(MORE KENNEDY) | | THE LATE PRESIDENT*S BODY WAS PLACED ON THE BLACK ‘CATAFALQUE WHICH BORE THE BODY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN-==AMERICA’ S FIRST ASSASSINATED PRESIDENT-~-NEARLY A CENTURY AGO. HIS BODY WILL REMAIN IN THE ROTUNDA OVERNIGHT WHILE AMERICANS - —— ___ _ —— > ’ & WL ivhA \ . 4 \ K 27 OF ty ° r PT mA PA Ss TALE = = TY THE vt FILE BY TO PAY RESPECT. TOMORROW, THE PRESIDENT WILL. MAKE ONE FINAL AND BRIEF TRIP BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE GROUNDS. THE CAISSON WILL TAKE IT BACK TO THE ‘ FRONT.OF THE PRESIDENT'S HOME. Y¥-S OBER TREES, A FUNERAL PROCESSION WILL FORM. MRS. KENNEDY AND ROBERT KENNEDY WILL WALK BEHIND THE CASKET TO A CATHEDRAL ABOUT HALF A MILE AWAY « PRESIDENT JOHNSON---WHO NOW CARRIES MR. KENNEDY'S BURDENS--- AND DIGNITARIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD WILL FOLLOW. AFTER THE FUNERAL SERVICES FOR PRESIDENT KENNEDY, HE WILL BE. BURIED AMONG OTHER HEROES AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY. THE CEMETERY OVERLOOKS WASHINGT ON=--A CITY SADDENED TODAY BY THE LOSS OF ITS FIRST CITIZEN. (MORE KENNEDY) | THOUSANDS OF MOURNING AMERICANS LINED THE WASHINGTON STREETS, THERE WERE TEARS ON THE FACES OF MANY.. SOME OF THEM SAT IN TREES. OTHER BROUGHT STEPLADDERS TO GET A BETTER LOOK AT THE CASKET BEARING THE BODY OF THEIR BELOVED PRESIDENT. A 21-GUN SALUTE SOUNDED ONCE THE PROCESSION WAS IN FRONT OF THE CAPITOL. MRS. KENNEDY APPEARED TO BE WEEPING. SHE HELD THE HANDS OF ~ HER CHILDREN AS AN AIR FORCE BAND PLAYED "HAIL TO THE CHIEF." THEN THE BAND PLAYED "ETERNAL FATHER, STRONG TO SAVE" AS THE PALLBEARERS LIFTED THE CASKET UP THE CAPITOL STEPS WHERE MR KENNEDY HAD TAKEN THE OATS OF THE HIGHEST OFFICE INTHE NATION, A SAILOR FOLLOWED, CARRYING THE PRESIDENT'S COLORS. THEN MRS. KENNEDY AND THE CHILDREN FILED INTO THE CAPITOL ROTUNDA. ' "(MORE KENNEDY) , THE CHILDREN WERE BEWILDERED. “CAROLINE LOOKED AS IF SHE WERE FIGHTING BACK TEARS. | MRS. KENNEDY HELD HER HAND AND JOHN JUNIOR'S AND WHISPERED MOTHER'S WORDS OF COMFORT TO THEM. THE MUFFLED DRUMS’ BEGAN THEIR SORROWFUL THROBBING AND THE PROCESSION BEGAN MOVING. A MILITARY HONOR GUARD HEADED THE PROCESSION ALONG PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. | | | - DOWN. PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE---THE SAME ROUTE PRESIDENT KENNEDY RODE IN TRIUMPH WHEN- HE BECAME PRESIDENT NEARLY THREE YEARS ‘AGO. A , MILITARY ‘HONOR GUARD, KEEPING. A STEADY RHYTHM OF ONE- HUNDRED PACES A MINUTE, LED THE, PROCES SION. THREE CLERGYME N FOLLOWED. | THEN SIX HORSES, “KEEPING ‘THE SAME PRECISE PACE , PULLING. THE CAISSON WHICH CARRIED THE PRESIDENT 'S BODY. BLACK A ~Se—7 HORSE FOLLOWED THE CASKET. HE: HAD A SADDLE, BUT NO RIDER===-SY MBOL OF A FALLEN WARRIOR, (WITH 0 WALD---MAN! IN ; THE STREET) (WASHINGTON) =~=THEY WERE THERE. TO. MOURN. «NOT TO BE - VENGEFUL. “MOST. PEOPLE WAITING FOR THE PROCESSION TAKING THE BODY OF, LATE “PRESIDENT JOHN Fe KENNEDY FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. TO THE. CAPITOL WERE AGHAST AT NEWS -THAT HIS ACCUSED ASSASSIN HAD BEEN SHOT. - MOUTRAGEOUS »" SAID MRS. SANUEL LEIDMAN OF WHEATON, MARYLAND. mE MAY NAVER REALLY KNOW THE TRUTH NOW.) I DON* UNDERSTAND THE SLOPPY PROTECTION GIVEN HIM" . ‘CRITICISM OF THE SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS WAS GENERAL Attn THE MOURNERS « Pye | : "HO STUPID CAN THE POLICE IN DALLAS GET," SAID A RETIRED POLICE. - OFFICER WHO REFUSED TO GIVE HIS NAME. “THEY KNEY THERE MIGHT BE TROUBLE, THAT'S WHY THEY PROVIDED AN ARMORED GUARD. BUT WHY. DIDN'T THEY TAKE HIM OUT SECRETLY AT 3 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, - “INSTEAD OF GIVING THE KILLER A TIMETABLE." ay “IF THIS IS TRUE,® SAID FOSTER TERRELL, WASHINGTON BANKER, "IT IS A VERY TRAGIC THING. A’ TRAGEDY ON A TRAGEDY." MRS, GERTRUDE GOODWIN OF WASHINGTON SAID SHE "DIDN'T THINK THIS COULD HAPPEN IN AMERICA." || | MRS. MARGARET BRYAN, OF WASHINGTON, HOPED THAT "OSWALD WOULD RECOVER $O HE COULD DIE AT THE HANDS OF THE LAW, no | CLAUDE STRATTON, AN ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA, SALESMAN, SAID "IT SEEMS TO ME HE SHOULD HAVE HAD BETTER PROTECTION. I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE-SEEN HIM TRIED.- I DON'T APPROVE OF VIOLENCE." MISS A. VONDALE PATTERSON, MORGAN STATE COLLEGE, BALTIMORE, STUDENT, SAID SHE THOUGHT "IT WAS TERRIBLE, HE HADN*T BEEN TRIED. vit. I THINK HE SHOULD HAVE A TRIAL AND BE PUNISHED ONLY IF - CONVICTED." | I THINK THE MAN SHOULD HAVE BEEN TRIED," SAID EUGENE NEAL, A GOVERNMENT ELECTRONICS, WORKER. "IT'S pean a “HE WAS SHOT, AND NOT BETTER PROTECTED." ere AN ANONYMOUS GRAY-HAIRED WOMAN SAID “I'D LIKE HIM TO SUFFER A BIT; THIS WAY IS TOO EASY ON HIM." | MRS, TOM MALLETTE OF ANNANDALE, VIRGINIA, SAID "NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO TAKE THE LAW IN HIS OUN HANDS. MAY GOD HAVE MERCY q) HIS SOUL." os , AND PAUL HOILMAN, WASHINGTON LABORATORY WORKER, SAID "HE MIGHT NOT BE THE ONE. WE CAN'T KNOW. WITHOUT A TRIAL. IF HE ISN'T THE ONE, E'D BE HURTING." soe | , a eres S2HOPCS 11/24 SADDLE. WHILE MR. KENNEDY'S COFFIN WAS BEING PLACED ATOP THE CAISSON, THE SNAPPY BLACK HORSE CAUGHT THE EYES OF THE KENNEDY CHILDREN. MRS. KE? INEDY LEANED SLIGHTLY TOWARD CAROLINE TO EXPLAIN THE TRADITION OF THE RIDERLESS MOUNT. LITTLE JOHN JUNIOR POINTED AT THE HORSE IN YOUTHFUL ADMIRATION. “coe AT TIMES AS THE PROCESSION MOVED TOWARD TNE CAPITOL, THE HORSE APPEARED SKITTISH, PRANCING ITS HOOVES AND JERKING AGAINST ITS - PRIDLE. | | THE SUNLIGHT GLINTED ON THE EMPTY BOOTS. . THE HORSE WAS HELD IN LINE BY PRIVATE FIRST CLASS ARTHURN CARLSON OF RIB THE TRADITION OF THE "CAPARISONED HORSE” STRETCHES BACK CENTURIES. TO THE TIME WHEN A FALLEN LEADER'S HORSE WOU a THE HORSE VAS HELD IN LINE BY PRIVATE FIRST CLASS ARTHUR CARLSON OF RMBERTSDALE, VIRCINIA. - . THE TRADITION OF THE "CAPARISONED HORSE" STRETCHES BACK CENTURIES ‘TO THE TIME WHEN A FALLEN LEADER'S HORSE WOULD PE SACRIFICED AT HIS BURIAL. TODAY THE’ CUSTOM IS RESERVED FOR MILITARY. FUNERALS * OF GENERAL OFFICERS. THE BOOTS ARE REVERSED IN THE STIRRUPS TO SIGNIFY A VIEV BACK ON THE CAREER OF THE MAN BEING HONORED. THE CAISSON WAS ONE OF TWO FULL SETS OF CAISSONS AND EQUIPMENT MAINTAINED BY THE ARMY'S CEREMONIAL UNIT, KNOWN AS "THE OLD GUARD," AT FORT MYER, THE CAISSONS ARE USED FOR MILITARY FUNERALS AT ~/ ARLINGTON NATIONAL CE EMETERY,, AND SOMETIMES TAKE PART IN AS MANY AS “15.0 17.4 ‘DAY. , | Digitek | A / ORIG Ii ‘ALLY, THE THO SECTIONED. carssons MERE USED. TO BRING FIELD. See “GUNS At 1D. AMMUNITION INTO ‘BATTLE ‘BY paVALRY AND ARTILLERY UNITS 6 Ore -s252Pcs ANB re xe ~ (TRIBUTE) IT WAS A GRIEVING WORLD...IT WAS A PRAYING WORLD...AND IN CHURCHES AROUND THE GLOBE, PEOPLE OF EVERY FAITH PAID TRIBUTE TO JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY. FROM A BUDDHIST PAGODA IN SAIGON...TO ST. PETERS'S BASILICA IN ROUE. + FROM MOSCOW. «TO JERUSALEM. 6 ne THEY PRAYED FOR HIM. THEY PRAYED FOR JOHN KENNEDY THE MAN...JOHN KENNEDY THE PRESIDENT «,« AND THEIR PRAYERS WERE STAINED WITH TEARS. AT LONDON'S WESTMINSTER ABBEY, IT WAS SAID OF HIN---HE "BROUGHT A BREATH OF FRESH AIR INTO LIFE...A PASSION THAT MOVES THE WORLD... A SYMBOL OF HOPE, REMINING MEN OF WHAT THEY MIGHT BE." | POPE PAUL THE SIXTH CALLED HIS sesageTnn Tia "THE CRIME HAS AROUSED THE DEPLORATION OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AND RICHARD CARDINAL CUSHING OF BOSTON.+.A PERSONAL FRIEND OF THE LATE PRESIDENT. «LAUDED HIS "COOL It STELLIGENCE AND BRAVE HEART AND SAID ALSO, "THIS REPUBLIC. « «HAS BEEN ENRICHED BY. THE BLOOD ‘THAT WAS SO WANTONLY SHED ON FRIDAY LAST." : S831PCS 11/20, ZPLIT?S ~ §PLIT---RW 346 HF FLORIDA 7 MIAMI OF FLORIDA 6 ¥ , (CLUSINGS---WITH KENNEDY) _ VIRTUALLY ALL STORES, BANKS, SCHOOLS,. LIBRARIES AND THEATERS CLOSE MONDAY. «eAMERICA'S DAY OF. MOURNING. THE MAJOR AUTOMOBILE WORKERS WILL CLOSE THEIR PLANTS AT NOON 10 PERMIT EMPLOYES TO ATTENE MEMORIAL.SERVICES. CHIEF JUSTICE EARL WARREN HAS CALLED OFF MOMNDAY'S SCHEDULED SESSION OF THE SUPREME COURT. My oe | ae THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD WILL STOP ALL ITS TRAINS FOR ONE MINUTE ‘DURING THE FUNERAL, ‘POSTAL INSTALLATIONS ACROSS THE NATION WILL BE CLOSED EXCEPT FoR SOME LIMITED SERVICE FOR BUSINESS FIRMS. yank es SE 20+ _ COTHER --- WITH KENN EDY) - POPE. PAUL BOWED HIS. HEAD IN SILENT. ‘PRAYER. TODAY | FOR THE LATE md - PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND CELEBRATED MASS FOR THE SOUL oF THE ASSASSINATED. CHIEF . EXECUTIVE, | ; PREMIER KHRUSHCHEV DESCRIBED THE SLAIN PRESIDENT U A WREALISTIC POLITICIAN” AS HE LED THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE IN A DISPLAY OF MOURNING, } _ FORMER AMBASSADOR JOSEPH KENNEDY WAS TOLD FOR THE FIRST TIME OF THE DEATH OF IIIS SON, AND REPORTEDLY TOOK THE NEWS "REMARKABLY WELL." THE AILING ELDERLY KENNEDY WILL NOT ATTEND FUNERAL SERVICES, THE ASSASSINATED PRESIDENT'S 72-YEAR-OLD MOTHER ATTENDED TWO MASSES BEFORE GOING WITH. HER YOUNGEST SON SENATOR EDWARD-KENNEDY...TO BREAK THE NEWS :TO JOSEPH KENNEDY. AT. LOS ANGELES, REPRESENTATIVE JAMES ROOSEVELT SAID HE WILL ASK CONGRESS "IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES" TO AWARD THE CONGRESSIONAL. MEDAL OF HONOR POSTHUMOUSLY TO ‘PRESIDENT. KENNEDY. . IN'NEW YORK CITY, BLACK CLOTH DRAPED THE TWO ENTRANCES’ OF THE HOTEL ~ CARLYLE, USED.BY THE KENNEDY FAMILY WHEN THEY WERE IN THE CITY. IN DALLAS, ‘TEXAS GOVERNOR JOHN CONNALLY, RECOVERING FROM ONE OF “THE SNIPER'S BULLETS, WAS TOLD FOR THE FIRST TIME OF THE PRESIDENT'S DEATH. ee | , , AND AT THE WHITE HOUSE...ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN SYMBOLS OF THE KENNEDY ADMINISTRATION... THE ROCKING CHAIR...HAS. BEEN REMOVED FROM THE — PRESIDENT*S OFFICE. | a | ee (OTHER NEWS) IN OTHER NEWS TONICHTS. “A FIRE WHICH DESTROYED A NURSING. HOME IN NORWALK, OHIO, THIS MORNING KILLED 63 ELDERLY MEN AND WOMEN. THE FIRE TOOK MORE -LIVES THAN ANY IN THE NATION IN NEARLY FIVE YEARS, FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD IN LOS ANGELES FOR NOVELIST ALDOUS HUXLEY. HUXLEY DIED YESTERDAY AT THE AGE OF 69, G857PCST 11/23 HY AMN oP PITTSBURGH 3 HERSHEY 1 (KENNEDY) PRESIDENT JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY'S BODY WILL LIE FOREVER AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY OVERLOOKING THE NATIION'S CAPITAL. | THE UHITE HOUSE HAS ANNOUNCED THE FAMILY OF THE ASSASSINATED PRESIDENT HAS CHOSEN THE MILITARY CEMETERY AS HIS BURIAL PLACE. ONLY ONE OTHER AMERICAN PRESIDENT---WILLIAM MOWARD TAFT---LIES THERE. MR. KENNEDY IS ENTITLED TO BURIAL THERE BECAUSE OF HIS POSITION AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE U-S FORCES AND BECAUSE OF HIS NAVAL SERVICE IN- VORLD WAR TWO, TONIGHT IS MR. KENNEDY'S LAST NIGHT IN THE WHITE HOUSE. HIS BODY LIES IN REPOSE IN THE EAST ROOM WHERE A HOST OF DIGNITARIES FILED BY TODAY TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS. AMONG THEN ~-= CONGRESS SMEN, STATE GOVERNORS, FORMER PRESIDENTS EISENHOWER AND TRUMAN AND PRESIDENT JOHNSON WHO NOW CARRIES M2. KENNEDY'S BURDEN. THE SCENE OF MOURNING--- HIS CLOSED CASKET IS DRAPED WITH AN AMERICAN FLAG. A CANDLE BURNS | AT EACH CORNER OF THE CATAFALQUE WHICH BEARS IT. AN ELISTED MAN FROM EACH OF THE ARMED SERVICES STANDS VIGIL. THERE IS JUST ONE BOUQUET AND A LARGE CRUCIFIX. | TOMORROW, A HORSE-DRAWN CAISSON WILL CARRY PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S BODY ON A MOURNFUL JOURNEY DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE THEN UP. CONSTITUTION AVENUE TO THE CAPITOL. A 21-GUN SALUTE WILL SOUND. THEN RUFFLES AND FLOURISHES AND THE PLAYING. OF "HAIL TO THE CHIEF." THE CASKET WILL LIE IN STATE IN THE GREAT ROTUNDA OF THE CAPITOL UNTIL MONDAY, THERE IT WILL LIE ON THE CATAFALQUE WHICH BORE THE BODY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE BODIES OF THREE OTHER PRESIDENTS HAVE RESTED ON THE PRECIOUS CATAFALQUE. ON MONDAY, A PCNTIFICAL MASS WILL BE HELD AT ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH "IN WASHINGTON. RICHARD CARDINAL CUSHING.. A CLOSE... . FRIEND OF THE KENNEDYS...WILL CONDUCT THE RITES FOR THE PRESIDENT HE . HAS CALLED---"THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN OF THE 20TH CE? ITURY."- FOUR MONTHS © AGO, HE SAID MASS FOR ANOTHER KENNEDY=-=PRES IDENT AND MRS, KENNEDY'S SON, PATRICK, WHO LIVED ONLY. TWO DAYS. THE WORLD'S LEADERS WILL BE AT THE FUNERAL. ‘SOME OF THEM---FRENCH . PRESIDENT DE GAULLE. ..BRITISH PRIME MINISTER DOUGLAS- “HO! iE CHEWM). eee! PRINCE: PHILIP. » « PREWIER TAGE ERLANDER OF SWEDEN. « .WEST GERI TANZAT! 4YCHAIH PRESIDENT DE GAULLE. ..BRITISH PRIME MINISTER DOUGLAS-HOME CHEWM) eee PRINCE PHILIP. ee PREMIER TAGE ERLANDER OF SWEDEN. ee WEST GERMAN CHANCELLOR ERHARD. eeBERLIN MAYOR WILLY BRANDT. -0Q- | , (THE WHITE HOUSE)--SOURCES IN THE WHITE HOUSE SAID TONIGHI IT NOW APPEARS THE PRESIDENT WAS HIT BY TWO BULLETS -- INSTEAD OF ONE AS ORIGINALLY THOUGHT. STAFF DOCTORS AT DALLAS" PARKLAND HOSPITAL SAY ONLY THAT THE SNIPER'S BULLET PIERCED THE MID-SECTION OF THE FRONT PART. OF HIS NECK AND EMERGED FROM THE TOP OF HIS SKULL. THE WHITE HOUSE SOURCES, “HOWEVER, SAY THEY UNDERSTOOD ONE SLUG HIT MR. KENNEDY IN } THE NECK AREA. .THEN HE REPORTEDLY BENT FORWARD, TURNED HIS HEAD AND WAS HIT IN THE HEAD BY THE SECOND BULLET. - = (WASHINGTON) --PRESIDENT JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY---STRUCK DOWN YESTERDAY BY AN ASSASSIN=--WILL BE BURIED IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY. MR. KENNEDY WILL BE THE SECOND AMERICAN PRESIDENT TO LIE IN THE CEMETERY OVERLQOKING WASHINGTON. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT IS THE OTHER. TONIGHT. ..MR. KENNEDY'S BODY IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE FOR THE LAST TIME. TOMORROW... HE'LL LIE IN STATE IN THE ROTUNDA OF THE CAPITOL AND ON MONDAY, HE'LL BE BURIED. | THE NATION'S GREAT HAVE BEEN STREAMING INTO THE EAST ROOM OF THE WHITE HOUSE WHERE THE PRESIDENT'S BODY RESTS IN A CASKET DRAPED WITH THE AMERICAN FLAG. . TOMORRO’, THE COMMON PEOPLE PAY THEIR RESPECTS AT THE CAPITOL. THE PRESIDENT'S BODY WILL MAKE THAT LAST TRIP' DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE IN A CAISSON DRAWN BY SEVEN HORSES. FOLLOWING WITH MUFFLED DRUMS WILL BE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SERVICES. THE BODY WILL LIE IN STATE OVERNIGHT, RESTING ON A CATAFALQUE WHICH 100 YEARS AGO BORE THE BODY OF AMERICA'S FIRST ASSASSINATED PRESIDENT --ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE SERVICE MONDAY WILL BE CONDUCTED BY RICHARD CARDINAL CUSHING veel FRIEND OF THE KENNEDY FAMILY. HE'LL SAY A PONTIFICAL MASS AT - ST. MATTHEW'S CATHEDRAL - IN WASHINGTON. | | . | | : | -0- / -(UASHINGTON)==-TONIGHT JOHN FITZGERALD. KENNEDY BELONGS ‘TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, | HIS Bony LIES IN STATE IN THE CAPITOL ROTUNDA AND THOUSANDS OF — SORROWFUL ies ae STREAMING BY FOR A RESPECTFUL LOOK AT. HIS CASKET =r COVERED WITH AN AMERICAN FLAG. | HIS WIDOW LEFT HIS COFF IN---WHICH LIES ON THE CATAF ALQUE. WHICH QNCE BORE THE BODY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN---THIS AFTERNOON AFTER GIVING THE © FLAG A REVERENT KISS. SHE RETURNED TO THE ROTUNDA LATER IN THE EVENING. se KNELT BY THE CASKET. eAND KISSED IT AGAIN. x | SHORTLY THEREAFTER, MRS. ROSE KENNEDY---MOTHER OF THE LATE PR ESIDENT---KNELT WITH OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS: BESIDE THE BIER. AT THAT TIME, 6O-THOUSAND HAD FILED PAST FOR THEIR FINAL ADIEU. - TOMORROW JACQUELINE WILL WALK BEHIND HER HUSBAND AS A HORSE=: | DRAWN CAISSON CARRIES HIS CASKET TO ST. MATTHEW'S CATHEDRAL FOR A | REQUIEI MASS. OFFICIALS OF THE GOVERNMENT AND DIGNITARIES’ FROM LANDS AROUND THE WORLD VILL FOLLOW IN THE PROCESSION, mR. KENNEDY WILL BE BURIED AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY ON A GRAVESITE OVERLOOKING THE NATION'S CAPITAL. BKB NTL 2Q STL HAWKS 97 CIN ROYALS 85 FB FINALS FLORIDA A-AND-M 38 BETHUNE COOKNAN 14 EAST CAROLINA COLLEGE 14 TAMPA 8 -o- (WASHINGTON)---THE LATE PRESIDENT KENNEDY WILL BE GIVEN THE BURIAL OF A NATICNAL HERO, MONDAY. ..IN ARLINGTON NATICNAL CEMETERY ACROSS THE POTOMAC RIVER FROM WASHINGTON. | INTERMENT IN THE NATIONAL SHRINE WILL FOLLOW PONTIFICAL REQUIEM YASS AT. THE CAPITAL"S VAST ST. MATTHEWS CATHEDRAL. | PAYING THEIR LAST RESPECTS AT THE SERVICE AND AT GRAVESIDE WILL BE THE CHIEFS OF STATE OR HIGH DIGNITARIES FROM MANY COUNTRIES ON EITHER SIDE OF THE IRCN CURTAIN...FRANCE, WEST GERMANY, RUSSIA, JAPAN, CANADA, IRELAND, BELGIUM AND THE NETHERLANDS. | WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT IS THE ONLY OTHER U-S PRESIDENT BURIED IN THE NATIONAL CEMETERY. | | | JOHN FITZGERALD KENNELY HAD THE RIGHT TO A GRAVE IN ARLINGTON AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE NATION'S ARMED FORCES. BUT HE EARNED THE RIGHT AS A HERO IN VORLD WAR TWO-AS. A NAVY LIEUTENANT. THE BODY LAY IN REPOSE IN THE EAST ROOM OF THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY. "THE CLOSED CASKET WILL BE PUT ON PUBLIC DISPLAY TOMORROW IN THE CAPITOL ROTUNDA. | THERE IT WILL REST ON THE CATAFALQUE THAT ONCE BORE THE BODY. OF ANOTHER ASSASSINATED PRESIDENT--~ABRAHAM LINCOLN. (WASHINGTON =-THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE PAYING ‘n FINAL: HOMAGE nyTO: PRESIDENT JOHN FITZGERALD -KENA DY. > hows HIS BODY LIES IN A CASKET IN. THE CAPITOL OF THE ROTUNDA. THOUSANDS OF MOURNFUL PEOPLE ARE FILING PAST THE FLAG-DRAPED COFFIN, THEIR FACES LINED WITH GRIEF, . SOME VEEP. ‘MRS. JACQUELINE KENNEDY AND HER THC CHILDREN RODE BEHIND THE CAISSON BEARING THE PRESIDENT'S BODY FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TO THE CAPITOL.. , | SIX WHITE HORSES PULLED THE BLACK-DRAPED. CAISSON IN THE. SORRCUFUL PROCESSION THROUGH WASHINGTON. THOUSANDS OF MOURNERS “LINED THE STREETS, TEARS ACROSS THEIR FACES. THE MUFFLED DRUM BEAT OUT GRIN THROBS. V JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY WOULD HAVE BEEN PROUD OF “IIS WIFE AND CHILDREN TODAY. THEY HEARD WITH DIGNITY AND ELEGANCE THE TRIBUTES TO HIN | AS A MAN AND TO HIS WORK DURING CEREMONIES IN THE ROTUNDA OF THE -CAPITAL. THE 34-YEAR- OLD WIDOW WORE A BLACK SUIT WITH A BLACK LACE -MANTILLA OVER HER DARK HAIR. HER MAKEUP WAS DEEPER THAN USUAL, PROBABLY TO HIDE TEAR STAINS. THE TEAR MARKS SHOWED ANYWAY. DURING THE EULOGIES, JOHN, JUNIOR, WILL WILL BE THREE TOMORROW, BECAME RESTLESS AND VAS LED AWAY BY A NAVY AIDE. BUT THE BOY HAD SAT QUIETLY THROUGH THE CEREMONIES BEFORE THE .SULOGY BEGAN. oh ; CAROLINE STAYED WITH HER MOTHER WHILE TRIBUTES WERE GIVEN TO HER FATHER. THEN MRS, KENNEDY ROSE AND WITH CAROLINE IN HAND, WALKED OVER TO THE COFFIN. | » A HUSH SWEPT. THE ROTUNDA. ) ‘In A SADE FAREWELL, WITH CAROLINE- WATCHING, JACQUELINE . YENNEDY KISSED THE FLAG COVERING THE COFFIN OF THE MAN SHE ALTERNATELY’ CALLED "JACK" AND. "THE PRESIDENT." (DALLAS)--THE ACCUSED ASSASSIN: OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY WAS HIMSELF SHOT AND KILLED TODAY BY: A SELF-APPOINTED EXCUTIONER. A 42-YEAR-OLD STRIPTEASE CLUB OWNER IDENTIFIED 3y POLICE AS JACK RUBY OCCUPIED THE STAGE AS THE BIZARRE SEQUENCE: oF EVENTS UNFOLDED LIVE BEFORE RADIO AND TELEVISION AUDIENCES, HE BOLTED THROUGH A HEAVY. POLICE GUARD IN THE BASEMENT: OF THE CITY" HALL~AS -OSWALD-WAS-BEING MOVED. TO °THE- MAXIMUM. ~. SECURITY COUNTY JAIL, , : , , , RUBY. CURSED OSWALD, HELD A 438 CALIBER PISTOL INCHES. FROM THE PRISONER, AND SQUEEZED THE TRIGGER, OSWALD*S FACE TURNED ASHEN, | ME CLUTCHED AT! HIS CHEST AND TOPPLED SLOWLY To THE FLOOR WITHOUT SAYING A WORD. /POLICE POUNCED ON RUBY AND TOOK HIM TO A FIFTH FLOOR CELL. HE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH. MURDER. | OSWALD WAS RUSHED BY AMBULANCE To PARKLAND HOSPITAL AND INTO A ROOM TEN FEET FROM WHERE PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED, DOCTORS WORKED ON HIM IN MUCH THE SAME wuy THEY TRIED TO SAVE HE PRESIDENT'S LIFE FRIDAY, THEY WERE JUST AS UNSUCCESSFUL, OSWALD WAS TAKEN TO AN OPERATING Roo WHERE HE DIED (AT 2207 P-M CEST) AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME OF DAY AR. KENNED ¥* DIED FRIDAY. . , ) OSWALD DIED CLAINING HE DID NCT ASSASSINATE THE PRESIDEN IT. CUS DALLAS POLICE SAY THEY HAVE THE EVIDENCE TO CONVICT HIM, THEIR "PROOF" HAS NOT BEEN DIVULGED, | , AND IT MAY NEVER BE. “ DALLAS HOMICIDE CHIEF WILL FRIT? SAID GRIMLY AFTER THE ALLEGED ASSASSIN'S DEATH THAT THE OSWALD CASE Is Nov "CLOSED." SR4O8PCS 11/24 RARSI THE SIXTH NORTH CAROLINA NEWS IN BREIF -9- (WASHINGT ON)=-GOVERNOR AND MRS. SANFORD YERE AMOUNG A HOST OF DIGNITARIES WHO PAID THEIR LAST RESPECTS TO LATE PRESIDENT KENNEDY IN -MASHINGTON TODAY. THE GOVERNOR AND HIS WIFE PLANNED TO REMAIN IN WASHINGTON FOR THE PRESIDENT'S FUNERAL MONDAY, BEFORE LEAVING RALEIGH, SANFORD SCRAPPED HIS NEXT WEEK'S SCHEDULE, SAYIQ'. HE WOULD PLAY IT BY.EAR TO FIT IN. APPOINTMENTS AND. CONFERENCES. Wes -0- | oh | : BEFORE TRAVELING TO WASHINGTON, SANFORD URGED ALL BUSINESSES AND DINDUSTRIES IN NORTH CAROLINA TO OBSERVE AN HOUR OF MOURNING MONDAY DURING THE. HOUR OF THE PRESIDENT*S FUNERAL SERVICES. HIS REQUEST... SECONDED BY THE NORTH CAROLINA MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION. « «WAS EXPECTED TO BE CONPLIED WITH ALMOST UNANIMOUSLY. ‘STATE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS PLAN TO CHARTER A BUS TO TAKE TAR HEEL PARTY LEADERS TO THE FUNERAL SERVICES IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL. a a | LATE NEWS FROM UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL! (EDITORS: PLEASE INSERT SUB ‘OSWALD, UPR59, HERE, INSERTS ARE UPR6O AND 64.) _ 7O- : | (EDITORS: PLEASE INCORPORATE UPRS5S AND 67 BULLETIN AND ADD, THE TRANSFER OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S BODY, IN THE MAIN STORY UPCOMING, ) THE MOURNERS STOOD STILENTLY, MANY LOOKING TRANSFIXED AT THE PROCESSION | | A WOMAN BUNDLED IN A BLACK WOOL SCARF SAID OF THE PRESIDENT..."I LOVE HIM DEARLY. I GOT NO MORE TEARS TO CRY." SHE ADDED, "NE DID SO_ MUCH GOOD. HE ENJOYED EVERYONE." A MAN WHO SAID HE WAS A SCHOOLTEACHER COMMENTED, "I REALLY ADMIRED THE PRESIDENT, I WANTED TO BE NEARBY." “A STUDENT.SAID, "I JUST CAME TO SHOW THAT PEOPLE CARED." A COUPLE FROM NEW YORK CITY SAID, "WE JUST WANTED TO SHOW OUR RESPECT." THE PROCESSION IS MOVING DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AND CONSTITUTION AVENUES TO THE CAPITOL, THE ROUTE IS LINED WITH MILITARY GUARDS. LEADING THE CORTEGE IS A DETACHMENT OF POLICEMEN, FOLLOWED BY ORUMMES FROM THE ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE, MARINE CORPS, AND THE COAST GUARD. - NEXT IN THE PROCESSION IS A UNIT: OF NAVY ENLISTED MEN AND A SPECIAL HONOR GUARD OF SENIOR MILITARY OFFICERS HEADED BY GENERAL MAXWELL TAYLOR. } A SOLDIER CARRYING THE STARS AND STRIPES FOLLOWS THEM. THE CAISSON BEARING THE PRESIDENT'S CASKET IS. DRAWN BY SEVEN GRAY HORSES. TWENTY MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES FLANK THE CAISSON. ‘A RIDERLESS HORSE LED BY A SOLDIER FOLLOWS THE CAISSON. THE FULLY SADDLED HORSE HAS BOOTS REVERSED IN THE STIRRUPS AS A SIGN OF GRIEF FOR THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. ae BEHIND THE HORSE, A SINGLE SAILOR CARRIES THE PRESIDENT'S FLAG. MORE VR1225PCS11/24 (HYANNIS PORT)---MRS. ROSE KENNEDY PRAYED THROUCH ‘TWO MASSES THIS MORNING AT THE WHITE CLAPBOARD CATHOLIC CHURCH THAT JOHN - FITZGERALD KENNEDY ATTENDED AS A BOY AND WHEN HE WAS HOME FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. : SITTING WITH HER IN THE VESTRY OF THE ST. FRANCIS XAVIER CHURCH AT ONE SERVICE WAS SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY AND A MARRIED SITER OF THE LATE PRESIDENT, MRS. EUNICE SHRIVER. ONE SEAT INA SIDE CHAPEL WAS EMPTY. IT WAS ONE NORMALLY (CCUPIED BY THE PRESIDENT. IT WAS A SEAT DEDICATED TO THE LATE PRESIDENT'S BROTHER, JOSEPH KENNEDY y JUNIOR, WHO WAS KILLED IN WORLD WAR TWO, MONSIGNOR LEONARD DALEY NOTED THE EMPTINESS AS PERNAPS BEING SYMBOLIC OF THE HEARTFELT EMPTINESS OF A MOURNING MATION. “"seeIT IS EMPTY," SAID MONSIGNOR DALEY. "WE LIKE.TO THINK OF HIM IN THE DAYS BEFORE HE BECAME PRESIDENT AND WORSHIPED AT THIS ALTAR." | SOBS WERE AUDIBLE AMONG THE CONGREGATION. | | "IN THE END HE GAVE HIS LIFE TO ALL," THE PRIEST SAID. "TO THE FINAL MOMENT OF HIS LIFE, HE WAS DEDICATED TO PEACE AND THE QUALITY TO ALL MEN."