UPR84 , ] MORE SUB KENNEDY X X X HILL. SOME SECRET SERVICE AGENTS THOUGHT THE SHOTS CAME FROM AN AUTOMATIC WEAPON. IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL WHERE THE PRESIDENT WAS HIT..sBUT THE GOVERNOR HAD PLAINLY VISIBLE WOUNDS IN HIST CHEST... INDICATING THE SHOTS -CAME FROM AN AUTOMATIC WEAPON. MORE FK113P11/22CST pres BU LLETIN NEY YORK CITY)==-THE NEW -YORK STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSED OPERATIONS = ' : TODAY AFTER WORD OF THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST PRESIDENT \ KENNEDY. THE COTTON AND THE WOOL EXCHANGES ALSO CLOSED. ~PKL15P41/22CST . UPR &6 - MORE SUB KENNEDY X X X WEAPON. AT THE HEIGHT OF THE EMERGENCY ROOM DRAMA, A VEEPING NEGRO WOMAN BEARING A SHALL. BLOODY CHILD RUSHED INTO THE HOSPITAL WHERE A WURSE AND INTERN QUICKLY WENT TO HER SIDE. ‘ALTHOUGH DALLAS IS REGARDED AS A CENTER OF STRONG POLITICAL OPPOSITION TO MR. KENNEDY...THE. HEAVY STREET CROWDS WERE “OVERWHELMINGLY FRIENDLY. .sBUT THERE WERE A FEW ANTI-KENNEDY PLACARDS... |. THERE WAS ONE REPORT THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS WOUNDED IN THE HEAD. | MRS. KENNEDY WAS HEARD TO SCREAM AS SHE-REACHED FOR HER HUSBAND. © “0 FK117P11/22CST UPR87 ae URGENT (DALLAS )---AT 2212 Pel. EST A SPECIAL CARTON OF BLOOD, APPARENTLY > FOR TRANSFUSION PURPOSES , WAS RUSHED INTO THE EMERGENCY WARD. . TWO DALLAS POLICE OFFICERS CARRIED THE CARTON. FK118P11/22CST “S\ BUREAUS: | “THERE WILL BE NO-SPLIT. UPI/CHICACO | FK130P11/22CST “ UPRSS “URGENT ~ | (DALLAS)---MALCOLM KILDUFF AN ASSISTANT PRESS SECRETARY, SAID HE “CANNOT SAY" WHETHER THE PRESIDENT Is ALIVE "CANNOT SAY WHERE HE WAS MIT." oR HE SAID. "THERE ARE TOO MANY STORIES." . :G151PCST 11/22 | | _UPR99 | MORE KENNEDY BULLETIN XXX SURROUNDED HIM. THE PRESIDENT, CRADLED IN HIS WIFE'S ARMS, HAD BEEN RUSHED as. _ IN HIS BLOCD-SPATTERED LIMOUSINE TO PARKLAND HOSPITAL AND TAKEN. a TO AN EMERGENCY ROOM. AN URGENT CALL WENT OUT FOR NEUROSURGEONS AND BLOOD. HE DIED AT THE HOSPITAL. ae ees _ A141PCD11/22 ¢ "THE SHOTS APPEARED TO HAVE COME FROM A GRASSY KNOLL NEAR - "THE STREET THE MOTORCADE WAS MOVING ALONG... ‘IN THE TURMOIL IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL WHETHER THE SECRET ros SERVICE AGENTS AND. POLICE: RETURNED THE GUNFIRE. MORE A147PCD11/22 ‘BULLETIN (DALLAS )---PRESIDENT.KENNEDY WAS SHOT IN THE RIGHT TEMPLE. eae "IT WAS A SIMPLE: MATTER OF A BULLET RIGHT THROUGH THE’ | “ x , adi ” s 7 . HEAD,". SAID DR. GEORGE BURKLEY, WHITE HOUSE°MEDICAL OFFICER.” 622) ALABPCD11722 0° $ a ’ Ya Y 2 ji v6 ee a t.} . 3 ed ° ” om wih. + . . * tft ¥ ‘ ’ oy rans oe an ’ 4 a Bitte Os tA . . af TES yg! . 2 sige : “ ya $ < Ym air pay oe ey die At Peony . Sa ty Pee he NaN car ; opr 3 J OP BE 4 2 at 34 Aur Aad ‘ PU AR oe Welt pete 3 fhe » r UPR1O06 ‘ \ (DALLAS )---IT IS REPORTED VICE PRESIDENT JOHNSON HAS BEGUN MAKING PLANS TO BE SWORN INTO OFFICE. HE WILL BE THE 36TH PRESIDENT OF. THE UNITED STATES. a -A15SPCD11/22 © ’ UPR107 0. (FeBeI --- WITH KENNEDY) (WASHINGTON)---F-B-I DIRECTOR J. EDGAR HOOVER IMMEDIATELY _ MADE ALL OF HIS AGENTS AND FACILITIES AVAILABLE TO DALLAS. AUTHORITIES TO HELP APPREHEND THOSE GUILTY OF THE ASSASSINATION. ATTEMPT. ON PRESIDENT KENNEDY. _ HOOVER TELEPHONED CITY. OFFICIALS MOMENTS AFTER HE: RECEIVED © of Moe ¢ WORD OF THE ATTEMPT. > A156PCD11/22°.°- UPR112 : (CHICAGO. CASH GRAINS)” | WHEAT UNCHANGED; NO. 2 RED WHEAT 211 1/25 “CORN. 1/2 TO 1/4 LOWER} NO 2 YELLOW 115 1/2- 1163 Noss YELLOW 112 1/2-1163 NO 4 YELLOW 106 1/2-1133 NO 5 YELLOW 99. 4/2- “1055 SAMPLE GRADE’ YELLOW 96 S/He OATS 1/2 HIGHER3- SAMPLE GRADE EXTRA HEAVY WHITE” 65 1/4. RYE UNCHANGED 3 NO 2 PLUMP 144 NOMINAL... _ MALTING BARLEY 123-134 NOMINAL 5 FEED 96-104 NOMINAL. } SOYBEANS UNCHANGED$ NO 1 “YELLOW 267 NOMINAL TRACK CHICAGO.: ~ SR209PCS 11/22 UPR113 1 MORE FOREIGN REACTION - (WITH KENNEDY) THIS IS HOW THE WORLD REACTED TO THE ASSASSINATION THIS AFTERNOON OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY IN DALLAS, TEXAS. A COMMENTATOR FOR MOSCOW RADIO TOLD HIS LISTENERS IN MOURNFUL TONES ---"IT IS SAID HE HAS BEEN MURDERED BY THE _ EXTREME RIGHT WING ELEMENTS." AT THE VATICAN, POPE PAUL THE SIXTH WAS REPORTED TO HAVE” “GONE TO HIS PRIVATE CHAPEL IMMEDIATELY ON HEARING OF T E TRAGEDY. GERMAN RADIO STATIONS BROADCAST THE EVENT IN COLD, CURT SENTENCES AS DETAILS WERE RECEIVED. , | AND AN ARMED FORCES WORKER...BROADCASTING TO AMERICAN TROOPS THROUGHOUT EUROPE. « «WAS UNMISTAKENLY SOBBING AS HE READ 1 THE,REPORT. 1 BERN 7 s.. fis ne THE SOVIET. UNION* LEARNED OF PRES IDENT KENNEDY '’*S DEATH WITH x THIS ANN OUNCEMENT OVER® MOSCOW RADIO. » "JUST NOW IT IS OFFICIALLY # gr axwiounceD THAT PRES IDENT KENNEDY» Has PASSED” AUAY« IT Is 785 ye | SURROSED THAT THE MURDER WAS DONE BY,PERSONS OF THE EXTREME ee Be | DONE BY | a, RIGHT WING: ELEMENT: " a. pron ¥ sovrer; PREMIER NIKITA: KHRUSHCHEV WAS. BELIEVED. TO HAVE BEEN | IN * sour RUSSTA~--NEAR THE: ‘BLACK ‘SEA COAST---WHEN Moscow GOT - m aS ‘THES NEWS “Qe, PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S ‘DEATH. “hs oources’ ‘ASSUMED THAT KHRUSHCHEV WAS INFORMED OF THE tas asSassiatioy Sy way OF AN INTERNAL "HOT LINE" ‘CIRCUIT. ey | Me ey ; See Scr eye Ve ‘ PRINCESS LEE “RADZIWILL, SISTER OF. MRS KENNEDY INFORMED OF i THE ‘ASSASSINATION AT HER ‘LONDON HOME. SHE ANNOUNCED SHE | WILL FLY To THE UNITED STATES EARLY TOMORROW. pein: Be SWEDISH PRIME. MINISTER TAGE ERLANDER COMMENTED ONLY--~- ae ‘ é . x hag? aes DON'T WANT To SAY ANYTHING: NOW EM 7 Poe bs AT, THE, HAGUE, . A: ‘FOREIGN. OFFICE SPOKESMAN ‘SAID. THE: ‘NETHERLANDS ° EO RNIN " EXPRESSES DEEP FELT. HORROR ABOUT. THE TERRIBLE - oy DoF * 2 . ey <0 ATTACK ON. PRES IDENT KENNEDY. = "DEEP AND ‘STRONG SYMPATHY, IS: FELT. In ‘ALL HOLLAND, ‘BOTH: FOR THE. AMERICAN. PEOPLE. AND | PRESIDENT. KENNEDY." : ai Care | IN HOLLAND , RADIO BULLETS WERE HEARD IN GREATEST ‘SHOCK, Nites THE} NEWS WAS GIVEN AT. ONCE: To QUEEN “JULIANA, " * IN HOLLAND, ‘RADIO BULLETINS WERE HEARD IN. GREATEST SHOCK. E THE NEWS WAS GIVEN AT, ONCE TO QUEEN JULIANA. roma "MY GOD," SAID A SPOKESMAN AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE. "HOW. COULD SUCH, A THING HAVE APPEND * ae PB Ek 2 2 Ge fe ‘BRITAIN ‘IS DEEPLY SHOCKED AT THE DEATH OF PRES IDENT KENNEDY. “THESE: REACTIONS FROM PERSONS:,0N THE DOWNTOWN STREETS OF LoNDoN==~ - <0 FROM” A LAWYER---"1 CAN" T BELIEVE ITs.. IT'S THE “WORST. THING Acer couLp HAPPEN, ..HE'S A GREAT FRIEND OF THIS COUNTRY.* “-" “FROM'A SECRETARY==-"0H, NO, IT CAN'T BE TRUE. ‘WHO WOULD : POSSIBLY | WANT:TO DO IT?" | | 3 «FROM A MEAT PACKER---"OH MY GOD. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT." 3 SR221PCS 11/22, | Wetteie ts a7 on et “UPR ~~ wourstie. REATION)=-WITH KENNEDY) (WASHINGT ON)--NEUS OF THE SHOOTING HIT CONGRESS LIKE A THUNDERBOLT. "OH GOD." "THIS IS TERRIBLE." SOME OF THE SHOCKED WORDS. SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY, THE PRESIDENT’S YOUNGEST BROTHER, “WAS PRESID] : | Lge | OVER THE SENATE WHEN HE WAS TOLD. | ATTORNEY GENERAL ROBERT KENNEDY HAD GONE HOME TO MCLEAN, VIRGINIA, FOR, LUNCH WHEN THE NEWS CAME, SENATE DEMOCRATIC LEADER MIKE MANSFIELD SAID... "THIS Is | TERRIBLE. I CAN*T FIND WORDS." a SPEAKER JOHN MCCORMACK WAS VISIBLY AFFECTED. SENATE G-O-P LEADER DIRKSEN SAID "THIS IS THE MOST DISASTROUS THING THAT COULD HIT THIS NATION. THE PRESIDENT® S MOTHER AND FATHER: WERE AT HYANNIS PORT, MASSACHUSETTS, WHEN THE WORD CAME. MRS. KENNEDY IS 72..eMR. KENNEDY IS 75, HE SUFFERED A STROKE IN DECEMBER 1960 AND NEVER FULLY RECOVERED, “ SECRETARY OF STATE RUSK AND OTHER CABINET MEMBERS WERE. ABOARD A PLANE BOUND. FOR JAPAN. THE PLANE TURNED BACK ie BETWEEN HONOLULU AND TOKYO, } - §R224PCS 11/22 ey | ate (KENNEDY. OBIT) © | Pat | tae * JouN FITZGERALD p KENNEDY ee 2 °° “ON A BITTERLY COLD AND. SNOWY DAY IN. JANUARY, 1961, WHEN HE-WAS 5 "INAUGURATED 35TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, JOHN FITZGERALD a KENNEDY. SOUNDED. A CALL TO ACTION THAT IN MANY WAYS SUMMED UP. HIS. OWN, = REMARKABLE, CAREER. “LET THE WORD. Go FORTH FROM THIS TINE ‘AND PLACE, TO FRIEND “AND FOE _ ALIKE," WE SAID, "THAT THE. TORCH HAS. BEEN PASSED. TO A NEW GENERATION 9.2.2) OF AMERICANS-~~BORN IN THIS CENTURY, “ TEMPERED BY WAR, DISCIPLINED BY. oe “A COLD AND BITTER: “PEACE.” i : * ASU NR. KENNEDY WAS ALL THESE, AND HE BORE THE TORCH OF VORLD LEADERSHIP Pe “IN A SOCIETY WHERE THE OLD ORDER WAS CHANGING FAST, 3 ON THAT JANUARY DAY, NO MAN HAD EVER FLOWN’ IN SPACE. a THAT DAY NEGROES IN. SOUTHERN CITIES SUCH “AS JACKSON AND BIRMINGHAM WERE. NOT YET DEMONSTRATING, ON THAT DAY THE WORLD HAD NOT COME | _ CONSCIOUSLY CLOSE TO NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION AS IT DID IN THE GREAT CUBAN » crisis OF 1962. , : ) : } oy es "SURE IT'S A BIG JOB," MR. ee ee “ANYBODY WHO CAN DO IT ANY BETTER THAN I CAN, I'M GOING TO BE IN IT - FOR FOUR YEARS, IT ISN'T GOING TO BESO BAD. ~ YOU'VE GOT TIME TO. _ THINK-=-AND BESIDES, THE PAY IS Goo." Me | HE LATER FOUND OUT--AND CONCEDED-~THAT IT WAS A BIGGER JOB THAN HE ORIGINALLY BELIEVED. BUT. IT IS MOST UNLIKELY THAT HE EVER a “ONCE WAVERED IN THE BELIEF. THAT NO ONE COULD HANDLE IT AS WELL AS HE. “COULD, TO THINK OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE BEEN A NEGATION OF HIS. ‘WHOLE LIFE. . | Bee a PAE _ > THE PRESIDENCY. oF JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY. WAS BORN. IN THE FIERCE’ = PRIDE OF AN IRISH IMMIGRANT FAMILY. ‘It WAS CAREFULLY NURTURED IN THE. , ". TRAINING- STAGES - BY As MULTI “HILLIONAIRE FATHER. « «AND BROUGHT. TO | FRUITION BY THE. MAN HIMSELF THROUGH A DISTINGUISHED. CAREER IN THE.’ | Ate cee AND’ SENATE AND. ON THE TRICKY CAMPAIGN TRAILS OF. AMERICA. INA. MANNER: TYPICAL OF HIS FAMILY, | KENNEDY STARTED AT. ‘THE ‘TOP In: ang MANY. THINGS. © See Se : Shai epi CGN oie SB ! (MORE) - eS , “casopcst 11722. » 6 $ 3", % 4; I HAVE ALWAYS CONSIDETD HIM TO BE A COURAGEOUS ,-3 /HBISHOP HENRY J.TVV UPR116° URGENT (DALLAS ) ---VICE PRESIDENT JOHNSON IS EXPECTED TO: | _ BE SWORN IN-AS PRESIDENT ns OF THE UNITED STATES ABOARD AN AIRLINER — A ee ee tr oe BEF ORE FLYING IMMEDIATELY BACK TO WASHINGTON FROM DALLAS. THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS LEFT THE PARKLAND’ HOSPITAL FOR THE AIRPORT. <° eek SES 228 GA 7PCST. ik AP117° BULLETIN GOVERNMENT SOURCES IN WASHINGTON SAY PRESIDENT KENNEDY IS DEADe - RB234PES 22 \ UPR119 ; BULLETIN. (DALLAS ) ==-VICE VICE PRESIDENT JOHNSON WAS SWORN FN AS 36TH Y _ PRESIDENT CF THE UNITED STATES AT 3:39 PN EST. G255PCST 11/722 | UPR 120 MORE JOHNSON BULLETIN XXX EST.’ HE TOOK THE CATH OF OFFICE-IN THE FORWARD COMPARTMENT Or THE PRESIDENTIAL PLANE AT THE AIRPORT IN DALLAS, UHKY, AMN “ OS MERSHEY 5 PITTSBURGH 3 ~ ~ UPRLAS. MORE SUNDAY. SHOW X X x WASHINGTON. ; (SPECIAL, REPORT-~PART THO) , / 4 -0- THE NAT ION® S NEW PRESIDENT -- THE 36TH IN rts" HISTORY, ee , “LIKES TO DESCRIBE HIMSELF AS A "CROSS BETWEEN A -ROUGHNECK COWBOY + AD A BAPTIST PREACHER." | | LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON WAS BORN AUGUST 277i, 1908, IN JOHNSON CITY, TEXAS, ‘A TOWN NAMED AFTER HIS GRANDFATHER. nS | HE WENT TO WASHINGTON AS A DEVOTEE OF THE NEW DEAL AND OF FRANKLIN: "DELANO ROOSEVELT -- HIMSELF ONCE THE TARGET OF AN ASSASSIN'S GUN, “ASA FRESHMAN CONGRESSMAN, JOHNSON WAS TAKEN UNDER THE WING OF THE “LATE SAM RAYBURN, A FELLOW TEXAN, WHO WAS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE FOR . YEARS. | Be | JOHNSON LEARNED HIS POLITICS WELL, HE WON IIIS FIRST sae as IN 1948 -- BY 87 VOTES, “HE WAS IN THE HOUSE FROM 1937 UNTIL. ‘48, IN 1953, WHEN HE WAS 44, JOHNSON WAS NAMED BY. HIS DEWOCRATIC.: COLLEAGUES AS THEIR LEADER, THE YOUNGEST NAN EVER TO LEAD THE “MAU ORITY PARTY IN THE UPPER HOUSE. (MORE — -RSL1O30PCS 11/23, BULLET WOUNDS WERE PLAINLY VISIBLE IN CONNALLY'S CHEST. so ims DIFFICULT TO TELL AT FIRST WHETHER THE FIRST LADY AND MRS. CONALLY WERE INJURED. AN ESTIMATED. 250-THOUSAND PERSONS LINED THE STREETS. * AT 12:50 PeM CENTRAL TIME, ACTING WHITE HOUSE NEWS SECRETARY “MALCOLM KILDUFF WAS ASKED WHETHER THE PRESIDENT WAS DEAD. HE SAID "I HAVE NO WORD NOW." | VICE PRESIDENT JOHNSON WAS IN THE CAR BEHIND THE PRESIDENT'S. - J THERE WAS NO IMMEDIATE SIGN THAT HE WAS KURT. "(THE WHITE HOUSE)===PRES IDENT LYNDON JOHNSON HAS WOUND UP A BUSY = 12-HOUR WORKDAY, HIS FIRST AS THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE. AND HAS LAID OUT A FULLER SCHEDULE FOR THE HECTIR ‘DAYS THAT LIE AHEAD, i “AT A-BRIEF CABINET MEETING, HR. JOHNSON WON PLEDGES OF. CONTINUED Be SUPPORT. AND COOPERATION FROM DEPARTMENT HEADS CHOSEN BY HIS \. PREDECESSORs° IN TELEPHONE CALLS HE WAS ACCORDED SIMILAR PROMISES FROM ORGANIZED LABOR AND A SPOKESMAN FOR. BIG BUSINESS. : THE NEW PRESIDENT TALKED WITH FORMER PRESIDENTS EISENHOWER AND TRUMAN.» .HE CONSOLED MRS. JACQUELINE KENNEDY AT THE BIER OF HER ASSASSINATED HUSBAND...«AND HE TELEPHONED THE WIFE OF A DALLAS POLICEMAN KILLED IN PURSUIT OF ASSASSIN SUSPECT LEE OSWALD. _ MR. JOHNSON WILL HAVE A HIGH-LEVEL CONFERENCE TOMORROW ON THE WAR “IN SOUTH VIET NAM. SCHEDULED FOR WEDNESDAY. IS MRe JOHNSON'S FIRST POLICY SPEECH BEF ORE A JOINT SESSION OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE. | oo (CHICAGO)---MONDAY, AMERICAN MOURNS THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT JOHN | KENNEDY. BUSINESSES. » «SCHOOLS... GOVERNMENTS WILL CLOSE TO PAY “TRIBUTE TO THE CHIEF. EX ECUTIVE KILLED YESTERDAY. THE BALTIMORE AND. e OHIO RAILROAD WILL STOP ALL ITS TRAINS FOR ONE MINUTE: DURING THE FUNERAL: 2 “0. SERVICE, THE STOCK AND ‘COMMODITY. MARKETS WILL BE CLOSED. STORES AND BANKS. IN. SCORES OF CITIES WILL NOT. OPEN AND. SEVERAL UNIVERSITIES HAVE CANCELLED CLASSES AND WILL HOLD MENORIAL SERVICES. - RS1027PCS 11/23, URGENT CHYANNIS PORT, MASSACHUSETTS )---PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S MOTHER AND - - FATHER HAVE BEEN ADVISED THAT THEIR SON WAS SHOT IN DALLAS. THEY ARE IN HYANNIS PORT, MASSACHUSETTS. —-FK106P11/22CST fill 7 preniniaeeeOe ORY GUEIN YT ee Ek 4 “2 (SUB KENNEDY). ~ (ALLAS)===PRESIDENT KENNEDY HAS BEEN SHOT.. 20 SHE. IS” PERHAPS “FATALLY WOUNDED. - : 4 at . ‘ -THE PRESIDENT ‘AND TEXAS GOVERNOR JOHN CONNALLY WERE CUT DOWN 9 <« ". BYJASSASSIN'S BULLETS AS THEY TOURED DOWNTOWN DALLAS IN AN OPEN CARs THE PRESIDENT'S BODY WAS LIMP,,.CRADLED IN THE ARMS OF. HIS "WIFE. HE WAS RUSHED TO PARKLAND. HOSPITAL... THE GOVERNOR. ALSO. WAS 809 0 0S . TAKEN THERE, ~- ACALL WENT OUT. FOR TOP SURGICAL SPECIALISTS. © ~A/ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST ALSO WAS SENT FOR. ©. ae ae ra hours aor POND Soe SHORTLY AFTER THE SHOOTING.. «CONGRESSMAN JIM WRIGHTSOPFORT, e807 UG 4 an : ~ ‘ . i . . eo paras Stns : ' 5 , ; Sa} eal . - ae te Sg Bath atm sera Tee ries TOP Gin PR atic ten Ay put WERE ALIVE.” : "BLOOD WAS SPATTERED. OVER THE WHITE MOUSE CAR. Ry KENNEDY wag SLUMPED OVER THE BACK SEAT. CONNALLY LAY 03 THE'FLOOR OF THE REAR’ SEAT. mR, KENNEDY APPARENTLY UAS NOT HURT. MRS. CONNALLY ALSO WAS SAFE. _ UITNESSES SAID THERE. WERE THREE LOUD BURSTS OF “GUNFIRE. . MOTORCYCLE POLICE ESCORTING THE’ PRESIDENT QUICKLY LEAPED FRO THEIR, BIKES: AND RACED UP A. GRASSY HILL. was (SUB KENNEDY) (DALLAS )---PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND GOVERNOR JOHN CONNALLY OF TEXAS HAVE BEEN CUT DOWN BY ASSASSIN’S BULLETS. THEY WERE SHOT AS THEY “TOURED DOWNTOWN DALLAS IN AN OPEN CAR. THE PRESIDENT---HIS LINP BODY IN THE ARMS OF HIS WIFE---WAS RUSHED TO PARKLAND HOSPITAL. THE GOVERNOR ALSO WAS TAKEN TO THE SAME HOSPITAL. CLINT HILL, A SECRET SERVICE AGENT ASSIGNED TO MRS, KENNEDY SAID WIE'S DEAD" AS THE PRESIDENT uas LIFTED FROM THE REAR OF -THE WHITE HOUSE TOURING CAR. MR. KENNEDY WAS “RUSHED TO AN EMERGENCY ROOM IN THE HOSPITAL. OTHER WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS WERE IN DOUBT AS THE CORRIDORS OF THE HOSPITAL ERUPTED IN PANDEMONIUM. THE INCIDENT OCCURRED JUST EAST OF THE TRIPLE UNDERPASS FACING A PARK IN DOWNTOWN DALLAS. NEWSMEN IN: THE MOTORCADE HEARD WHAT SOUNDED LIKE THREE BURSTS OF GUNFIRE, THE PRESIDENT WAS SLUMPED OVER THE BACK SEAT OF THE CARseeFACE DOWN. .. CONNALLY LAY ON THE FLOOR OF. THE REAR SEAT. IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL’ AT ONCE WHERE KENNEDY WAS HIT. < 2 ‘AP133 Mead SPOT SUMMARY. HERE IS THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS? (DALLAS)==PRESIDENT KENNEDY WAS SHOT TO DEATH TODAY. - , (DALLAS) -~A HIDDEN SNIPER WITH A RIFLE: SHOT THE 46-YEAR-OLD | PRESIDENT AS HIS MOTORCADE WENT THROUGH AN UNDERPASS LEADING OUT OF | THE DOWNTOWN PART OF DALLAS» ) “(DALLAS )=-MRS« KENNEDY, RIDING WITH THE PRESIDENT, : HELD HIS’ BLEEDING HEAD AS HE WAS RUSHED TO. A HOSPITAL IN.A VAIN EFFORT TO SAVE HIS LIFEs (DALLAS)- -GOVERNOR JOHN CONNALLY OF TEXAS, RIDING WITH THE PRESIDENT, WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED IN THE SHOOTING AND UNDERWENT SURGERY - IN THE HOSPITAL. (WASHINGTON )=-PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S BROTHER EDWARD, A U-S SENATOR, |. WAS PRESIDENT OVER THE SENATE WHEN NEWS. OF . THE. SHOOTING REACHED. “WIM? THE SENATE INNEDI ATELY RECESSED. (NEW YORK) -=THE SOVIET NEWS AGENCY TASS CARRIED NEWS OF KENNEDY'S - DEATH AS -A- FLASH ON ITs INTERNATIONAL ENGLI SH-LANGUAGE RADI O-TELETYPE © CIRCUIT. - ; RB320PES 22 SOME’ OF THE SECRET SERVICE AGENTS THOUGHT THE GUNFIRE WAS FROM AN AUTOMATIC WEAPON FIRED TO THE RIGHT REAR OF THE PRESIDENT'®S CARs e sPROBABLY FROM A GRASSY KNOLL TO WHICH POLICE RUSHED. _ CONGRESSMAN JIM WRIGHT OF, FORT WORTH SAID BOTH KENNEDY AND CONNALLY <_, VERE SERIOUSLY WOUNDED BUT WERE ALIVE. A CALL HAS BEEN SENT OUT FROM SOME OF THE TOP SURGICAL SPECIALISTS IN DALLAS. A CALL ALSO WENT OUT FOR A PRIEST. FK1P11/22CST © IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SWEARING-IN CEREMONY, THE AIRLINER CARRIED. - HIM BACK TO WASIIINGTON, - DURING THE CEREMONY IT WAS STILL PARKED WHERE IT HAD LANDED TO BRING PRESIDENT KENNEDY TO- DALLAS THIS MORNING. ~~ G259PCs : , , Od PONCE) PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON TOOK OVER THE REINS OF STATE TODAY, WINNING PLEDGES OF UNITY AND SUPPORT FROM ‘TOP LEADERS OF GOVERNMENT, BUSINESS AND LABOR. ‘HE TOPPED OFF HIS FIRST DAY AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE BY SCHEDULING A HIGH=LEVEL CONFERENCE TOMORROW ON THE WAR IN SOUTH VIET NAM. THE NEW PRESIDENT WILL TALK TUESDAY WITH THE CHIEFS OF STATE CF A NUMBER OF COUNTRIES IN WASHINGTON TO ATTEND FUNERAL SERVICES OF THE LATE PRESIDENT KENNEDY. | WEDNESDAY, HE WILL MAKE HIS FIRST MAJOR POLICY SPEECH BEFORE A JOINT. . SESSION OF CONGRESS, , ab | AT HIS CONFERENCE TOMORROW, MR. JOHNSON WILL TALK WITH U-S AMBASSADOR HENRY CABOT ‘LODGE, WITH DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT. MCNAMARA AND WITH SECRETARY OF STATE DEAN RUSK ON THEIR DISCUSSIONS IN HONOLULU LAST WEEK ON THE WAR SITUATION IN SOUTH VIET NAM. THAT WILL BE ONLY A PART OF THE PRESIDENT'S BUSY DAY. HE HAS SCHEDULED A WHITE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING COVERING THE WORLD SITUATION... LATER IN THE MORNING, HE AND. MRS, JOHNSON WILL ATTEND SERVICES AT ST. MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. THEN HE WILL JOIN THE CORTECE THAT WILL CARRY: THE BODY. OF THE LATE PRESIDENT TO THE CAPITOL ROTUNDA. .; "TODAY ALSO WAS A BUSY ONE FOR THE NEY PRESIDENT. - AT A BRIEF CABINET MEETING. ..THE FIRST CALLED BY MR, JOHNSON, » HE RECEIVED PROMISES OF CONTINUED SERVICE AND COOPERATION FROM THE MEN CHOSEN BY HIS PREDECESSOR. _ EES rey iS EARLIER IN THE DAY AND BY TELEPHONE, MR. JCHNSON. WON. PLEDGES OF once HELP FROM. AFL-CIO PRESIDENT, GEORGE EANY, REPRESENTING ORGANIZED. LABOR. 4s! “AND FROM FREDERICK KAPPEL, PRESIDENT OF AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, REPRESENTING THE NATION" S BUSINESS: LEADERS. . HE PAUSED TO DECLARE MONDAY AS A. DAY OF NATIONAL MOURNING. «AND | TO CONSOLE MRS « KENNEDY AT THE BIER OF THE LATE PRESIDENT. MRe JOHNSON HAD LUNCH WITH FORMER. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER AND. MET. FORMER’ PRESIDENT. TRUMAN AT HIS. OLD VICE PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE. | Fos "DURING THE DAY, HE AND MRS. JOHNSON ATTENDED SPECIAL SERVICES AT THE" HISTORIC : "CHURCH OF THE PRESIDENTS" eeeST. JOHN!S EPISCOPAL« «« AROUND | z LAFAYETTE SQUARE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. 7 ae HE HAS ASKED ALL U-s AMBASSADORS AND OTHER TOP DIPLOMATS OVERSEAS TO. REMAIN AT THEIR POSTS. | eo AND. BETWEEN VISITORS AND HURRIED ‘CONFERENCES, THE NEW CHIEF’ EXECUTIVE: | o8 TELEPHONED THE WIDOW OF DALLAS PATROLMAN J-D TIPPITT, WHO WAS ae cei IN THE POST-ASSASSINATION MANHUNT. _ BULLETIN (DALLAS)--PRESIDENT KENNEDY.IS DEAD. HE DIED — IN A-HOSPITAL AFTER BEING CUT DOWN BY AN ASSASSIN'S BULLET WHILE HIS "MOTORCADE WAS MOVING ALONG ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF DALLAS. TEXAS GOVERNOR JOHN CONNALLY ALSO WAS SHOT. "THERE IS NO WORD ON HIS FATE. THERE sag‘a’aisoar THAT VICE-PRESIDENT JOHNSON ALSO HAD BEEN WOUNDED, BUT THIS WAS DENIED BY MRS. JOHNSON. ° 4 FIRST WORD OF THE ener 8 earn cue FROM TUO PRIESTS AS THEY LEFT PARKLAND HOSPITAL" SENERGENCY WARD, WHERE THE PRESIDENT “MAS TAKEN. Page ER ys Lee yee NA a teers "THEIR ANNOUNCEMENT BROUGHT AUDIBLE SOBS FROM ‘A CROWD OF SCORES NEWSMEN AND OTHER CITI ‘ZENS. “CONFIRMATION OF THE PRESIDENT'S DEATH CAME QUICKLY FROM “WASHINGTON.