UPR49 SIXTH WORLD IN BRIEF _ 7 O- LATE NEWS FROM UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL? (THE WHITE HOUSE) ---JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, 1917-1963, FORTY-SIX YEARS. BRILLIANT, YEARS...YEARS OF CRISIS THAT DEVELOPED THE LAD FROM MASSACHUSETTS INTO THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD AND GUARDIAN OF THE DESTINIES OF MILLIONS OF MEN. THOSE YEARS ENDED IN DALLAS WHEN TWO BULLETS RIPPED INTO JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY'S BODY...ONE SMASHING INTO HIS BRAIN, ' THR OTHER RIPPING THROUGH HIS NECK AND CHEST, : IT WAS THE END OF ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT CAREERS THE WORLD HAS KNOUN...THE END OF A "GREAT AND GOOD" MAN. ALL CAME TO A HALT AS THE FINGER ON THE TRIGGER OF A HIGH-POWERED RIFLE ABOVE A DALLAS STREET TWITCHED UPON IMPULSE FROM A TWISTED MIND. LESS. THAN 15 HOURS LATER, A BRONZE CASKET CONTAINING THE _ PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES LAY ON A PLATFORM DRAPED IN BLACK: “IN THE FAMOUS EAST ROOM OF THE WHITE HOUSE. IT IS SAID THE SAME PLATFORM HELD THE CASKET OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN A CENTURY ACO AFTER AN ASSASSIN'S BULLET ENDED ANOTHER BRILLIANT CAREER. -~9- -uprst! (WITH KENNEDY---CUSHING) (BOSTON)===RICHARD CARDINAL CUSHING DELIVERED A EULOGY OF THE LATE PRESIDENT KENNEDY THIS MORNING DURING A MASS NATIONALLY TELEVISED FROM BOSTON. , ; HE STOOD BEFORE A SIMPLE WHITE ALTAR. | A TALL, ROBUST MAN, CARDINAL CUSHING LOOKED TIRED AS HE SPOKE OF A MAN WHOM HE HAD KNOWN FOR MANY YEARS, | HERE IS THE EULOGY DELIVERED BY CARDINAL CUSHING: a A SHOCKED AND STRICKEN WORLD STANDS HELPLESS BEFORE THE FACT OF DEATH---THAT DEATH’ BROUGHT TO US THROUGH A TRAGICALLY SUCCESSFUL _ ASSAULT UPON THE LIFE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. QUR EARLIEST DISBELIEF HAS SLOWLY GIVEN WAY TO SORROW AS MILLIONS ALL VER THE EARTH JOIN US IN LAMENTING A SILENCE THAT CAN NEVER AGAIN BE BROKEN, AND THE ABSENCE OF A SMILE THAT CAN NEVER BEEN SEEN AGAIN. | FOR THOSE OF US WHO KNEW THE PRESIDENT AS FRIEND As WELL AS. STATESMAN, WORDS MOCK OUR ATTEMPTS TO EXPRESS THE ANGUISH OF OUR HEARTS. | | IT WAS MY PRIVILEGE TO NAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH JOHN F< KENNEDY- FROM THE EARLIEST DAYS OF HIS PUBLIC LIFE---TO HAVE WATCHED HIM MATURE WITH EVER-EXPANDING RESPONSIBILITY---TO HAVE .KNOWN SOME OF THE WARMTH \. OF HIS: HARDY: FRIENDSHIP-=-TO SEF TESTED UNDER PAIN AND LOSS THE STEELY STRENGTH OF HIS CHARACTER, I MAVE BEEN WITH HIM IN JOY AND IN “SORROW, IN DECISION AND IN CRISIS, AMONG FRIENDS AND. VITH STRANGERS , AND I KNOW CF NO ONE WHO HAS COMBINED IN MORE NOBLE PERFECTION THE QUALITIES OF GREATNESS THAT MARKED-HIS COOL INTELLIGENCE AND-HIS BRAVE. CMEART. Eee | 3 NOW, OF A SUDDEN, HE HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM US AND WE SHALL NOT SEE HIS LIKE AGAIN. , MANY THERE ARE WHO WILL APPROPRIATELY PAY TRIBUTE TO THE PRESIDENT AS A WORLD FIGURE, TO HIS SKILL IN POLITICAL LIFE, AND TO “HIS DEVOTION IN PUBLIC SERVICE. MANY OTHERS WILE MEASURE THE WIDE INTERESTS OF HIS MIND, THE SUFITNESS OF HIS RESOLUTION, THE POWER OF HIS PERSUASION, AND THE EFFICIENCY OF HIS ACTION. FOR ME, IT WILL BE PROPER TO RECALL HIM ON THIS DAY OF MOURNING ,AS HUSBAND AND FATHER, SURROUNDED BY HIS YOUNG AND BELOVED FAMILY, ALTHOUGH THE DEMANDS OF OFFICE CARRIED HIM OFTEN ON LON JOURNEYS AND FILLED EVEN HIS DAYS AT HOME WITH ENDLESS LABORS, HOW OFTEN HE WOULD MAKE TIME TO SHARE WITH HIS SON AND DAUGHTER THOSE FEW MINUTES THAT CCULD BE IS, WHAT A PRECIOUS TREASURE THEY ARE IN THE MEMORIES NE re Tae ore vel. Bt EbadoveVaba ebb Saleh LIT nrTcrs TrAMS mo pas ae emi ooo Va Doo. fd i) OMT 2 OP ten ere Leo ree PS Oe ee wT it ~ TwyT oy baka VoCe mse oe hmecel a) kT IMT 1mdbd S.C ASOD gested hale ad Gh alDAlahaleaba — i daa oS UTTUF -— a2 sawreyg a4 wilaw om, 2ST ST Se Fe as Soke ee ed a" ~ ww TY wo te ht (F TWO FATHERLESS CHILDREN! WHO AMONG US CAN FORGET THOSE CHILDISH WAYS . WHICH, FROM TIME TO TIME, ENHANCED THE ELEGANCE oF THE EXECUTIVE MANSION WITH THE TOUCHING SCENES OF A HAPPY FAMILY LIFE! ~o- MORE) JJ1012ACS 114/24, UPR54 MORE CUSHING EULOGY (UPR51) X X X FAMILY LIFE, AT HIS SIDE, IN UNDERSTANDING AND AFFECTION, HAS STOOD ALWAYS HIS GRACIOUS AND CHARMING JACQUELINE, TRUE ALYAYS TO THE OBLIGATIONS OF HER ROLE AS MOTHER, SHE HAS GIVEN NEW DIMENSIONS To THE TRYING DEMANDS OF BEING AMERICA'S FIRST LADY. THE PRIDE IN MER HUSBAND, WHICH HE SO EMINENTLY JUSTIFIED, WAS SO PLAINLY RECIPROCATED IN HIS RIDE OF HER, | FRO: VHEREVER MEN LOOK OUT IN ENTERNITY To SEE THE WORKINGS OF OUR WORLD, JOHN KENNEDY MUST BEAM WITH NEW PRODE IN THAT VALIANT WOMAN WHO SHARED HIS LIFE EVEN TO. THE MOMENT OF ‘ITS CLOSE. THESE HOURS MUST BE NORE DIFFICULT FOR HER THAN FOR ANY OTHER, BUT PROVIDENCE HAS BLESSED HER AS FEW SUCH WOMEN IN HISTORY BY ALLOWING HER HERO HUSBAND TO HAVE THE. DYING COMFORT OF HER ARMS. WHEN MEN SPEAK OF THIS SAD HOUR IN TIMES To COME, THEY WILL-EVER — RECALL HOW WELL HER FRAIL BEAUTY MATCHED IN COURAGE THE STALWART WARRIOR WHO WAS HER HUSBAND. OUR .CITIZENS WHO HAD so MANY REASONS | FOR HOLDING HER PERSON IN A MOST PROFOUND RESPECT MUST NOW FIND AN EVEN WIDER CLAIM FOR THE NOBILITY OF HER SPIRIT. , ™ /RD103 ACS 11/24 UPRS56 . (KENNEDY=--ROTUNDA) | GIASINGTON)=--THE NATION'S CAPITAL WAS. UNDER LINGERING SADNESS BUT CLEAR, COLD SKIES TODAY AS IT PREPARED FOR THE REMOVAL OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S BODY FROM THE WNITE HOUSE TO THE CAPITOL, WHERE IT WILL LIE IN STATE IN THE GREAT ROTUNDA. THE GREY NOVEMBER RAIN OF YESTERDAY LIFTED DURING THE NIGHT. THE SLOW PROCESSION BEARING THE PRESIDENT'S BODY UP ENNSYLVANIA AVE. STARTS AT 1 PeM EST. IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS, THE CITY WAS STILL DESERTED. MANY SHOPS AND COVERNMENT BUILDINGS ALONG THE WAY WERE DRAPED IN BLACK BUNTING, AND BLACK BORDERED PICTURES OF THE LATE PRESIDENT APPEARED IN WINDOWS. THE STREETS OF THE CAPITAL WORE A WASHED LOOK. “THE BROAD SYEEP OF PENNSYLVANIA AND CONSTITUTION AVENUES ALONG WHICH THE FUNERAL CORTECE WAS TO PASS APPEARED TO BE WIDER THAN USUAL. THE-ILLUSION HAD BEEN CREATED BY THE REMOVAL DURING THE NIGHT O TRAFFIC LIGHT POLES WHICH NORMALLY STAND IN THEIR CENTER AT , STREET INTERSECTIONS. —~ , oe ‘TELEVISION CAMERA SCAFFOLDS HAD ALREADY BEEN SET UP AT STRATEGIC POINTS ALONG THE ROUTE BETWEEN THE UMITE HOUSE AND CAPITOL HILL. PLANS HAVE BEEN MADE FOR EVERY AVAILABLE POLICEMAN TO BE ON DUTY : FERAL HOURS BEFORE THE CORTEGE I$ DUE TO LEAVE THE WHITE HOUSE SO THAT THE ROUTE WILL BE CLEARED IN GOOD TIME TO ENABLE _ MILITARY GUARDS TO LINE IT. , POLICE ARRANGEMENTS CALLED FOR THE DIVERSION OF ALL TRAFFIC FROM :PENNSYLVANIA AND CONSTITUTION AVENUE ES. HALF AN NOUR BEFORE THE CORTEGE WAS. DUE TO LEAVE THE WHITE HOUSE TRAFFIC WAS FORBIDDEN TO CROSS THEM. THE BEAT OF MUFFLED MILITARY DRUMS WILL SET THE PACE OF THE “PROCESSION WHICH WILL MOVE AT THE STEADY RATE OF 100 PACES TO THE MINUTE AND TAKE 48 MINUTES TO COVER THE 1.8 MILES OF THE ROUTE. A POLICE DETACHMENT WILL HEAD THE PROCESSION. . THIS WILL PE FOLLOWED. BY - DRUMMERS FROM THE NAVY, ARMY, AIR FORCE, MARINE CORPS AND COAST — GUARD. ° | . ee - BEHIND A UNIT OF NAVY ENLISTED MEN P PARTICIPATING AS HONORARY PALLBEARERS WILL COME THE SENIOR OFFICERS OF THE NATION'S. ARMED ~~ FORCES, HEADED BY GENERAL MAXWELL TAYLOR AND WILL > FORM A» SPECIAL}. HONOR. THEY ARE TO BE FOLLOWED BY A SOLDIER BEARING THE STARS AND STRIFES AND FLANKED BY A MARINE AW) alR-TOtCE Mel BY. FING RIFLES. ‘BEHIND THEM WILL COME THE CAISSON BEARING THE FLAG-COVERED CASKET CONTAINING THE PRESIDENT'S BODY. THE CAISSON WILL BE DRAWN : BY SEVEN GRAY HORSES. AN ESCORT OF 20 UNIFORMED MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES WILL FLANK IT. BEHIND THE CAISSON A SOLDIER WILL LEAD A RIDERLESS MOUNT KNOWN AS SLACK JACK. THE HORSE WILL BE FULLY SADDLED, WITH BOOTS REVERSED - IN THE STIRRUPS AS A SIGN OF GRIEF FOR A DEAD WARRIOR, IN THIS CASE THE NATION'S LATE CONMANDER-IN-CHIEF. ] BEHIND BLACK JACK A SOLITARY SAILOR WILL BEAR THE PRESIDENTS | FLAG. ; FOLLOWING THE MILITARY DETACHMENTS WILL COME A FLEET OF AUTOMOBILES , ‘BEARING MRS. KENNEDY AND MEMBERS OF THE KENNEDY. FAMILY, PRESIDENT JOHNSON, LEADERS OF CONCRASS, MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME COURT AND THE CLERGY, VISITING DIGNITARIES AND OTHERS, | | UPON ARRIVAL AT THE CAPITOL PLAZA THE AIR FORCE PAND WILL PLAY FOUR RUFFLES AND FLOURISHES AND HAIL TO THE CHIEF AND A HYMN CHOSEN BY THE KENNEDY FAMILY. . AS THE HYMN IS PLAYED A 21-GUN SALUTE WILL BE FIRED AND A PARTY OF SERVICENEN WILL CARRY THE PRESIDENT'S BODY FROM THE CAISSON To | THE LYING-IN-STATE. IN THE ROTUNDA, | BULLETIN DALAS---LEE HARVEY OSWALE / DALLS--LE HARVEY OSWALD, ACCUSED PRESIENTIAL ASSASSIN, WAS’ SHOT TODAY AS HE YAS BEING) ‘ T ‘ ‘ RANSFERRED TO ANOHER JAIL. (MORE) W1125ACS UPRTS | : aR 2 MORE NINTH. WORLD. IN BRIEF XXX CLUB. ee (WAS KINGTON) -=- PRESIDE NT. JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY HAS MADE A LAST, SAD JOURNEY FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TO’THE CAPITOL BUILDING, "THOUSANDS OF THE 46~YEAR- -OLD MURDERED ‘RESIDENT'S FELLOW AMERICANS LINED. PENNSYLVANIA AND CONSTITUTION AVENUES FOR. THE GRIM 3 PROCESSION. MANY WERE LINING THIS SAME ROUTE NEARLY THREE. YEARS AGO. WHEN MR, KENNEDY RODE TO THE WHITE HOUSE. IN ‘TRIUMPH AFTER HIS - INAUGURAL. | CHEERS FILLED THE AIR ON THAT. GREAT DAY. ©THE CROWDS WERE WILD. TODAY. «A PALL OF QUIET SORROW HUNG OVER THE FAMED AVENUES AS | MR. KENNEDY'S CASKET WAS BORNE TO THE’CAPITOL. ON THE SAME CAISSON- THAT 1g YEARS AGO CARRIED THE BODY OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT OVER THE. SAME STREETS. . oss 2 RO Ge - JACQUELINE KENNEDY FOLLOWED THE BODY FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. WITH (NE HAND THE YOUNG WIDOW HELD SIX-YEAR-OLD CAROLINE, WITH THE OTHER, THREE-YEAR-OLD JOHN, JUNIOR. renee BOTH CHILDREN LOOKED BEWILDERED. CAROLINE APPEARED TO BE FIGHTING TEARS. 2 MRS. KENNEDY'S FACE WAS DRAWN WITH GRIEF. i 2 THE PROCESSION MOVED TO THE CAPITOL TO THE DOOMSDAY SOUND OF- MUFFLED DRUMS. THE THROBBING SOUND SET THE GRIM PACE, THE SHOCKING REALITY THAT A PRESIDENT HAD BEEN ASSASSINATED WAS - EVIDENT ALL ALONG THE PARADE ROUTE, SECRET SERVICE AGENTS AND OTHER POLICE SCANNED ROOFTOPS AND BUILDINGS. | LITTLE COULD BE HEARD BUT THE SOLEMN SOUND OF THE DRUMS AS THE PROCESSION MOVED SLOWLY THROUGH CANYONS OF SILENT PEOPLE...19, 20 EVEN 30 DEEP IN SOME SPOTS, : | THE SIX WHITE HORSES PULLING THE CAISSON HELD THE PACE OF THE DRUMS PERFECTLY...A PACE OF 100 STEPS PER MINUTE. AS THE CORTEGE PASSED, MEN REMOVED THEIR HATS. TEARS STREAMED. DOWN MANY ROUGH-LINED CHEEKS AND STREAKED WOMEN'S MAKEUP. | WITH THE THROB OF THE DRUMS...THE FLAG DRAPED COFFIN -OF THE — NARTYRED PRESIDENT ARRIVED AT THE CAPITOL PLAZA...A STONE'S THROW AWAY FROM THE SPOT WHERE ON JANUARY 20TH, 1561, PRESIDENT KENNEDY ROUSED THE NATION WITH A STIRRING INAUGURAL ADDRESS...A CALL TO : “THIS GENERATION OF AMERICANS. os | “3 UPR7S BUL LET IN (DALLAS )e---THE ACCUSED ASSASSIN OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY. «LEE WARVEY: CSWALD» eS DEAD. HE-WAS SHOT WOLE BEING TRANSFERRED PROU DALLAS .E SJUNTY JAIL A FEW HOURS AGO. POLICE ARE HOLDING NIGHTCLUB OWNER JACK RUBY IN CONNECTION WITH THE KILLING. DOCTORS. SPENED “OSWALD'S “NEART AT PARKLAND HOSPITAL ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AFTER Me YAS RUSHED INTO, THE HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM. THEIR ATTEMPT AT HEART MASSAGE FAILED, OSWALD DIED IN AN OPERATING ROOM ONLY SOME. 19 FEET FROM THE SPOT WHERE PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED FRIDAY FROM BULLET WOUNDS ALLEGEDLY INFLICTED BY THE 24-YEAR-OLD OSWALD. UPR79 (SUB OSYALD) (DALLAS) ---THE ACCUSED ASSASSIN OF PRESIDENT KEN INEDY WAS KILLED - TODAY. : | HE DIED AT PARKLAND HOSPITAL IN DALLAS ABOUT TWO-NOURS AFTER HE WAS SHOT IN THE BASEMENT OF CITY HALL.. : OSWALD. WAS SHOT BY A NIGHTCLUB OWNER IN DALLAS. POLICE IDENTIFIED HIM AS JACK RUBY. | HE 24-YEAR-OLD EX-MARINE WAS TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO THE OSPITAL- WHERE ON FRIDAY, PRESIDENT KENNEDY EXPIRED. HE WAS WHEELED INTO AN EMERGENCY ROOM ACROSS THE. CORRIDOR ANB 10— FEET FROM THE ROOM VHERE MR. KENNEDY DIED. 3 | THE: SHOOTING OCCURRED WHILE OSWALD WAS BEING TRANSFERRED FROM CITY TO COUNTY JAIL. | SURGEONS WORKED DESPERATELY TO SAVE ‘OSWALD 'S LIFE. HIS HEART. ° STOPPED BEATING IN SURGERY AND HIS. CHEST WAS. OPENED. FOR HEART MASSAGE. FOR A TIME, THE: BEAT OF HIS HEART WAS KEPT GOING WITH ANS ELECTRONIC PACEMAKER. 3 | | THE HOSPITAL EARLIER DESCRIBED OSWALD AS SUFFERING "SEVERE MASSIVE INJURY TO THE ABDOMEN AND MAJOR VESSEL INJURY." TO RE-CAP THE EVENTS: AS MENTIONED, OSUALD WAS BEING TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER JAIL. | SUDDENLY, THE WAN IDENTIFIED AS RUBY LEAPED OVER A RAILING... SHOUTING 'A CURSE, . AND. FIRED POINT BLANK AT. OSWALD. ABOUT 100 POLICEMEN, DETECTIVES AND NEWSMEN---THE ‘LATTER. CAREFULLY SCREENED---WERE IN THE CITY HALL BASEMENT WHEN OSWALD WAS SHOT. , . | | oye ara SERGEANT P.T. DEAN SAID HE HAD NOT SEEN RUBY ENTER THE ROOM, "I KNOW HIM BY SIGHT. I DIDN'T SEE HIM. IF I HAD SEEN HIM, I WOULD HAVE THROWN HIM OUT," THE OFFICER SAID. TIGHT SECURITY PRECAUTIONS HAD BEEN MADE TO GUARD: THE “ALLEGED. ASSASSIN. DARK CORNERS OF THE BUILDING HAD BEEN SEAR HED WITH FLASH-LIGHTS. , : ; -RUBY, A PORTLY, BALDING MAN WITH A GRAY FRINGE OF HAIR IS. WELL KNOWN IN DALLAS BUT NOT Kou TO BE PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN “POLITICS. | s | AT LEAST EIGHT OFFICERS WRESTLED RUBY TO THE GROUND. THEY CRABBED THE SMALL, FLAT REVOLVER, JERKED HIM UP AND RUSHED HIM INTO AN ELEVATOR. | | THE BASEMENT WAS THE SCENE OF MASS CONFUSION AFTER THE SHOOTING. DETECTIVES AND OTHER OFFICERS, ATTEMPTING TO GET THE WOUNDED .OSWALD BACK INTO THE BOOKING OFFICE, JAMMED THEMSELVES IN A DOORWAY AND cout, NOT MOVES ; Saar NEWSMEN ENTERING THE BASEMENT AREA PRIOR TO THE SHOOTING HAD BEEN REQUIRED TO SHOW CREDENTIALS. OTHERS ALSO PRESUMABLY HAD UNDERGONE’ POLICE CHECKS. HOW RUBY GOT IN REMAINED A MYSTERY. JHEN OSWALD ARRIVED AT THE HOSPITAL ON A STR ETCHER AT 12:32 CEST) “WIS EYES WERE CLOSED AND HIS FACE TWISTED IN PAIN, HIS LEFT LEG WAS DRAUN UP AND HE WAS WRITHING ON THE STRETCHER. | INSIDE, A TRACHEOTOMY WAS PERFORMED ON OSWALD, A TUBE WAS: INSERTED IN HIS THROAT TO EASE BREATHING, THE SAME OPERATION PERFORMED. ON THE © IATE PRESIDENT. , THE COUNTY JAIL WHERE OSWALD WAS TO BE TAKEN IS LOCATED ABOUT A MILE FROM CITY HALL. IT IS A MAXIMUM SECURITY FACILITY, USED TO HOUSE” PRISONERS CHARGED WITH A. FELONY. -OSWALD'S BROTHER, ROBERT, A BRICK SALESMAN IN DENTON, TEXAS, ARRIVED WITHIN AN HOUR. SECRET SERVICEMEN ACCOMPANIED HIM, . HE DID NOT SPEAK TO NEWSMEN. | mie DOESN'T WANT TO TALK TO ANYONE," AN AGENT SAID. THE WOUNDED OSWALD WENT INTO SURGERY AT 12:42 P.M. EST. "THERE WAS NO IMMEDIATE SIGN OF OSNALD'S RUSSIAN WIFE, MARINA, WHO HAS BED! VISITING HIM WITH THEIR TWO CHILDREN IN JAIL. SHE LIVES IN A DALLAS SUBURB. \. OSWALD HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF THE PRESIDENT AND THE SLAYING OF A CITY POLICEMAN. | HE HAS NOT CONFESSED, BUT HIS SULLEN COMPOSURE WAS SHAKEN YESTERDAY WHEN POLICE CONFRONTED HIM WITH PHOTOS THAT SHOWED HIM POSING WITH THE RIFLE ALLEGEDLY USED TO SHOOT THE PRESIDENT. ) | HE ALSO POSED-WITH THE PISTOL USED TO SHOOT THE PATROLMAN. OSWALD HAS ADMITTED’ OWNING THE PISTOL, AND HIS HANDWRITING WAS WK FOR THE 12- “DOLLAR-78 ‘CENT MAIL- -ORDER “RIFLE, eee UPR) — CRUBY--WITH OSWALD) | > “(DALLAS )=-ASSOCIATES OF JACK RUBY, THE FIFTYISH DALLAS NIGHTCLUB OPERATOR IN CUSTODY FOR THE FATAL SHOOTING OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD, SAY HE HAS BEEN OPERATING IN THE DALLAS NIGHT LIFE SCENE FOR ABOUT. - THE LAST 10 YEARS, - 7 : ; A BACHELOR, RUBY WENT TQ DALLAS. FROM CHICAGO, AND ENGAGED IN THE OPERATION OF A NUMBER OF DINE-AND=DANCE ESTABLISHMENTS UNTIL THE” LAST. FEW YEARS WHEN HE CENTERED HIS ACTIVITIES ON THE CAROUSEL AND VEGAS NIGHTCLUBS. THE CAROUSEL IS A DOWNTOWN STRIP-TEASE AND “BURLESQUE HOUSE$ THE VEGAS IS A DANCE HALL ON THE OUTSKIRTS ~ OF THE CITY. . RUBY'S ASSOCIATES SAID THEY HAD. NO WARNING THAT HE WOULD TAKE “MATTERS INTO HIS OWN HANDS AND SHOOT OSWALD AS HE WAS BEING TRANSFERRED FROM THE CITY TO THE COUNTY JAIL. THEY SAID HE EXHIBITED EXTREME FEELING AND CONCERN OVER THE. SLAYING OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND ANNOUNCED THE CLOSING OF HIS CLUBS FROM FRIDAY NIGHT UNTIL NEXT TUESDAY. > RUBY WAS WELL KNOWN ALONG THE DOWNTOWN NIGHT LIFE STREETS AND WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH POLICE OFFICERS WHO PATROLED ‘THE AREA. - RD159PCS11724 , UPR8&2 - (ROGIMATE=-VITH OSWALD) — , | , ~ (DALLAS )-=-JACK RUBY? S ROOMMATE LAST SAW HIM TODAY WHEN RUBY. LEFT TO TAKE ONE OF HIS FOUR DOGS FOR A WALK« : RUBY IS ACCUSED OF SLAYING PRESIDENT KENNEDY" S ASS SSASSIN-=-LEE HARVEY OSWALD. | od : GEORGE SENATOR, RUBY'S ROCNMATE, SAID THE LAST THING RUBY. SAID WAS: "THAT POOR FAMILY." | , wee SENATOR, WHO LIVES WITH RUBY IN OAK CLIFF, SAID RUBY LEFT WITH. HIS DOG "SHEEBA." SENATOR SAID HE KNEW RUBY HAD. A PISTOL, BUT DID NOT KNOW WHETHER HE TOOK IT ALONG WITH HIM WHEN HE LEFT. | SENATOR SAID RUBY TOLD. HIM HE BOUGHT THE GUN FOR PROTECTION. SENATOR SAID HE HAD LIVED WITH RUBY FOR EIGHT YEARS AND) DESCRIBED RUBY AS "A NICE MAN AND A GOOD ROOMMATE." HE SAID RUBY HAS TWO SISTERS---ONE IN EITHER SAN. FRAR ICISCO OR. CHICAGO--AND ONE IN DALLAS. | , ae SENATOR SAID HE FELT RUBY WAS "IN A STATE OF oe SHOOTING OF, THE PRESIDENT. ° , rae RD&S2O02PCS 11/24 FB NTL 32 WASH REDSKINS 10 PHA EGALES 0.. UPRS3 TENTH WORLD IN- BRIEF 7 7 nWS FROM UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL G E N T (DALLAS )---POLICE CHIEF JESSE CURRY OF DALLAS SAYS JACK RUBY WILL BE CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF LEE OSWALD, THE ACCUSED ASSASSIN OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY. CURRY SAYS RUBY'S LAST NAME IS REALLY "RUBENSTEIN," BUT THAT HE USES RUBY. CURRY WOULD NOT COMMENT FURTHER ON OSWALD'S KILLING. -39- (DALLAS) ---THE MAN ACCUSED OF ASSASSINATING PRESIDENT KENNEDY IS DEAD. : LEE HARVEY OSWALD WAS SHOT AT POINT BLANK RANGE AS HE WAS BEING (LED THROUGH A BASEMENT CORRIDOR OF THE DALLAS CITY JAIL FOR TRANSFER TO THE COUNTY JAIL. HE DIED IN A HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM TEN FEET FROM WHERE THE PRESIDENT DIED LAST FRIDAY. UPR87 , | MORE TENTH WORLD IN BRIEF. xxx CORRIDOR, | (MASHINGTON)==-dOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY HAS LEFT THE WHITE MOUSE. THE BODY OF THE MURDERED PRESIDENT WAS CARRIED IN A SORROWFUL CORTEGE THROUGH THE STREETS OF WASHINGTON TO THE CAPITOL WHERE HE WILL LIE IN STATE UNTIL TOMORROW, : | MILITARY PALL BEARERS BORE THE CASKET FROM THE VHITE HOUSE AND PLACED IT ON A BLACK-DRAPED CAISSON DRAWN BY SIX WHITE HORSES. THEN THE WIDOWED FIRST LADY AND HER TWO CHILDREN, CARCLINE AND JOHN. - QUNIOR, GOT INTO A LIMOUSINE WHICH FOLLOWED HER HUSBAND'S BODY. HER BROTHER-IN-LAW, ATTORNEY GENERAL ROBERT KENNEDY, RODE WITH THE GRIEVING FIRST FAMILY, MUFFLED DRUMS THROBBED AS THE CORTEGE MADE ITS WAY ALONG THE NEARLY TWO-MILE ROUTE TO THE CAPITOL. A SOLEMN CROWD OF . THCUSANDS---SOME OF THEM WITH TEARS STREAMING DOWN THEIR FACES--- LINED THE STREETS OF WASHINGTON TO PAY RESPECT TO THE: 46-YEAR-OLD CHIEF EXECUTIVE. | | , , A GRAY HoRs E---SADDLED BUT WITH No RIDER-==FOLLOWED THE CAISSON BEARING THE PRESIDENT. BOOTS VERE PLACED BACKWARDS IN THE STIRRUPS, A SYMBOL THAT A GREAT: WARRIOR---THE NATION'S COMMANDER-IN- ~CHIEF--- | ‘IS DEAD. , | AT THE CAPITOL, A 21-CUN SALUTE HONORED THE SLAIN PRES IDENTM THE AIR FORCE BAND PLAYED "HAIL TO THE CHIEF." THE CASKET-=-DRA PED BY AN AMERICAN FLAG---WAS CARRIED UP THE CAPITOL STEPS OVER THE? SPOT WHERE MR. KENNEDY TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE LESS THAN THREE YEARS | AGO. } age | | pate THE BODY WILL REST IN THE CAPITOL ROTUNDA UNTIL FUNERAL “SERVICES ARE HELD TOMORROW. . PRESIDENT KENNEDY WILL PE BURIED IN- _. ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY. WHICH. OVERLOOKS THE NATION'S CAPITOL. oe TRAGEDY. HERE, IS) ‘ITS. MEANING. ys UPRES” . “CED ITORS§ oA CAISSON ROLLED SLOWLY THROUGH WASHINGTON TODAY. IN A PARADE, =~ ~s VE Apr,” 5 . “Nf a rt i oitiahacreat nt) — eg (CATSSON-=-WITH KENNEDY) ~ (WASHINGTON) =--THE BLACK-DRAPED CAISSON THAT CARRIED SLAIN | "PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S BODY FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TO THE CAPITOL TODAY WAS THE’SAME ONE THAT HELD THE BODY OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT 18 YEARS. AGO. THE CAISSON, ONE OF TWO MAINTAINED BY THE ARMY'S: CEREMONIAL FIRST BATTALION, 3RD INFANTRY REGIMENT AT FORT MYER, VIRGINIA, ALSO WAS USED IN THE BURIAL CEREMONIES OF THE TWO UNKNOWNS OF WORLD WAR “TWO AND KOREA. IT YAS BUILT SOMETIME DURING OR PERHAPS EVEN BEFORE WORLD WAR CNE, AT A TIME,WHEN. CAISSONS WERE A VITAL PART OF CAVALRY AND ARTILLERY WARFARE. | THE CAUSSOM WAS DRAWN BY SIX GRAY HORSES---THREE OF THEM WITH RIDERS---AND LED BY. THE SECTICN LEADER MOUNTED ON A SEVENTH HORSE. IT WAS FOLLOWD BY A RIDERLESS BLACK HORSE, WITH CAVALRY BOOTS REVERSED IN THE STIRRUPS AND A SHEATHED SABER SUSPENDED FROM THE SNAPRYLELACK KDNSEDVASCHDFTEN EXSEB DINCHPL KEENER YOGNTEBRERISSON , THE MRS KENNEDY LEANED SLICHTLY TOWARD CAROLINE TO EXPLAIN THE TRADITION OF THE RIDERLESS MOUNT. LITTLE JOHN JUNIOR POINTED AT THE HORSE IN YOUTHFUL ADMIRAM RSHITSNG UPRSO _-: URGENT | (NEW YORK CITY)---KEITH FUNSTON PRESIDENT OF THE NEW YORK STOCK: EXCHANGE EXPLAINED THAT THE ACTION TO CLOSE THE EXCHANGE WAS. TAKEN =< BECAUSE OF .THE es Ear ne HEAVY FLOOD OF ORDERS WHICH: CANE TO THE FLOOR MOMENTS AFTER THE ANNCUNCEMENT OF THE ATTEMPT ON THE PRESIDENT'S LIFE. WHEN THE STOCK EXCHANGE GOVERNORS HALTED TRADING THE. STOCK TAPE ee ee ee VAS'20°MINUTES BEHIND THE TRADING ON THE FLOOR. 1 4 Cae 4 a, ; oo . | a. “ eee . FK125P11/22CST .. OO. A A : UPR9 1 URGENT (DALLAS )---A FATHER HUBER, OF HOLY TRINITY CHURCH IN DALLAS: ADMINISTERED THE LAST SACRAMENT OF THE CHURCH TO THE PRESIDENT. THE SACRAMENT WAS ADMINISTERED SHORTLY BEFORE 2 PeM. EST. _- ANOTHER PRIEST, WHO DECLINED TO GIVE HIS NAME, SAID THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE STILL WAS ALIVE AT THE TIME. UPR102 (WANSFIELD -- WITH CEREMONY) ‘SENATE EMOCRATIC MAJORITY LEADER MIKE MANSFIELD WAS THE FIRST OF THREE SPEAKERS WHO ADDRESSED THE GATNERING IN THE CAPITOL ROTUNDA AFTER THE BODY OF THE LATE PRESIDENT JOHN KENNEDY HAD “EN PLACED IN STATE THERE. THIS IS HIS ELOQUENT TRIBUTE TO THE SLAIN CHIEF EXECUTIVE: MTHERE WAS THE SOUND OF LAUGHTER AND, IN & MOMENT, IT WAS NO MORE. AND, SO, SHE TOOK A RING FROM HER FINGER AND PLACED IT IN HIS HANDS. | 3 "THERE WAS A WIT IN A MAN NEITHER YOUNG NOR OLD; BUT A WIT- FULL OF AN OLD MAN'S WISDOM AND OF A CHILD'S WISDOM AND, THEN; IN A MOMENT IT WAS NO MORE. "AND, SOQ SHE TOOK A RING FROM HER A a wy, ee FINGER AND PLACED IT IN HIS HANDS. “THERE WAS A MAN MARKED WITH THE SCARS OF HIS LOVE OF COUNTRY, A BODY ACTIVE WITH THE SURGE OF A LIFE FAR, FAR FROM SPENT AND, IN A MOMENT, IT WAS NO MORE. AND, SO SHE TOOK A | RING FROM HER FINGER AND PLACED IT IN HIS HANDS. | WTHERE WAS A FATHER WITH A LITTLE BOY AND A LITTLE GIRL WD THE JOY OF EACH IN THE OTHER AND, IN A MOMENT, IT WAS NO MORE. AND SO, SHE TOOK A RING FROM HER FINGER AND PLACED IT IN HIS HANDS. | | "THERE WAS A HUSBAND WHO ASKED MUCH AND GAVE WucH AND, OUT OW THE GIVING AND THE ASKING, WOVE WITH A WOMAN WHAT COULD NOT ‘BE BROKEN IN LIFE AND, IN A MOMENT, IT WAS NO MORE. SHE TOOK A RING FROM HER FINGER AND PLACED IT IN HIS HANDS, Ai) KISSED HIM, AND CLOSED THE LID OF A COFFIN. "§ PIECE OF EACH OF US DIED AT THAT MOMENT. YET, IN DEATH HE GAVE OF HIMSELF TO US.. HE CAVE US OF A GOOD HEART FROM UHICH THE LAUGHTER CAME. HE GAVE US OF A PROFOUND WIT, FRO WHICH A GREAT LEADERSHIP EMERGED. WE GAVE US OF A KINDNESS AND A STRENGTH FUSED INTO THE HUMAN COURAGE TO SEEK PEACE “WITHOUT FEAR. "HE GAVE US OF HIS LIVE THAT WE, TCO, IN TURN, MIGHT GIVE, HE.GAVE THAT WE MIGHT GIVE OF OURSELVES ‘THAT. WE MIGHT GIVE TO ONE ANOTHER UNTIL THERE WOULD BE NO ROOM, NO ROOM AT ALL, FOR THE BIGOTRY, THE HATRED, PREJUDICE AND -THE ARROGANCE “WHICH CONVERTED IN THAT MOMENT OF HORROR TO STRIKE HIM DOWN. “IN LEAVING US ---THESE GIFTS, JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, LEAVES WITH US. WILL WE TAKE THEM, MR. PRESIDENT? WILL WE HAVE, NOW THE SENSE AND THE RESPONSIBILITY AND THE COURAGE TO TAKE THEM? Ny PRAY TO GOD THAT WE WILL." SPOKE "SENATOR MIKE MANSFIELD OF MONTANA. » MAJORITY LEADER OF VR4Z4PCS11/24 © Ss AGE 46. UPI /CHICACO A153PCD11/22 UPR105 | (SOVIET REACTION) | | (MOSCOW) --- MOSCOW RADIO'S COMMENTATOR, IN MOURNFUL TONES, HAS ANNOUNCED THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY. HE TOLD RUSSIANS---"IT IS SAID HE HAS BEEN MURDERED BY THE EXTREME RIGHT WING ELEMENTS." A154PCD11/22 UPR106 eta oe | MORE SUNDAY SHOW XXX J.F.K." (RELIGION TODAY) | | | ; -O- THE LATE PRESIDENT KENNEDY WAS BURIED LESS THAN A WEEK AGO. HIS "BRAVE WIFE AND FAMILY TOOK THE GRIEF WITH MUCH’ COURAGE AND STRENGTH. RICHARD CARDINAL CUSHING OF BOSTON---A LONG-TIME FRIEND OF THE KENNEDY FAMILY---EXPRESSED HIS IMPRESSIONS OF THE FAMILY TO UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL. , | CARDINAL CUSHING...IN A DEEP PERSONAL TRIBUTE TO THE ASSASSINATED - PRESIDENT AND HIS FAMILY ON THANKSGIVING DAY...CALLED FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NATIONAL SHRINE IN BOSTON FOR THE LATE PRESIDENT KENNEDY. HE- SAID MR. KENNEDY WAS "A MAN MISUNDERSTOOD BY MANY." “HE SAID "JACK KENNEDY HAD HIS ‘PAINS, HIS ACHES, HIS WORRIES, PHYCAL AND MENTAL, THAT NO ONE KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT." RECALLING ANOTHER TRAGEDY IN. THE KENNEDY FAMILY, THE CARDINAL SAID "I WILL NEVER FORGET THE DAY WE BURIED THE LITTLE CHILD, PATRICK BOUVIER (BOOV-YAY') KENNEDY. JACK WAS THE LAST TO LAVE THE . CHAPEL. «HE PUT HIS ARMS AROUND THE CASKET AS IF HE WANTED TO CARRY IT WITH HIM. THEN THE TEARS WATERED: HIS CHEEKS." : CARDINAL CUSHING---WHO MARRIED THE PRESIDENT AND JACQUELINE=-- “BRUSHED TEARS BACK FROM HIS EYES SEVERAL TIMES WHEN HE SPOKE OF THE LATE PRESIDENT'S WIFE. | | | . HE SAID "I HAVE NEVER SEEN COURAGE IN-A MAN OR WOMAN TO MATCH HERS." THE CARDINAL CONTINUED..."THERE IS A STORY IN THE BIBLE. CONCERNING A VALIANT WOMAN, THAT VALIANT WOMAN IN THE BIBLICAL NARRATIVE WAS REPRODUCED IN THE 20TH CENTURY BY JACQUELINE, KENNEDY" IN .THE CARDINAL'S WORDS---"FEW WOMEN IN ALL HISTORY. HAVE 7 EXPERIENCED WHAT SHE HAD, THE PRESIDENT FELL INTO HER LAP AND DIED«c. A BULLET THROUGH HIS BRAIN. I CAN'T RECALL ANYWHERE IN HISTORY WHERE. ANY WOMAN WAS IN A SIMILAR SITUATION." CARDINAL CUSHING SHARED ANOTHER EXPERIENCE WITH THE PUBLIC WHEN HE QUOTED MRS. KENNEDY AS SAYING "THANKS FOR CALLING HIM (THE PRESIDENT) DEAR JACK." THIS, THE FORMER FIRST LADY SAID, AS THE CARDINAL KISSED LITTLE CAROLINE ON THE WAY OUT OF THE CATHEDRAL. THE CLERGYMAN SAID "THERE WERE NO TEARS, THAT'S ALL SHE COULD SAY: "THANKS FOR CALLING HIM DEAR JACK," WHILE OTHERS WERE SALUTING HIM FOR- HIS. VIGOR AND COURAGE." , COMMENTING ON THE STRENGTH SHOWN BY THE LATE .PRESIDENT'S PARENTS, THE CARDINAL SAID "HIS MOTHER WAS WEEPING AS ONLY A MOTHER COULD WEEP." HE EXPLAINED THAT MRS. ROSE KENNEDY IS A VERY | RELIGIOUS WOMAN..."SHE GOES TO TWO MASSES EVERY DAY." HE SAID "EVEN DURING WHAT WAS PROBABLY THE MOST. SORROWFUL MOMENT OF HER LIFE SHE STAYED IN THE BACKGROUND .” coe ~~ UPR107 U R GENT (WASHINGTON) ==THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT TODAY AUTHORIZED ALL NATIONAL BANKING ASSOCIATIONS TO REMAIN CLOSED TOMORROW DURING THE NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING PROCLAIMED BY PRESIDENT 7 JOHNSON FOR THE LATE PRESIDENT KENNEDY. AMES SAXON, COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY, SAID THE AUTHORITY ALSO APPLIED TO ALL BANKS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. ID THE AUTHORIZATICN FOR THE NATIONAL BANKING. SECRETARY DOUGLAS. ITLLONs SIMILARLY, THE FEDDRAL HOME LOAN BANK BOARD URGED ALL LOAN ASSOCIATIONS TO OBSERVE THE NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING AND TO REMAIN CLOSED THROUGHOUT. MONDAY. THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (SEC) SAID THAT IM VIEW OF THE DECISION CY THE STOCK EXCHANGES TO REMAIN CLOSED TOMORROW, "WE ASK THAT.THERE BE NO. TRADING IN. OVER-THE- COUNTER MARKETS." | | . SR516PCS 11/24 UPR107 (WASHINGTON )---JOUN KENNEDY WILL RECEIVE A HERO'S BURIAL, ‘MONDAY AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY IN VIRGINIA. BURIAL f . WILL FOLLOW A SOLEMN PONTIFICAL REQUIEM MASS AT NOON (EST) G 504PCST 11/23 © -UPR110 ASSASSINATIONS - WITH SHOOTING) ‘CWASHINGTON)---THREE OF AMERICA’S LAST FOUR PRESIDENT'S HAVE FACED BULLETS OF AN ASSASSIN. OF THE NATION'S 34 PRESIDENTS, THREE HAVE BEEN SLAIN IN OFFICE. , | ON NOVEMBER 1ST, 1950, TWO PUERTO RICANS TRIED TO SHOOT THEIR © WAY INTO BLAIR HOUSE, ACROSS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, WHERE PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN WAS THEN STAYING. ONE GUNMAN WAS KILLED, THE OTHER IS SERVING A LIFE TERM. a ON FEBRUARY 15TH, 1933, ANARCHIST JOSEPH ZANGARA SHOT AT PRESIDENT-ELECT FRANKLIN D. 2U.SEVELT IN MIGHT. THE SULLET WSL Tb AISEVELT BUT FATALLY WOUNDED MAYOR ANTON J. CERMAK OF CHICAGO. | | | TODAY CAME THE SHOTS AT PRESIDENT KENNEDY. OF THE LAST FOUR MEN ELECTED TO THE WHITE HOUSE, ONLY DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER SAY NO ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE. , , | THE PRESIDENTS KILLED BY AN ASSASSIN WERE ABRAHAM LINCOLN, JAMES Ay GARFIELD AND WILLIAM MCKINLEY. | 7 | SR201PC S$ 11/22 UPRI 14. pee | (TIMETABLE - WITH FUNERAL) | | | (YASHINGTON)=-THE TIMETABLE FOR THE KENNEDY FUNERAL TOMORROW (ALL TIMES E-S-T): , 9 TO 10 Ae! -- FINAL PUBLIC VIEWING OF THE CASKEKT AS IT LIES IN STATE IN THE CAPITCL ROTUNDA. , 10245 AeM <= MRS. JACQUELINE KENNEDY DEPARTS WHITE HOUSE FOR CAPITOL. O21 A-M => FUNERAL PROCESSION. DEPARTS CAPITOL’FOR WHITE HOUSE, WHERE MRS. KENNEDY AND SELECT GROUP OF DIGNITARIES LEAVE LIMOUSINES AND WALK BEHIND CASKET-BEARING: CAISSON TO _ ST. MATTHEWS CATHEDRAL, MORE THAN HALF MILE AWAY. NOON == PONTIFICAL REQUIEM MASS CELEBRATED BY RICHARD CARDINAL CUSHING, ARCHBISHOP. OF BOSTON. FOLLOWING THIS, THE CORTEGE PROCEEDS BY CAR TO ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY FOR BURIAL. a } 3 TO 3:30 Po (APPROXIMATE) -- MRS. KENNEDY AT WHITE HOUSE’ |. RECEIVES VISITING HEADS: OF . STATE AND HEADS OF FOREIGN DELEGATIONS TO-FUNERAL. 5230 Pel ~- PRESIDENT JOHNSON RECEIVES CHIEFS OF STATE AND CHIEFS OF FOREIGN v DELEGATIONS AT DIPLOMATIC RECEPTION ROOM ! STATE DEPARTHENT. , “SR5SSPCS 11/24 UPR116 (EDITORS $ FOLLOWING IS THE EULOGY GIVEN BY CHIEF JUSTICE EARL WARREN AT THE CAPITOL TODAY. WE ALSO CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO UPR102, THE REMARKS OF SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MIKE MANSFIELD.) -0- MTHERE ARE FEW‘EVENTS IN OUR NATIONAL LIFE THAT UNITE AMERICANS AND SO TOUCH THE HEART CF ALL OF US AS THE PASSING OF A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THERE IS NOTHING THAT ADDS SHOCK TO OUR SADNESS AS THE , ASSASSINATI N OF OUR LEADER, CHOSEN AS HE IS TO EMBODY THE IDEALS OF CUR PEOPLE, TIE FAITH VE HAVE IN OUR INSTITUTIONS AND OUR BELIEF IN THE FATHERHOOD OF GOD AND THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN, "SUCH MISFORTUNES HAVE BEFALLEN THE NATION CN OTHER OCCASIONS, BUT NEVER MORE SHOCKINGLY THAN TWO DAYS AGO. MWE ARE SADDENED; WE ARE STUNNED$ WE ARE PERLEXED. "JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, A CREAT AND GOOD PRESIDENT---THE FRIEND OF ALL MEN CF COODWILL---A BELIEVER IN THE DIGNITY AND EQUALITY OF ALL | WUMAN BEINGS; A FICHTER FOR JUSTICE; AN APOSTLE OF PEACE HAS BEEN SNATCHED FROM OUR MIDST BY THE BULLET OF AN ASSASSIN. | | "WHAT MOVED SOME MISGUIDED WRETCH TO DO THIS HORRIBLE DEED MAY NEVER BE KNOWN TO US, BUT WE DO KNOW THAT SUCH ACTS ARE COMMONLY STIMULATED BY FORCES OF HATRED AND MALVOLENCE, SUCH AS TODAY, ARE “EATING THEIR WAY INTO THE BLOODSTREAM CF AMERICAN LIFE« / “WHAT A PRICE WE PAY FOR THIS FANATICISM! , IT WAS BEEN SAID THAT THE ONLY THING WE LEARN FROM HISTORY IS YE DO NOT LEARN. - , | "BUT SURELY WE CAN LEARN IF WE HAVE THE WILL TO DO SO. SURELY THERE IS A LESSON TO BE LEARNED FROM THIS TRAGIC EVENT. , we IF WE REALLY LOVE THIS COUNTRY$ IF WE TRULY LOVE JUSTICE AND MERCY} IF WE FERVENTLY WANT TO MAKE THIS NATION BETTER FOR THOSE Wil0 ARE TO FOLLOW US, WE CAN AT LEAST ABJURE.THE HATRED THAT CONSUMES PEOPLE, THE FALSE ACCUSATIONS THAT DIVIDE US AND THE BITTERNESS THAT BEGETS VIOLENCE. . "IS IT TOO MUCH TO HOPE THAT THE MARTYRDOM OF OUR BELOVED PRESIDENT MIGHT EVEN SOFTEN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO WOULD THEMSELVES RECOIL FROM. ASSASSINATION, BUT WHC DO NOT SHRINK FROM SPREADING THE VENOM WHICH KINDLES THOUGHTS OF IT IN OTHERS? | “OUR NATION IS BEREAVED. THE WHOLE WORLD IS POORER BECAUSE OF HIS LOSS, BUT WE CAN ALL BE BETTER AMERICANS BECAUSE JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY HAS PASSED OUR WAY} BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN OUR CHOSEN LEADER AT A “TIME IN HISTORY: WHEN HIS CHARACTER, HIS VISION AND HIS QUIET COURAGE WAVE ENABLED HIM TO CHART FOR US A SAFE COURSE THROUGH THE SHOALS OF TREACHEROUS SEAS THAT ENCOMPASS THE WORLD. ; "AND NOW THAT HE IS RELIEVED OF THE ALMOST SUPER HUMAN.BURDENS WE IMPOSED ON HIM, MAY HE REST IN PEACE." UPR116. | (DIGNITARIES=---WITH KENNEDY) | (EDITORS! FOLLOWING IS A PARTIAL LIST OF THOSE FOREIGN | DIGNITARIES PLANNING TO ATTEND THE MONDAY SERVICES IN WASHINGTON. If WILL BE ADDED TO AS NEEDED.) | -0- GREAT BRITAIN SIR ALEC-DOUGLAS HOME _ PRIME MINISTER PRINCE PHILIP. “HUSBAND OF THE QUEEN HAROLD WILSON : | HEAD OF LABOUR PARTY FRANCE CHARLES DE CAULLE PRESIDENT : MAURICE COUVE DE MURVILLE | ‘FOREIGN MINISTER GEN. CHARLES AILLERET ' DEFENSE CHIEF WEST GERMANY LUDWIG ERHARD ee ‘CHANCELLOR | WILLY BRANDT MAYOR OF BERLIN nn om ee —- an <-~ ree coge - kiss - cme pe ee ne ee er ee ANASTAS. MIKOYAN FIRST DEPUTY PREMIER SOVIET UNION a MOROCCO PRINCE MOULAY ABDALLAH . BROTHER OF KING HASSAN GREECE QUEEN .FREDERIKA$ ALSO THE VICE PREMIER AND FOREIGN MINISTER. se NO NV TURKEY ISMET INONU PREMIER IRELAND ; EAMON DE VALERA PRESIDENT FRANK AIKEN | FOREIGN MINISTER JAPAN HYATO IKEDA PRIME MINISTER “CROWN PRINCE AKAHITO BELG IUii KING BAUDOUIN NETHERLANDS CROWN PRINCESS BEATRIX 4 CANADA LESTER PEARSON PRIME MINISTER (MORE LATER) W617PCS11/23 | -UPR118 pies Pa TWELFTH WORLD IN BRIEF . 7 O- LATE NEWS FROM UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL? (WASHINGTON)=--THE LATE PRESIDENT KENNEDY WILL BE BURIED MONDAY IN ARLINGT tt NATIONAL CEMETERY---A SHRINE RESERVED FOR THE , NATION'S HEROES. | ; | | THE KENNEDY FAMILY DECIDED THIS AFTERNOON ON INTERMENT IN THE NATIONAL CEMETERY IN VIRGINIA JUST ACROSS THE POTOMAC RIVER FROM THE CAPITAL, WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT IS THE ONLY OTHER PRESIDENT BURIED THERE. _ "PINAL RITES FOR THE ASSASSINATED PRESIDENT WILL BE CELEBRATED “IN A PONTIFICAL REQUIEM MASS AT ST. MATTHEW'S CATHEDRAL IN DOWNTOWN WASHINGTON, THERE HAD BEEN SPECULATION THE BODY WOULD “BE PLACED ALONGSIDE PATRICK BOUVIER (BOO-VYAY) KENNEDY, THE FIRST FAMILY'S INFANT SON WHO DIED SOON AFTER BIRTH EARLIER THIS YEAR 3 , , -o- (DUBLIN) <--IT WAS ANNOUNCED TONIGHT THAT MRS. JACQUELINE KENNEDY HAS REQUESTED A CONTINGENT OF THE IRISH ARMY, BE PRESENT AT HER HUSBAND'S FUNERAL. THE DUBLIN ANNOUNCEMENT SAID A PARTY OF 30 CADETS WILL FLY TO NEW YORK CITY TOMORROW ON THE SAME PLANE WITH THE IRISH PRESIDENT AND HIS PARTY. | corte! (DALLAS )-=--POLICE IN DALLAS SAY LEE HARVEY OSWALD KILLED PRESIDENT KENNEDY. THE POLICE SAY FLATLY THEY HAVE EVIDENCE TO PROVE THE 24-YEAR=OLD MARXIST WAS THE ONE WHO SHOT MR. KENNEDY IN DALLAS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. ACCORDING TO THE POLICE, OSWALD HAD NO ACCOMPLICES. CAPTAIN WILL FRITZ, DALLAS* HOMICIDE CHIEF, SAYS---"THIS CASE IS CINCHED." | OSWALD---WHO ONCE DEFECTED BEHIND THE TRON CURTAIN=~-DENIES HE HAD ANYTHING To DO WITH THE PRESIDENT'S ASSASSINATION. HE HAS REFUSED TO TAKE A LIE DETECTOR TEST. PARAFFIN TESTS SHOW HE FIRED A WEAPON SHORTLY BEFORE WE WAS CAPTURED YESTERDAY. GUNPOWDER TRACES APPEAR ON BOTH HANDS WHICH “WOULD INDICATE HE FIRED A RIFLE*--THE TYPE OF WEAPON WHICH KILLED THE PRESIDENT. | OSWALD HAS DEMANDED THAT JOHN ABT---A NEW YORK CITY LAWYER ASSOCIATED WITH COMMUNIST CAUSES---DEFEND HIM. HIS CASE IS FXPECTED TO GO BEFORE A GRAND JURY EITHER NEXT WEDNESDAY OR THE FOLLOWING MONDAY. THE DALLAS COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY, HENRY WADE, EXPECTS’ OSWALD'S TRIAL TO BEGIN IN JANUARY. WADE SAYS HE WILL PROSECUTE OSWALD HIMSELF. | THE PENALTY, IF OSWALD. IS CONVICTED, IS DEATH. WADE HAS NEVER LOST A CAPITAL CASE. OSWALD HAD TWO VISITORS TODAY AT THE DALLAS CITY JAIL---HIS MOTHER AND-HIS RUSSIAN WIFE. MRS. MARGUERITE OSWALD SAYS. HER SON HAD MELPED HER WHILE-HE WAS YOUNGER AND SHE DOESN'T BELIEVE THE CHARGES. | | UPR125 : (EDITORS: FOLLOWING ARE THE “KEMARKS OF SPEAKER OF THE NOUSE JOHN MCCORMACK, THIRD AND FINAL SPEAKER IN THE CAPITOL TODAY. THE WLOGIES OF SENATE LEADER MIKE MANSFIELD WERE CARRIED AS UPR102;_ THOSE OF CHIEF JUSTICE EARL WARREN.AS UPR116.) 4 | 0+ "ANY CITIZEN OF OUR BELOVED COUNTRY WHO LOOKS BACK OVER ITS HISTORY CANNOT FAIL TO SEE THAT WE HAVE BEEN BLESSED WITH GOD'S FAVOR BEYOND MOST OTHER PEOPLES "AS WE GATHER HERE TODAY, BOWED IN BRIEF, “THE HEARTFELT SYMPATHY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CONGRESS AND OF OUR PEOPLE ARE EXTENDED TO MRS. JACQUELINE KENNEDY AND TO AMBASSADOR AND MRS. JOSEPH P. KENNEDY AnD THEIR LOVED ONES, THEIR DEEP GRIEF IS ALSO SELF=SHARED BY COUNTLESS MILLIONS OF PERSONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD; CONSIDERED A PERSONAL , TRAGEDY, .AS IF ONE HAD LOST.A LOVED MEMBER OF HIS OUN IMMEDIATE FAMILY, , os ae "AT EACH GREAT CRISIS IN OUR HISTORY, WE HAVE FOUND A LEADER ABLE To GRASP ‘THE HELM OF STATE AND GUIDE THE COUNTRY THROUGH THE OUBLES WHICH BESET IT. "IN OUR EARLIEST DAYS WHEN OUR STRENGTH AND WEALTH WERE SO LIMITED -AND OUR PROBLEMS SO GREAT, WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON APPEARED TO LEAD OUR PEOPLES | | oes | "TWO GENERATIONS LATER, WHEN OUR COUNTRY WAS TORN IN TWOCIN FRATRICIDAL WAR, ABRAHAM LINCOLN APPEARED FROM THE MASS OF THE PEOPLE AS A LEADER ABLE TO REUNITED THE NATION. . . "IN MORE RECENT TIMES IN THE CRITICAL DAYS OF THE DEPRESSION AND THE GREAT WARS FORCED UPON US BY FASCIST AGCRESSION,-FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT APPEARED ON THE SCENE TO REORGANIZE THE. COUNTRY AND LEAD ‘ITS REVIVED CITIZENS TO VICTORY. FINALLY, ONLY RECENTLY WHEN THE COLD WAR WAS BUILDING UP TO THE SUPREME CRISIS OF A THREATENED © NUCLEAR WAS CAPABLE OF DESTROYING EVERYTHIN iC THAT OUR PREDECE ESSORS HAD SO CAREFULLY BUILT} ONCE AGAIN f STRONG AND COUR AGEOUS , NAN APPEARED READY, TO LEAD US, 9 i "NO COUNTRY NEED FEAR SO LONG AS GOD IN HIS INFINITE GOODNESS. CONTINUES To PROVIDE THE NATION WITH LEADERS ABLE TO GUIDE. IT THROUGH oe THE SUCCESSIVE CRISES UHICH: SEEM-TO BE. THE INEVITABLE FATE OF ANY GREAT. NATION. , "SURELY NO COUNTRY EVER FACED MORE GIGANTIC PROBLEMS. THAN OURS. ~ IN THE LAST FEW YEARS , AND SURELY NO COUNTRY COULD HAVE OBTAINED A MORE ABLE LEADER IN A Titik Or SUCH CRISIS. PRESIDENT JOHN. F. KENNEDY CONFIDENCE, HUMAN SYMPATHY, Ai BROAY ViS40N WHICH RECOGNIV=) THE TRUE VALUES 0? ORES hi, “QUALITY # ND BROTHERHOOD WHICH HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE WARKS OF THE Aza Ca POLLIACAL DkEAM. WAE HAD THE DAAVERY AND SENSE OF PERSONAL DUTY WHICH MADE HIM WILLING. TO FACE UP TO THE GREAT TASKS OF BEING PRESIDENT IN THESE TRYING TIMES. HE HAD THE WARMTH AND SENSE OF HUMOR VHICH MADE THE BURDEN OF THE TASK BEARABLE FOR HIMSELF AND iS AsDUCiAT ED AND: GiGi WADE ALL KINDS OF DIVERSE PEOPLES AND AND RACES EAGER TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH HIN IN HIS TASK. HE HAD THE TENACITY AnD. dic DETIAUINATION TO CARRY EACH STAGE OF HIS GREAT WORK THROUGH TO ITS SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION, es oy "NOW THAT OUR GREAT LEADER, HAS BEEN TAKE! FROM US IN’A CRUVL DEATH, WE ARE BOUND TO FEEL SHATTERED AND HELPLESS IN THE FACE OF UR LOSS. THIS IS BUT NATURAL. BUT AS THE FIRST BITTER PAR ICS OF CUR INCRESULOUS GRIEF BEGAN TO PASS, WE MUST THANK GOD THAT WE WERE PRIVILEGED, HOWEVER SRIEFLY, TO WAVE HAD THIS GREAT “AN FOR — CUR PRESIDENT. FOR HE HAS NOW TAKEN HIS PLACE AMCNG THE GREAT , FIGURES OF WORLD HISTORY, : "WILE THIS IS AN-OCCASION OF DEEP SORROW, IT SHOULD ALSO BE ONE OF DEDICATION. WE HUST HA Ie THE DETERMINATICN TO UNITE AND CARRY ON THE SPIRIT OF JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY FOR A STRENGTHENED “AMERICA AND FOR A FUTURE WORLD OF PEACE." ) (END FULOGIES) , 'S728PCS 11/24 UPR125 HEADLINES . a . THE PHOTOXRAPHS--BELIEVED TO\BE TRANSPARENCIES\OR "SLIDKS"--- WERE FOUND IN ROOM OF OSWALD*S \APARTMENT IN IRVING, A DAL AS” SUBURB. THEY sh WED THE SUSPECT HOLDING THE RIFLE AND WITH HANDGUN STRAPPED TO HIS WAIST. -0- THE LATE PRESIDENT KENNEDY IS TO BE GIVEN A MILITARY'S HERO'S BURIAL-MONDAY IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, ACROSS THE POTOMAC ‘FROM WASHINGTON. = PRESIDENT JOHNSON WILL ADDRESS A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS WEDNESDAY AT 12230 P-M EST. ~ SR7I9PCS 11/23 | UPR124 - MORE THIRTEENTH WORLD IN BBRIEF X X X POLICEMAN. MORE SUB PHOTOS BULLETIN) THE PICTURE S WERE FOUND IN A ROOM OF OSWALD'S APARTMENT IN IRVING, TEXAS, OUTSIDE DALLAS. PHOTOS SHOW MIM WITH THE SIDEARM STRAPPED ON HIS BELT AND THE RIFLE IN HIS HAND. IN ADDITION, POLICE CHIEF JESSE CURRY SAID THE F-B-I REPORTS OSWALD PURCHASED THE -ITALIAN-MADE 6.5-CARCANO BOLT-ACTION RIFLE WITH TELESCOPIC SIGHT FROM A CHICAGO MAIL-ORDER HOUSE FOR 12-DOLLARS AND 78 CENTS. MORE SR715PCS 11/22 UPR126 U R G E-N T- (WITH SUSPECT) (DALLAS) =--AUTHORITIES REPORT 24-YEAR-OLD LEE OSWALD WAS THE PICTURE OF CONFIDENCE WHEN OFFICERS WENT TO SHOW HIM THE PICTURES OF HIM HOLDING A RIFLE. WHEN THEY LEFT AFTERWARD, IT IS REPORTED, HE LOOKED FRIGHTENED. SR720PCS 11/23 Lf Pa , UPR127 A MORE THIRTEENTH WORLD IN BRIEF xXX 78 CENTS. (WASH INGTON )--JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY WILL RECEIVE A HERO'S BURIAL MONDAY IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, JUST ACROSS THE POTOMAC RIVER FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE NATION'S ARMED FORCES, THE PRES IDENT HAD ABUNDANT RIGHT TO A GRAVE IN THE HONORED MILITARY CEMETERY. BUT HE WAS A WAR HERO AS WELL. DURING WORLD WAR II AS A NAVY LIEUTENANT, JOHN F. KENNEDY COMMANDED A P-T BOAT THAT WAS RAMMED AND URECKED BY AN ENEMY, CRAFT. IT WAS THROUGH HIS HEROIC EFFORTS THAT HIS MEN WERE RESCUED. BURIAL WILL FOLLOW A PONTIFICAL REQUIEM MASS AT WASHINGTON'S VAST ST. MATTHEWS CATHEDRAL (NOON, EST). MONDAY WILL BE A DAY OF MOURNING ACROSS THE NATION. ...AROUND THE WORLD. PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON HAS APPEALED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO GO TO THEIR CHURCHES FOR PRAYER. HE ALSO INVITED ALL PEOPLE ANYWHERE WHO SHARE THIS NATION'S GRIEF TO JOIN IN THE MOURNING, « - ‘UPR130 ) y Fe Nats, rigs MORE DIGNITARIES, WITH KENNEDY (UPR. 116) XXX CANADA. ISRAEL -ZOLMAN SHAZAR /. PRESIDENT | “MRS. GOLDA-MEIR » FOREIGN MINISTER SWEDEN - TAGE ERLANDER PREMIER VIET NAM ~~ NGUYEN NGOC THO _ PRIME. MINISTER JAMAICA SIR ALEX BUSTAMENTE ° PRIME MINISTER LIBERIA RUDULPH GRIMES «SEC, OF STATE TANGANYIKA A-M MANG*ENYA EE “ueN REPRESENTATIVE | ALGERIA ——S*~*«CAMARR” OUZ-ZAGNE MINISTER OF STATE TUNISIA. MONGI SLIM FOREIGN MINISTER SPAIN MUNOZ GJNDE VICE PRESIDENT NICARAGUA ~~ DRe- ALPEONSO. ORETEGA URBANA’ FOREIGN MINISTER. PORTUGAL LUIS’SUPICO PINTO PRES, COOPERATIVE CHAMBERS “LUXEMBOURG PRINCE JEAN ° HEREDITARY GRAND DUKE PHILIPPINES DIOSADO MACAPAGAL PRESIDENT CAMBODIA °.- NORODAN CANTO | PRIME MINISTER KOREA —Ss«S*«CM BYON CHOU PRIME MINISTER _* ERUADOR NEFTALI PONCE-MIRANDA _ FOREIGN MINISTER (ORE. LATER)’ ~9- INSERT: , IN UPR116, UNDER WEST GERMANY, THE FOLLOWING? HEINRICH LUEBKE, PRESIDENT; GERHARD SCHROEDER, FOREIGN MINISTER; AND KAI-EWE VON HASSEL, DEFENSE MINISTER. , , GS01PCST 11/23 - MKY NTL | 1P TOR MAPLE LEAFS 3 BOS BRUINS 0 =—“\\ HKY AM 1P SPRINGFIELD 2 CLEVELAND 1 IP PITTSBURGH 2 HERSHEY 4 UPR131 | (TASS--WITH KENNEDY) (MOSCOW) =--THE OFFICIAL SOVIET NEWS ACENCY... TASS.» «HAS CHARGED DALLAS POLICE WITH TRYING TO IMPLICATE THE COMMUNIST PARTY IN THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY. , , _ THE BROADCAST IN MOSCOW, SAID THAT "SERIOUS OBSERVERS” ARE PUTTING LITTLE FAITH IN DALLAS POLICE STATEMENTS THAT LEE HARVEY OSWALD, THE ~ ACCUSED KILLER OF THE PRESIDENT, HAS READILY ADMITTED BEING A COMIUNIST. . , | -THE’BROADCAST SAID OBSERVERS WERE AWAITING FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS. TASS INSISTS THE KILLING WAS THE WORK OF "RACISTS, THE KU KLUX KLAN AND BIRCHISTS." | | G8OSPCST 11/23 UPR134 BUREAUS t A SPLIT WILL BE CALLED AFTER COMPLETION OF THE SIXTH ROUNDUP. UPI/CHICAGO G827PCST 11/23" ‘UPR135 MORE SIXTH ROUNDUP XXX ASSASSINATION. (HORE SUSPECT) IN PROBING THE BACKGROUND OF THE ACCUSED KILLER, IT WAS REVEALED ‘THAT HE IS CHAIRMAN OF A GROUP KNOWN AS "FAIR PLAY FOR CUB A” HE -IS KNOWN TO HAVE APPLIED FOR CITIZENSHIP TO RUSSIA BUT. WAS DENIED. HE STAYED IN RUSSIA. FOR SOME TIME AND WHILE THERE MARRIED A RUSSIAN GIRL. | A FRIEND OF OSWALD'S, MICHAEL PAINE, SAID TODAY THAT ONE OF THE REASONS OSWALD BECANE DISENCHANTED AFTER HIS DEFECTION TO RUSSIA IN 1959 WAS THAT THE SOVIETS REFUSED TO ALLOW HIM TO OWN A GUN UNLESS “HE JOINED A SHOOTING CLUB. | “OSWALD DID A TOUR IN THE U-S MARINE CORPS PRIOR TO HIS DEFECTION TO RUSSIA IN 1959. HE WAS GIVEN AN DISCHARGE AS AN UNDESIRABLE. | . AN EX MARINE SERGEANT CONFIRMED TODAY THAT WHILE IN THE CORPS “GWALD HELD AN EXPERT RATING IN MARKSMANSHIP WITH A HICH POWERED RIFLE. OSWALD SPENT LAST SUMMER IN NEW ORLEANS. ACQUAINTANCES THERE | ‘TERMED THE ACCUSED KILLER AS "ARROGANT, SURLY AND UNPLEASANT." OSVALD'S MOTHER VISITED HER Son TODAY AT THE DALLAS JAIL AND SAID. "I WANT TO HEAR IT FROM HIM THAT HE DID IT.” AS SHE LEFT, SHE CRADLED HER SON"S MONTH-OLD BABY. SHE SHIED AJAY FROM NEWSMEN AND PHOTOGRAPHERS, MURMURING "WATCH OUT FOR THE “BABY. WATCH OUT FOR THE BABY." rile pias te iabies | ) % 7) fff UPR138 FOURTEENTH WORLD IN BRIEF -0- LATE NEWS FROM UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL? (MIAMI)--CUBA'S PREMIER FIDEL CASTRO TOLD HIS PEOPLE TONIGHT THEY MAY BE CONFRONTED WITH A NEV U-S=-BACKED INVASION UNDER PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON. IN A RADIO AND TELEVISION SPEECH HEARD IN MIAMI, THE CUBAN LEADER SAID "AN : , | VEN WORSE POLICY” MAY EMANATE FROM WASHINGTON NOW, BUT ADDED THE “ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY "HAS NO JUSTIFICATION." WE WENT ON --"THE DEATH OF A MAN, EVEN THOUGH HE IS OUR ENEMY, HAS NO REASON TO MAKE US JOYFUL." THERE WAS NO IMMEDIATE COMMENT ON POSSIBLE TIES BETWEEN ACCUSED SLAYER LEE OSi/LD AND A "FAIR PLAY FOR CUDA" C201 -0- (WASHINGTON) ~-FRIENDS CLOSE.TO MRS« JACQUELINE KENNEDY SAY SHE IS MAKING IT A POINT TO HOLD UP UNDER THE STRAIN OF. HER HUSBAND'S DEATH. SHE IS NOT ‘GIVEN TO PUBLIC DISPLAY OF ALOT ION, THEY SAY, BUT ADD THEY DON'T BELIEVE SHE HAS YET . REALIZED COMPLETELY WHAT HAS HAPPENED, BOTH OF THE.LATE: | PRESIDENT*S CHILDREN HAVE BEEN TOLD OF THEIR FATHER'S DEATH “seePRESUMABLY. BY THEIR MOTHER. CAROLINE...AGE SIX AND WISE S BEYOND HER YEARS...SEEMS TO COMPREHEND WHAT HAS HAPPENED. BUI A LITTLE BOY, WHOSE RECOLLECTIONS OF THE BIG HOUSE ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE INCLUDED THE RUSTY-HAIRED MAN WHO USED TO ROMP WITH HIM, IS FINDING IT ALL A BIT BEWILDERING. "I DON'T HAVE ANYONE TO PLAY WITH," JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, JUNIOR SAID TODAY, HE'LL BE THREE ON MONDAY. -o- (WASHINGT ON)--PRESIDENT JOHNSON WILL MEET WITH THE u-S AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH VIET NAM, HENRY CABOT LODGE, TOMORROW. THEY WILL HOLD THE TALKS LODGE AND PRESIDENT’ KENNEDY HAD SCHEDULED. ears eae THE WHITE HOUSE HAS ALSO ANNOUNCED THE NEW PRESIDENT WILL MAKE A MAJOR POLICY SPEECH ON WEDNESDAY AT A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS. ON TUESDAY, HE'LL MEET WITH SOME FOREIGN HEADS OF STATE WHO WILL STAY OVER IN WASHINGTON AFTER PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S _ FUNERAL ON MONDAY. , | | TODAY, MR. JOHNSON ISSUED A PROCLAMATION CALLING FOR A NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING MONDAY, HE CALLED ON AMERICANS TO PAY TRIBUTE TO THE PRESIDENT HE CALLS ---"A CREAT AND GOOD MAN.” PRESIDENT JOHNSON ALSO HELD HIS FIRST CABINET MEETING TODAY.» HE OPENED IT WITH A SILENT MINUTE OF PRAYER FOR MR. KENNEDY. | SRO4OPCS 11/23 UPR139 EDITORS $ PERSONS ARE BEGINNING TO TURN UP AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS IN DALLAS WITH "EYEWITNESS" ACCOUNTS: OF THE ASSASSINATION. MANY STORIES OBVIOUSLY ARE UNS OUND. WE DO NOT PLAN -TO | CARRY "EYEWITNESS" STORIES UNLESS THEY WITHSTAND A CHECKOUT ‘AND ADD TO DETAILS OF THE ASSASSINATION. - UPI /DALLAS UPR140 MORE OSWALD BULLETIN XXX OWNER. UP TO NOW THERE HAJD BEEN NO COMMENT FROM AUTHORITIES ON WHETHER OR NOT OSWALD*'S FINGERPRINTS WERE ON THE GUN. ~ vi aw IT HAD BEEN BELIEVED THAT: THE GUN WAS OSWALD*'S...AND PARAFFIN | TESTS: EARLIER SHOWED THAT OSWALD HAD USED A RIF LE SHORTLY BEFORE THE ASSINATION. | ‘THE RUMOR THAT OSWALD AND RUBY MIGHT HAVE BEEN LINKED IN SOME WAY APPARENTLY BEGAN WITH AN ENTERTAINER WHO WORKED FOR RUBY. WZ SAID ON A TELEVISION INTERVIEW (CBS) THIS AFTERNOON THAT HE THOUGHT HE HAD SEEN OSWALD IN THE CLUB LAST WEEK, THE COMMUNIST EAST GERMAN NEWS AGENCY A=D-N ALSO CARRIED THE REPORT. SR-G 1002PCST 11/24 UPR1 43) (MESSAGE) (WASHINGTON) =~-FOLLOWING IS THE. TEXT OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S | THANKSGIVING ADDRESS DELIVERED TO THE NATION OVER TELEVISION AND RADIOs | rs , MY FELLOW AMERICANS: ON YESTERDAY, I WENT BEFORE THE CONGRESS TO SPEAK FOR THE. FIRST TIME AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. _ TONIGHT, ON THIS THANKSGIVING, I.COME BEFORE YOU TO ASK YOUR HELP, TO ASK YOUR STRENGTH, TO ASK YOUR PRAYERS THAT GOD MAY GUARD THIS REPUBLIC AND GUIDE MY EVERY LABOR. , , ALL OF US HAVE LIVED THROUGH SEVEN DAYS THAT NONE OF US WILL EVER FORGET, WE ARE NOT GIVEN THE DIVINE WISDOM TO ANSWER WHY THIS | HAS BEEN, BUT WE ARE GIVEN THE HUMAN DUTY OF DETERMINING WHAT IS TO BE, WHAT IS TO BE FOR AMERICA, FOR THE WORLD, FOR THE CAUSE WE LEAD, FOR ALL THE HOPES THAT LIVE IN OUR HEARTS. . A GREAT LEADER IS DEADs A GREAT NATION MUST MOVE ON, YESTERDAY IS NOT OURS TO RECOVER, BUT TOMORROW IS OURS TO WIN OR TO LOSE, I AM RESOLVED THAT WE SHALL WIN THE TOMORROWS BEFORE US. SO_ TASK YOU TO JOIN ME IN THAT RESOLVE, DETERMINED THAT FROM THIS “MIDNIGHT OF TRAGEDY, WE SHALL MOVE TOWARD A NEW AMERICAN GREATNESS. MORE THAN ANY GENERATION BEFORE US, WE HAVE CAUSE TO BE THANKFUL - ON THIS THANKSGPUK OUR HARVESTS ARE BOUNTIFUL, OUR FACTORIES : FLOURISH, OUR HOMES ARE SAFE, OUR DEFENSES ARE SECURE. WE LIVE IN PEACE. THE GOODWILL OF THE WORLD POURS OUT FOR US, BUT MORE THAN THESE BLESSINGS, WE KNOW TONIGHT THAT OUR SYSTEM IS STRONG, STRONG-AND SECURE. A DEED THAT WAS. MEANT TO TEAR US APART HAS BOUND US TOGETHER. OUR SYSTEM HAS, PASSED. YOU.HAVE PASSED A’ GREAT. TEST. YOU HAVE SHOWN WHAT JOHN F, KENNEDY CALLED UPON US TO SHOW IN HIS PROCLAMATION OF THIS THANKSGIVING. THAT THE DECENCY OF PURPOSE, THAT STEADFASTNESS OF RESOLVE AND THAT STRENGTH OF WILL WHICH WE INHERIT FROM OUR FOREFATHERS. | WHAT BETTER CONVEYS WHAT IS BEST FOR AMERICA THAN THIS. ON. SATURDAY ‘WHEN THESE GREAT BURDENS HAD BEEN MINE ONLY HOURS, THE FIRST TWO CITIZENS TO CALL UPON ME AND TO OFFER THEIR WHOLE SUPPORT WERE DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER AND HARRY S, TRUMAN. SINCE LAST FRIDAY, AMERICANS HAVE TURNED TO THE GOOD, TO THE DECENT VALUES OF OUR LIFE, THESE HAVE SERVED US. YES, THESE HAVE SAVED US.. THE SERVICE OF OUR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS AND OUR PUBLIC MEN IS THE SALVATION OF US ALL FROM THE SUPREME COURT TO THE STATES. AND HOW MUCH BETTER WOULD IT BE? HOW MUCH MORE SANE IT WOULD BE, HOW MUCH MORE DECENT AND AMERICAN IT WOULD BE IF ALL AMERICANS COULD SPEND THEIR FORTUNES AND COULD GIVE THEIR TIME AND SPEND THEIR ENERGIES HELPING OUR SYSTEM AND ITS SERVANTS TO SOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS INSTEAD OF POURING OUT THE VENOM AND THE HATE THAT STALEMATE US IN PROGRESS. (MORE) JJS29PCS 11/28. HKY NTL | MON CANADIENS 7 DET RED WINGS 3. UPR144 3 FIFTEENTH WORLD IN BRIEF ere LATE NEWS FROM UNITED. PRESS INTERNATIONALS (SUB CASTRO) (MIAMI) --= CUBAN PREMIER FIDEL CASTRO TONIGHT PUBLICLY DENIED THAT LEE OSWALD---ACCUSED MURDERER OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY---WAS A LEADER OF THE "FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA". COMMITTEE. OSWALD CLAIMED EARLIER HE WAS - ‘A VICE PRESIDENT OF THE GROUP. CASTRO, IN A NATIONWIDE RADIO AND TELEVISION ADDRESS TO HIS PEOPLE HEARD IN MIAMI, SAID A CHECK OF HAVANA FILES SHOWS, HE | WAS NEVER IN SUCH A POSITION, HE ALSO SAID THE ACCESSION OF LYNDON JOHNSON TO THE PRESIDENCY COULD SPELL MORE TROUBLE FOR CUBA. HE WENT SO FAR AS TO PREDICT HIS COUNTRY MAY BE - FACED WITH A NEW U-S-SUPPORTED INVASION. HOWEVER, HE ADDED, THE ASSASSINATION "HAS NO JUSTIFICATION." are | "(DALLAS )=---POLICE HAVE ANNOUNCED THEY HAVE TWO NEW PIECES OF INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE AGAINST LEE HARVEY OSWALD--THE MA RXIST EX-MARINE ACCUSED OF KILLING PRESIDENT KENNEDY YESTERDAY. | | DALLAS POLICE REPORT THEY HAVE mvs ae OSWALD QF THE CRIME. | POLICE FOUND PHOTOGRAPHS ‘OF OSWALD HOLDING THE MURDER WEAPON AND A PISTOL HE HAD WHEN HE WAS CAPTURED. THE PHOTOGRAPHS WERE TAKEN BEFORE THE CRIME AND. WERE FOUND IN OSWALD'S APARTMENT: POLICE. HAVE SHOWN THE PHOTOS TO OSWALD AND SAY HE APPEARED. FRIGHTENED WHEN HE SAW ‘THEM---BUT HE STILL MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE. THE POLICE ALSO FOUND A THE SOURCE OF THE RIFLE--=A SIX-POINT-FIVE. ITALIAN-HADE CARCANO CKAHR=KAH-NOH) RIFLE=-WHICH KILLED” MR. KENNEDY. IT WAS PURCHASED FOR 12-DOLWRS-78 CENTS.FROM A CHICAGO MAIL-ORDER HOUSE. IT WAS DELIVERED TO THE DALLAS POST OFFICE. POLICE SAY A CHECK OF THE ORDER SHOWS IT WAS WRITTEN BY OSWALD. | A Fi2\FFIN TEST GIVE! SA2LDDt LID EC ATlS .C COWALD FIRED A WEAPON” BEFORE HIS ARREST. HE WAS APPREHENDED WITH A PISTOL -WITH WHICH HE. ALLEGEDLY KILLED A PURSUING POLICEMAN. BUT THERE ARE GUNPOWDER TRACES ON BOTH HANDS---INDICATING HE MAY HAVE FIRED A RIFLE. -0- UPR148 © . MORE MESSAGE X X X PROGRESS. 1 I HAVE SERVED IN WASHINGTON 32 YEARS--~32 YEARS YESTERDAY. I HAVE SEEN FIVE PRESIDENTS FILL THIS AWESOME OFFICE. I HAVE KNOWN THEM _ WELL AND I HAVE COUNTED THEM ALL AS FRIENDS$ PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER, PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN, PRESIDENT DWIGHT EISENHOWER AND PRESIDENT JOHN KENNEDY. , , IN EACH ADMINISTRATION, THE GREATEST BURDEN THAT THE PRESIDENT HAD TO BEAR HAD BEEN THE BURDEN OF HIS OWN COUNTRYMEN'S UNTHINKING AND UNREASONING HATE AND DIVISION. SO, IN THESE DAYS, THE FATE OF THIS OFFICE IS THE FATE OF US ALL. I WOULD ASK ALL AMERICANS ON THIS DAY OF PRAYER AND REVERENCE TO THINK ON THESE THINGS. LET ALL WHO SPEAK AND ALL WHO TEACH AND ALL WHO PREACH AND ALL WHO PUBLISH AND ALL WHO BROADCAST AND ALL WHO READ OR: LISTEN@--LET THEM REFLECT UPON THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES TO BIND OUR WOUNDS, TO HEAL OUR SORES, TO MAKE OUR SOCIETY WELL AND WHOLE FOR ° THE TASKS AHEAD OF US. IT IS THIS WORK THAT I MOST WANTED US TO DO, TO BANISH RANCOR FRCM OUR WORDS AND MALICE FROM OUR HEARTS, TO CLOSE DOWN THE POISON SPRING OF HATRED AND INTOLERANCE AND FANATACISM3 TO PROTECT OUR UNITY NORTH AND SOUTH, EAST AND WESTs TO HASTEN THE DAY WHEN BIAS OF RACE, RELIGION AND REGION IS NO MORE AND TO MAKE THE DAY WHEN CUR GREAT ENERGIES AND DECENCIES AND SPIRIT WILL BE FREE OF THE BURDENS THAT WE HAVE BORNE TOO LONG. | | OUR VIEW IS OUTWARD. OUR THRUST IS FORWARD, BUT WE REMEMBER IN OUR HEARTS THIS BRAVE YOUNG MAN WHO LIES IN HONORED ETERNAL REST ACROSS THE POTOMAC. WE REMEMBER HIM; WE REMEMBER HIS WONDERFUL AND “COURAGEOUS WIDOW THAT WE ALL LOVE. WE REMEMBER CAROLINE AND ‘JOHN AND ALL THE GREAT FAMILY THAT GAVE THE NATION THIS SON AND ‘BROTHER. | AND TO HONOR THIS MEMORY AND THE FUTURE OF THE WORKS HE STARTED y I HAVE TODAY DETERMINED THAT STATION: NUMBER ONE OF THE ATLANTIC MISSILE RANGE AND THE NASA LAUNCH OPERATION CENTER IN FLORIDA SHALL HEREAFTER BE KNOWN AS THE JOHN F. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. I HAVE ALSO ACTED TODAY WITH THE UNDERSTANDING AND THE SUPPORT © OF MY. FRIEND, THE GOVERNOR, OF FLORIDA, FARRIS, .BRYANT 5 TO, CHANGE. THE oo. . NAME OF CAPE CANAVERAL. . IT SHALL BE KNOWN HEREAFTER AS CAPE KENNEDY. hae, ‘ON THIS” THANKSGIVING DAY, AS WE GATHER IN THE WARMTH OF OUR ..” FAMILIES, IN OUR MUTUAL LOVE AND RESPECT THAT WE HAVE FOR ONE ANOTHER, "AND AS WE BOW OUR HEADS IN SUBMISSION TO DIVINE PROVIDENCE, LET US _ - ALeO THANK GOD FOR THE YEARS THAT HE GAVE US INSPIRATION THROUGH HIS “SERVANT JOHN F. KENNEDY. LET US TODAY RENEW OUR DEDICATION TO THE IDEALS THAT ARE AMERICAN. LET US PRAY FOR HIS DIVINE WISDOM IN BANISHING FROM OUR LAND ANY INJUSTICE OR INTOLERANCE OR OPPRESSION TO ANY OF OUR FELLOW AMERICANS WHATEVER THEIR OPINION, WHATEVER .THE COLOR OF THEIR SKINS --=FOR COD MADE ALL OF US, NOT SOME OF US,.IN HIS IMAGE. ALL OF US, NOT JUST. SOME OF US, ARE HIS CHILDREN. | AND, FINALLY, TO YOU AS YOUR PRESIDENT, 1 ASK THAT YOU REMEMBER YOUR COUNTRY AND REMEMBER ME EACH DAY IN YOUR PRAYERS, AND I PLEDGE — TO YOU THE BEST WITHIN ME TO WORK FOR A NEW AMERICAN GREATNESS y A NEW. DAY WHEN PEACE IS MORE SECURE, WHEN JUSTICE IS MORE UNIVERSAL, WHEN FREEDOM IS MORE STRONG IN EVERY HOME OF ALL MANKIND. | ~ JJLOOSPCS 11/28. | |