT KENNEDY TO DALLAS THIS MORNING. | IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARD, HE FLEW BACK TO THE CAPITOL. . IDENTITY OF THE ASSASSIN WAS NOT IMMEDIATELY-KNOWN, SHERIFF'S OFFICERS TOOK A YOUNG MAN INTO CUSTODY NEAR THE SCENE AND QUESTIONED HIM BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. A DALLAS TELEVISION NEWSMAN SAID HE SAW A RIFLE BEING WITHDRAWN FROM A WINDOW ON THE FIFTH OR SIXTH FLOOR OF AN OFFICE BUILDING. A RIFLE WAS FOUND IN A STAIRCASE ON THE FIFTH FLOOR OF THE BUILDING. SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES IDENTIFIED THE WEAPON AS A SEVEN-POINT-65 MAUSER... A GERMAN-MADE ARMY RIFLE WITH A TELESCOPIC SIGHT. IT HAD ONE SHELL ‘IN THE CHAMBER. THREE SPENT SHELLS WERE FOUND NEARBY. A DALLAS POLICEMAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED CHASING THE SUSPECT. HE AND ANOTHER OFFICER HAD RUN INTO A MOVIE THEATER ON A TIP “THE ASSASSIN MIGHT BE INSIDE. THE OTHER OFFICER RUSHED THE MAN AND ARRESTED HIMe | | : A DALLAS POLICE CAPTAIN SAID THE MAN HAD VVISITED RUSSIA AND WAS MARRIED TO A RUSSIAN...BUT THIS WAS NOT CONFIRMED. -0- (MORE SUB KENNEDY) , CHARLES BREWM, A 38-YEAR-OLD DALLAS MAN, WAS STANDING IN THE CROWD. AT CURBSIDE ABOUT 15 FEET AWAY WHEN THE PRESIDENT'S CAR APPROACHED. HE GAVE HIS VERSION---"R. KENNEDY, "WAS WWAVING AND THE FIRST SHOT HIT HIM AND THAT AWFUL LOOK CROSSED HIS FACE." fe THE RESIDENT'S BODY WAS CARRIED FROM THE HOSPITAL IN A BRONZE — CASKET, ACCOMPANIED BY MRS, KENNEDY, IT WAS PLACED IN A WHITE HEARSE "AND THE DRAPES WERE PULLED. . | oe WHITE HOUSE SECRETARY MALCOM KILDUFF SAID THE BODY WILL BE FLOWN To WASHINGTON THIS AFTERNOON | | - AS MANY AS 50 UNIFORMED POLICEMEN SURROUNDED THE HOSPITAL AREA | WHEN THE BODY WAS: REHOVED. "A TREWENDOUS TRAFFIC JAN DEVELOPED , “AROUND THE HOSPITAL. | WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS STOOD SORROUFULLY, LOOKING STUNNED, IN CORRIDORS AND IN A WAITING ROOM. FOR ALMOST AN HOUR, RUMORS FLEW AROUND THE HOSPITAL WHETHER THE PRESIDENT WAS ALIVE. , AT 1:55 PeM EST, A PRIEST SAID HE WAS STILL LIVING THEN CAME THE+OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT THAT JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, “THE 35TH. PRESIDENT OF. THE. UNITED STATES WAS DEAD. - - 4 BLOOD WAS WIPED FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL LIMOUSINE AS IT WAS PARKED OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL'S EMERGENCY ENTRANCE, A YELLOW ROSE BOUQUET, PRESENTED TO MRS. KENNEDY AT THE AIRPORT LAY. ON THE FLOOR IN THE BACK OF THE CAR. (MORE) , G330PCST 11/22 UPR127 BUREAUS : 7 THERE WILL BE NO SPLIT. UPI/CHICAGO | G330PCST 11/22 UPR128 ane “CORRECTION: THE NEW YORK CITY TELEPHONE NUMBER FOR: AUDIO SPOT SALES IS AREA | 212, TN 773990. -UPI/AUDIO C331PCST 11/22 “UPR129 | (SUB ALL MARKETS) (WALL STREET )=--WORD THAT PRESIDENT KENNEDY HAD BEEN FATALLY SHOT: In DALLAS, TEXAS, THIS AFTERNOON SHUT DOWN THE NEW YORK. STOCK EXCHANGE. AND ALL OTHER MAJOR STOCK AND COMMODITY EXCHANGES THROUGHOUT THE NATION. one | | THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSED ABRUPTLY AT 2:07 P-M, (EST) ‘BUT IT WAS 2256 P-M (EST) BEFORE THE TICKERS CLEANED UP THE HEAVY. SALES. ' | | | THE- FINAL WORD ON THE TICKER WAS "CLOSE...NO CLOSING QUOTATIONS." AT THE BELL, A-T AND T WAS DOWN SEVEN POINTS AT 130; CHRYSLER Down 2 1/S AT 78 3/43 DU PONT DOWN 5 1/4 AT 220; FORD DOWN 2 1/2 AT 4Be OTHER STOCKS WHICH TOOK A DROP ON THE NEWS OF MR. KE ENNEDY'S DEATH INCLUDED GENERAL ELECTRIC, DOWN 2 3/4 AT. 75 3/83 REPUBLIC STEEL DOUN 11/4 AT 38 1/4; U-S STEEL DOWN 4 3/8 AT 45 1/43 TEXACO DOUN 17/g AT 63, AND STANDARD OIL OF NEW JERSEY DOWN 1 1/2 AT 67 3/8. A SAMPLING OF STOCKS TRADED TODAY ON THE NEW YORK STOCK | EXCHANGE INCLUDES---AMERICAN TELEPHONE DOWN 7 AT 1303 ATCHISON ~ UNCHANGED AT 273 SOUTHERN PACIFIC DOWN 3/4 AT 333 BETHLEHEM STEEL DOWN 1/4 AT 29 1/23 REPUBLIC STEEL DOWN 1 1/4.AT 38 1/43 U-S. STEEL DOWN 4 3/8 AT. 45 1/4; DURYSLER DOWN 2 1/g AT 78 3/43 FORD DOWN 2.1/2 AT 483 GENERAL MOTORS DOWN 2 1/4 AT 74 3/4 DU PONT DOWN. 5 1/4 AT 2203 GENERAL ELECTRIC DOWN | } 23/4 AT 75 3/83 STANDARD OIL OF NEW JERSEY DOWN 1 1/2 AT 67 3/85 TEXACO DOWN 1 7/8 AT 634. | ae ON THE AMERICAN- EXCHANGE, STOCKS FELL OF) SSRPLY bEICLE “TEI CLOSING ON WORD OF THE SHOOTING OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY TODAY. THE CLOSING DOW JONES AVERAGES SHOW 30 INDUSTRIALS AT 711.49. DOWN 21, 165 20 RAILROADS, AT 166.41 DOWN 3.283 15 UTILITIES AT 134.97 DOWN 1.95, AND 65 STOCKS AT 252.06 DOWN 6.15. THE CLOSING RANGE OF STANDARD AND POOR'S. INDEXES SHOW , 425 INDUSTRIALS AT. 73.30 DOWN 2. 233 25 RAILROADS. AT 37.39 DOUN-0. 2875, a etn tld ah 5 a trem Sa CRONE TSINNPIe bene amancenmnaien Niele tionary, Napoca Sone ah bie 5 50 UTILITIES AT. 63. 51 DOWN 1. O89 4 AND 200 STOCKS AT: 69. 61. DOWN 2.01. ON THE AMERICAN EXCHANGE, STOCK SALES TOTALED 1,740,090 SHARES AND BOND SALES AMOUNTED TO 250,000 DOLLARS. STOCK SALES ON TYE NEV. YORK EXCHANGE TODAY TOTALED 6,630,900 | SHARES, UP 900,000 S'ARES FROM YESTERDAY, BOND SALES TOTALED 8 260,000 DOLLARS, - OF THE 1,312 ISSUES WHICH CHANGED HANDS TODAY, THERE WERE 121 ADVANCES, 993 DECLINES, 198 REMAINED THE SAME REACHED NEW 1963 HIGHS, AND 129 NIT NEW LOWS. “THE 10 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS ON THE NEW YORK EXCHANGE TODAY: STOCKS SALES CLOSE NET CHANGE CHRYSLER 230,900 76 pou 4 7/2 ERRY RAND... 193,200 15 1/2 DOWN 11/2 M TENNONTTMNZAMVHV AUN THE 10 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS. ON THE NEW YORK EXCHANGE TODAY: STOCKS SALES CLOSE NET CHANGE CHRYSLER | 230,900 76 DOWN 4 7/5 SPERRY RAND «193, 200 15 1/2 DOWN 1 1/2 AM TEL & TEL 139,200 130 DOWN 7 FORD / 126,500. 48 DOWN 2 1/2. RCA 120,600 85 . DOUN 5 1/2 CONTROL DATA 103,209 99 1/2 UP 7/2 AM PHOTO 85,400 «11-778 ~—SODOWN 1-778 Ad MOTORS 78,900 16 — DOWN 3 1/2 U-S STEEL 76,000 45 1/4 DOWN 4-3/8 CENERAL MOTORS == —- 70,400 74 3/4 DOWN 2 1/4 G&EK343P11/22CST | UPR130 TO ALL TV NEWS EDITORS: | , , UPI NEVSFILM HAS TWO COMPLETE DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTIONS ON PRESIDENT JOHN Fe KENNEDY. oe : ONE, THE JOHN F. KENNEDY STORY. . «COVERS FROM INFANCY TO THE PRES IDENCY. THE OTHER. ..THE JFK FIRST YEARs « «COVERS HIS FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE, "BOTH OF THESE ARE BEING OFFERED ON A PER STATION BASIS. ONLY TO ANY AND ALL STATIONS. | FOR IMMEDIATE REPEAT IMMEDIATE DELIVERY CALL YOUR LOCAL UPI REPRESENTATIVE OR CALL UPI NEWSFILM NEW YORK...sMURRAY HILL 2-0400 EXTENSIONS 4B1~2- 3-4 5-6-7~ 8-94 UPIN © EK345P11/22C8T UPR131 | [MORE FIFTH ROUNDUP XXX CAR. (SUB JOHNSON) | LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON IS THE’ 36TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED es STATES « | , HE-TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE AT- 31 39 (EST) THIS AFTERNOON ABOARD THE. SAME:AIRLINER THAT MR. KENNEDY HAD FLOWN TO DALLAS IN THIS — IORNING, | | | | : = THEN HE FLEW BACK TO THE “CAPITALS THE LATE PRESIDENT'S BODY Is ON THE PLANE cae’ “HE HAD GONE TO THE HOSPITAL IMMEDIATELY AFTER MR. KENNEDY” “AND GOVERNOR CONNALLY WERE SHOT. | AFTER THE PRESIDENT'S DEATH, JOHNS ON ‘WAS HURRIED OUT OF THE BUILDING UNDER HEAVY GUARD AND TAKEN TO DALLAS* LOVE FIELD. . . THE P PLANE WAS PARKED IN THE SAME PLACE IT HAD LANDED THIS MORNING e | “WITH THE 55-YEAR-OLD , JOHNSON WHEN HE TOOK THE OATH WERE HIS WIFE AND: MRS. JACQUELINE KENNEDY---THE LATE. PRES IDENT'S WIDOW. oon : -0- MORE EK348P11/22CST | UPR132 BULLETIN (DALLAS)=--POLICE TODAY SEIZED LEE H. OSWALD, DENTIFIED AS CHAIRMAN OF A "FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE," ( AS THE PRIME SUSPECT IN THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY. EK348P11/22CST | UPR133 «MORE SUSPECT BULLETIN XXX PRESIDENT KENNEDY. POLICE SAID OSWALD, 24-YEARS-OLD WAS ACCUSED IN THE SLAYING OF A DALLAS “POLICEMAN SHORTLY AFTER THE SHOOTING OF THE PRESIDENT, POLICE CAPTAIN PAT GANNAWAY SAID THE SUSPECT WAS AN EMPLOYE IN THE BUILDING WHERE A RIFLE WAS FOUND. | GANNAWAY SAID THE SUSPECT HAD VISITED RUSSIA AND WAS MARRIED TO A RUSSIAN. THIS WAS NOT IMMEDIATELY CONFIRMED. } EK350P11/22CST UPR134 , "MORE FIFTH ROUNDUP (HORE SUB JOHNSON) XX X WIDOW. aa fd PRESIDENT JOHNSON IS THE EIGHTH MAN TO SUCCEED TO THE OFFICE ON THE DEATH OF A PRESIDENT. «THE FOURTH TO BE THRUST INTO THE POST BY AN ASSASSINATION, HE WAS SERVING IN THE SENATE OF THE os STATES AS SENIOR “SENATOR FROM TEXAS AND SENATE. MAJORITY LEADER WHEN THE THEN SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY CHOSE HIM AS HIS RUNNING MATE IN THE 1960. ELECTION, | , | MR. JOHYSON WAS CREDITED: WITH CARRYING SOME OF THE SOUTHERN saute ‘STATES FOR-THE TICKET IN THE PAPER-THIN DEMOCRATIC VICTORY THAT YEAR. sient HE-HAS.-SUORN—IN-AS-VICE-PRESIDENT ~ON- JANUARY. JoTH;-1s61- cas eee RE | TWO YEARS, TEN MONTHS AND TWO. DAYS ‘LATER, LYNDON JOHNSON IS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. : - -O- > (CHILDREN) | | CAROLINE. KENNEDY---WHO OBSERVES. HER SIXTH BIRTHDAY. NEXT “WEDNESDAY---AND HER BROTHER JOUN, JUNIOR, WERE IN THE WHITE HOUSE WHEN THEIR FATHER WAS KILLED IN DALLAS. ena JOHN JUNIOR OBSERVES HIS THIRD BIRTHDAY MONDAY. HE WAS "BORN SHORTLY AFTER THE PRESIDENT WAS ELECTED. | IT IS BELIEVED MRS, KENNEDY WILL BE THE ONE TO TELL THE CHILDREN THEIR FATHER IS DEAD. _ EARLIER THIS YEAR..THE KENNEDY'S INFANT SON DIED TWO DAYS AFTER HE HAD BEEN BORN. -- (REACTION) A STUNNED WORLD HELD HOPEFULLY...PRAYERFULLY...TO A THIN THREAD OF LIFE TODAY FOR 30 LONG MINUTES. THE AGONIZING HALF-HOUR BEGAN AT 1230 P-M (EST) WHEN AN . ASSASSIN'S BULLET CUT DOWN PRESIDENT JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY IN A PARADE WITNESSED BY 250-THOUSAND PERSONS IN DOWNTOWN DALLAS. _ IY ENDED AT APPROXIMATELY 2 P-M WHEN THE 46-YEAR-OLD, 35TH PRESIDENT DIED IN AN EMERGENCY OPERATING ROOM OF AHOSPITAL. THE PRESIDENT’S ELDERLY MOTHER AND FATHER WERE IN THE SECLUSION GQ THE FAMILY HOME ON CAPE COD WHEN THEY RECEIVED THE NEWS FROM A WORKMAN WHO HEARD IT ON THE RADIO. | A SOURCE CLOSE TO THE FAMILY SAID THEY WERE IN CONTACT WITH THE °- DALLAS HOSPITAL AND WERE ADVISED OF THEIR SON*S ASSASSINATION. THE ELDERLY JOSEPH KENNEDY,.A FORMER AMBASSADOR TO GREAT BRITAIN WAS NAPPING. HE WAS AWAKENED ‘AND GIVEN THE NEWS. ENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY, THE PRESIDENT'S YOUNGEST BROTHER, WAS PRESIDING OVER THE SENATE CHAMBER WHEN HE HEARD THE NEWS--- WHISPERED TO HIM BY A SENATE AIDE AS HE SAT IN THE VICE | PRESIDENT 'S CHAIR. HE AND HIS SISTER---EUNICE SHRIVER---FLEW IMMEDIATELY TO HYANNIS PORT TO BE WITH THEIR PARENTS. A JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAID ATTORNEY’ CENERAL ROBERT KENNEDY HAD GONE.TO HIS HOME IN SUBURBAN NCLEAN, VIRGINIA, FOR LUNCH WHEN THE NEWS CAME. THERE HAS BEEN NO WORD OF HIS IMMEDIATE PLANS. THE PRESIDENT'S YOUNGER SISTER,-ROSE, LEARNED OF THE ASSASSINATION WHILE WATCHING A TELEVISION BROADCAST FROM DALLAS AS SHE SAT IN ST. COLLETA'S SCHOOL AT JEFFERSON, WISCONSIN. PRINCESS LEE RADZIWILL---MRS. KENNEDY'S SISTER---ANNOUNCED FROM HER HOME IN LONDON SHE WILL FLY TO. THE UNITED STATES EARLY — - TOMORROW. 3 “AT VATICAN CITY, POPE PAUL RECEIVED THE NEWS WITH’ "PROFUND “GRIEF." A VATICAN SPOKESMAN SAID THE PONTIFF WENT TO HIS PRIVATE QIAPEL TO PRAY. | IN BOSTON, RICHARD CARDINAL CUSHING, A LIFE-LONG FRIEND OF THE FAMILY PLANNED TO LEAVE IMMEDIATELY FOR HYANNIS PORT TO CONSOLE THE PARENTS. THE CARDINAL, WHO MARRIED. JOHN AND- JACQUELINE. KENNEDY IN, 1953, WAS CHOKED WITH GRIEF AS HE EULOGIZED THE PRESIDENT. HE SAID "MY HEART I§ BROKEN WITH GRIEF OVER HIS MARTYRDOM FOR THE CATIOT Av TUT, TDEL. WADI N. #-- (MORE REACTION) NEWS OF THE PRESIDENT'S DEATH HIS CONGRESS LIKE A THUNDERBOLT. THE LEADERSHIP REACTED WITH COMMENTS OF "Oi, MY GOD," AND "THIS IS TERRIBLE." , | , SPEAKER JOHN MCCORMACK, NOW SECOND IN LINE FOR THE PRESIDENCY, MOURNED THE DEATH AS A "STAGCERING Loss." A SHORT IME LATER , SEVERAL SECRET, SERVICE AGENTS ARRIVED AT IIIs OFFICE, PRESUMABLY | AS A SECURITY MEASURE. | eas : | THE MILITARY TRANSPORT LANE BEARING SECRETARY OF STATE DEAN ~ RUS K AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CABINET TO A MEETING-IN JAPAN TURNED BACK BETWEEN HONOLULU AND TOKYO. WITH RUSK WERE TREASURY SECRETARY DOUGLAS DILLON, COMMERCE SECRETARY LUTHER HODGES “AND SEVEERAL OTHER HIGH OFFICIALS. THE PLANE RETURNED TO HONOLULU. TO REFUEL FOR THE FLIGHT BACK TO WASHINGTON. ‘20s (MORE REACTION) DOWNTOWN WASHINGTON WAS VISIBLY STUNNED. JHITE. HOUSE GUARDS “OUTSIDE THE EXECUTIVE MANSION DID NOT KNOW OF THE DEATH UNTIL A YOUNG. WOMAN, TEARS STREAMING DOWN HER FACE, WALKED PAST SAYING MIE'S DEADeseHE'S DEAD." ONE GUARD STUMBLED A FEW STEPS OUT FA FORMAL PARADE REST. , , FLAGS FLYING OVER THE CAPITIL BUILDING WERE LOWERED INMEDIATELY TO HALF STAFF. DRIVERS IGNOREED GREEN LIGHTS AT INTERSECTIONS...TUNING THEIR RADIOS...AND NO ONE HONKED AT THEM. A NEGRO CAB DRIVER SLUMPED OVER THE WHEEL OF HIS CAR, SHAKING WITH SOBS. FORMER PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN---AT HOME IN INDEPENDENCE, - " MISSOURI---WAS TOO STRICKEN TO COMMENT. | FORMER PRESIDENT EISENHOWER CALLED THE ASSASSINATION A "DESPICABLE ACT." SEES | U-N AMBASSADOR ADLAI STEVENSON---HIMSELF THE TARGET OF SIN SWINGING PICKET IN DALLAS LAST MONTH---WAS ASHEN-FACED WHEN GIVEN. THE NEWS. ae NEW YORK GOVERNOR ROCKEFELLER SAID THE DEATH IS A "TERRIBLE. TRAGEDY FOR THE NATION. AND THE WORLD." (DALLAS) --=TEXAS GOVERNOR JOHN CONNALLY HAS BEEN PRONOUNCED IN "SATISFACTORY CONDITION” T PARKLAND HOSPITAL IN DALLAS.. THE GOVERNOR WAS WOUNDED BY THE ASSASSIN OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY - AS BULLETS RIPPED INTO THEIR OPEN CAR IN DOWNTOWN DALLAS. BOSTON---KENNEDY" S CITY<~ WAS CLOAKED IN SILENCE THIS AFTERNOON, “ “WEEPING SHOPPERS HUDLED TOGETHER ALONG WASHINGTON... STREET... THE NARROW STREET ALONG WHICH THE PRESIDENT'S MOTORCADE ay TRAVELED ON THE EVE OF THE 1960: ELECTION, SHOCKED AND ST NNED« « «PEOPLE GATHERED AROUND. PORTABLE RADIOS » A LETTERED SIGN ‘IN A: WINDOW SAID@--" THE | PRESIDENT IS DEAD." IN NEW YORK CITY. o's PEOPLE BURST INTO TEARS. ON SECOND AVENUE A WOMAN CRIED AND SAID "WE JUST WAVED TO HIM THE OTHER DAY WHEN HE PASSED, HE WAS SMILING AT US AND HAPPY." ' FLAGS CAME TO HALF STAFF IN THE CITY. IT WAS WITH STUNNED SILENCE...TEARSs.sAND SUDDEN OUTBURSTS © THAT THE NATION'S LARGEST CITY GREETED THE NEWS OF THE RESIDENT'S DEATH. THE BELLS OF ST, PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL BEGAN TOLLING AT 2:49 PoN. AS OFFICE BUILDINGS EMPTIED, THE CHURCH FILLED WITH MOURNERS. MANY LIT CANDLES,- — THE BELLS OF HISTORIC TRINITY CHURCH ALSO BEGAN TOLLING A REQUIEM. WEEPING BRITISH PRIME MINISTER DOUGLAS-HOME (HEWM)---ON ‘LEARNING ¢ j r OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY*S ASSASSINATION--~ARRAL GED TO ADDRESS THE, BRITISH NATION TONIGHT. N PARIS, PRESIDENT DE GAULLE SAID "PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED AS A SOLDIER, UNDER FIRE FOR HIS DUTY AND IN THE SERVICE OF ‘HIS COUNTRY. * | . | IRELAND HAS BEEN NUMBED, BY THE NEWS THAT HER FAVORITE SON IS DEAD. | | MEN AND WOMEN DROPPED TO THEIR KNEES IN THE CROWDED STREETS OF UBLIN TO BEGIN RECITING THE ROSARY. | DISBELIEF s.sHOT ANGERs«sAND FINALLY, GRAY-FACED. SORROW SPREAD THRU “THROUGH THE CROWD. _SOBBED ONE WOMAN---"OH MY GOD, NOT JACK KENNEDY." ONE OF THE-WORLD'S MORE LOQUENT TRIBUTES TO THE LATE PRESIDENT KENNEDY HAS COME FROM THE MAYOR OF EUROPE'S AGUERED CITY---WEST BERLIN«. SAID WILLY BRANDT---"I FEEL AS IFA LIGHT HAS GONE’ OUT, GONE out FOR ALL MEN WHO MOPED FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM AND A BETTER LIFEss.I MYSELF HAVE LOST A FRIEND TO WHOM I WAS BOUND BY. TIES OF CONFIDENCE AND FRIENDSHIP.» «HE WAS THE BEST FRIEND WE HAD." MICHIGAN, GOVERNOR GEORGE ROMNEY HAS ASKED THAT TOMORROW'S MICHIGAN STATE-ILLINOIS FOOTBALL GAME BE CALLED OFF. BECAUSE» , Q THE DEATH OF- PRESIDENT KENNEDY. THE GAME IS FOR THE BIB TEN TITLE AND A ROSE BOUL INVITATION. ON WALL STREET---THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE TOOK SWIFT ACTION TO CLOSE DOWN FOR THE WEEKEND ON WORD THAT PRESIDENT KENNEDY HAD BEEN SHOT..eAND ALL OTHER MARKETS SWIFTLY FOLLOWED SUIT. - OPERATIONS WERE HALTED-IN MID-CAREER ON THE.NEW YORK, AMERICAN, "MIDWEST AND PACIFIC STOCK EXCHANGES. -TRADING HAS HALTED IN WOOL, COTTON, COCOA, COFFEE AND SUGAR. , me TRADERS SAID TRADING IN U-S GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, WHICH IS . HANDLED OUT OF THE EXCHANGES AND THROUGH BANKS AND MAJOR BOND AND IWESTMENT HOUSES, GROUND TO A HALT AS THE WORD OF THE ASSASSINATION GOT AROUND. ce THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSED AT 2:07 P= (EST), BUT IT WAS 2:56 BEFORE THE TICKER STOPPED REPORTING PRICES FOR THE DAY. IT SAID: "CLOSE.s«NO CLOSING QUOTATIONS." NO BID AND — ASKED PRICES WERE GIVEN. oh W421PCS11/22 (LAREDO, TEXAS )---THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT HAS ANNOUNCED IT HAS CLOSED THE. BORDER BETWEEN TEXAS AND MEXICO FOR 72 HOURS. ‘THE. ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE THROUGH THE MEXICQN GOVERNMENT'S OFFICE IN LAREDO, TEXAS. ~ W423PCS11/22_—C UPR136 URGENT (THE WHITE HOUSE) ---PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON WILL MEET. AT THE WHITE HOUSE TONIGHT WITH- DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT MCNAMARA AND WHITE HCUSE ‘SECURITY AIDE MCGEORGE BUNDY. AFTER THE MEETING, MR. JOHNSON WILL CONFER WITH CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS. W424PCS1 1/22 UPR137 HEADLINES (0- PRESIDENT KENNEDY IS DEAD OF AN ASSASSIN'S BULLET: FIRED AS HE RCDE IN AN OPEN CAR IN DALLAS.. GOVERNOR JOHN CONNALLY: _ O& TEXAS WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. 7 | | ir DALLAS . POLICE SEIZED LEE H. OSUALD---IDENTIRIED AS CHAIRMAN OF | A "FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE"=-~AS THE PRIME SUSPECT. Ss -~o- 3 VICE PRESIDENT. LYNDON JOHNSON WAS SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: ABOARD THE WHITE HOUSE PLANE AT. THE DALLAS AIRPORT, MRS. KENNEDY WITNESSED THE. CEREMONY. ' -0- POE BIL BRIE EOL T TEL ELE TE EE OTT PE TALI NG ENCE Er OTT TEE ETT eT PONE iT Y ~s . . i 1d