The Ledger and Times, November 22, 1963
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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1963 • 21, Selected As A Rest MI Round Kenructy Community Newspaper In The Afternoon God Daily Newspaper We For Murray and • Trust Calloway County United Press International IN OUR 84th YEAR Murray, Ky., Friday Afternoon, November 22, 1963 MURRAY POPULATION 10, 100 Vol. LXXXIV No. 277 • • KENNEDYJohn Gregory SHOT 'Three Charged Speaker For Bullet From Assassins In Cattle Theft Rotary Club Gun Kills The President John Gregory of the Texas Gas • Transmission Company, Owensboro, 9 Three Murray State College stu- 'dtioah Livestock Company at Smith- was the speaker yesterday at the dents have hem charged with cattle land in Livingston Cotuity Murray Rotary Club He was intro- stealing in the court of Judge Rob- According to affidavits in the of- duced Richard who was in While by Tuck On Texas Tour ert U Miller Worth of the cattle is fice of Judge Miller the three took charge of the program. repotted as $1019 80 a truck owned by Dewey Parks, Mr. Gregory devoted most of his Eddy T McDermott James W drove to Murray Livestock Com- talk to the production of natural gas Rifle Found Gibson III and Joe Wright. all of pany, loaded the nine head of cattle and showed some slides of an off Governor Marshall County. have been charged In the truck operation_ explain- Connally Also Hit and sold them at shore drilling He DALLAS, Tex. ,171V - Police found with taking nine head t cattle Smithland. The truck was then re- ed many of the difficulties en- a rifle with a telescopic sight, three I from the Murray Livestock Com- turned to where Mr. Parks had left countered in off shore drilling and spent shells lying nearby, in an of- pany and selling them at the Pa. it of the great pressures involved As fice building after the assassination President Is Cut Down • The cattle were placed In a pen He told the Rotarians that ample of President Kennedy. • at the Peduciatt LtvestOck Company Continued on Page 2) The Dallas sheriff's department DALLAS (UPI) — President (Cstallaisd us rage 2) identified the rifle as a 7.65 Mauser. Kennedy and Gov. John H. Connallly of Texa'; were Three Trucks The Italian-made rifle had one shell ert down by an assassin's bullets as in the chamber. they tow-el oowntowo Pans- in an onen automobile today. County Man The rifle was found in a staircase The President. his limp body cradled in the arm. of his Are Hit By Weather on the 5th floor of the building The wife, was rushed to Parkland Hospital. The governor also was assailant had been in the building taken to Parkland. some Report Passes Away time and had been eating fried At 12:50 p.m.. CST. :listing While House Seci:etsrv *m- chicken. Vandalism u iln dee Preasoret•pe ado ea i enial Kildnft was #.-ked whether the Prtipent was dead. have no SPECIAL MASS word nor " Kilduff rep..et.* High Yesterday 74" This Morning iCongrUsthsn Jim Wrirht of Fort Worth said both Ken- Low Yesterday 61' A special mass will be offered for nedy and Connally were seriously wounded but were alive. 7:15 Today 64 Vanda.Ls caused great damage laat Eighty-three year old Jeff Massey President Kennedy at St. Leo's Ca- Clint Hill, a Secret Service agent assigned to Mr. Kennedy, night to three trucks owned by the tholic ('hurch at 7:00 o'clock Satur- said "he's dead," as the President was Kentucky Laker 7 a. m 3542 up of Murray Route One died suddenly lifted from the rear of Paschall Truck Lines The trucks. da) morning. a White 0 1: below dam 302 4 no change. this morning at seven o'clock at House touring car, the famous "bubbletop" from used for hauling a nd spreading narkley Dam 302.6 up 0.2 ft. his home He was a member of the Washington. He was rushed to an emergency room in the hos- lime, were rendered Inoperable by EXCHANGE CLOSES Sunset 4:43, sunrise 6:43. First Baptist Church. John F. Kennedy pital. the vandals The deceased is survived by his - A sharp knife NEW YORK age - The New was used to cut the KENTUCKY. wife. Mrs. Lola Barton Massey; one Mostly cloudy and Exchange Other White House officials were Johnson, who now becomes Presi- seats to ribbons in the three trucks. , daughter, Mrs. Pauline Oglesby of York Stock closed oper- warm Friday with exittered showers ations in doubt as the corridors of the dent 'of the United States, was in Wires were pulled from the gen- Warren, Mich.: one son. E'verett today after word of the mainly went. High 66 to 74. Cloudy assassination hospital erupted in pandemonium. a car behind the, Kennedy's and erator. battery cable cut, wires putt- Massey, 221 South Ilth Street. Mur- against President with showers and continued warm Kennedy. The incident occurred just east Connallys. He rushed to the hos- ied from the ignition and lights, and ray: one sister. Mrs Julie Dunlap Friday night. Low in 50s Showers of a triple underpass facing a park pital and was whisked away by heater hoses cut of Hot Springs. Ark.: one half- wo Countians likely Saturday and cooler west. - in downtown Dallas. Secret Eervicernen His whereabouts Air was let out of the tires on the sister. Mrs. Girdle Forrest Parts. of were kept secret. three trucks and gas tank caps were Tenn., t w o half-brothers, Charlie Reporters about five car lengths Throughout the trip. when Ken- removed and taken off Brake cables BAKE SALE and Roy Ma-ssey of Bruceton. Tenn.; Accidents Are behind the chief executive heard nedy and Johnson had been in the were also severed. - four grandchildren; two great grand what sounded like three bursts of same motorcade they have ridden Cecil Paschall. owner of the firm A bake sale will held • gunfire. be by the children. Die in In Accident separate cars as an obvious se- indicated that he did not know who Murray Assembly No 19 Order of Funeral services are incomplete Reported In curity measure. The Kennedys had was responsible for the vicious van- the Rainbow for Girls Saturday. but friends may call at the Max H. dalism The trucks are up car quickly unlimbered their au- International November 23, starting at 8:30 A.m . Churchill Funeral Home until the Two Calloway Coulay men have, to reparts. Mr. Cunningham was a (Continued on Page 2) trucks and are used to spread tomatic rifles. lime in front of Diuguld's Store. Cakes, hour of the service. died as a result ot a two car acci- pawenger in the .1959 four door on farms City Thursday The bubble top of the president's • in the area. cookies, and brownies will be sold. dent that occurred Thursday about Mercury driven by Wes Fulton of car was down. * 6 p.m in front of the home of one Penny that • was reportedly going Firemen Answer Aggots drew their pistols. but the It nniversary of the victims. Homer G. Redford west en the bl-cktop road and Miss Jean Gibbs of Murray Route damage was done. Calls Thursday who lived abOtit one-half mile east ',led with the 1953 Ford, two d One and Mrs. Ruth Jewel of 407 N. The President was slumped over Robert Rudie Appear of Kirksey. The other victim -was maroon with a 12th Street were injured in a three Will On white top, driven in the backseat of the car, face Grover Cumaingham Who lived the by Mr. Radford. The extent of the car collision which occurred on East Dinner Held The Murray Fire Department an- down. Connally lay on the floor of first house east of the Union Grove injuries of Mr. Fulton has not been Main Street at the Murray Manu- swered two calls last night. the rear seat. Monday Church of Christ near Penny. ascertained, but he is a patient at lecturing Company parking lot in- For Violin Concert It was impossible to tell at once About miletnight the firemen were has tersection ThThursday By It not been determined how the Murray Hospital. Fulton about 4 ig&pw is em- Pm- where Kennedy was hit Club called to the Capitol Theatre where but bullet the accident occurred, but according ployed at the Murray Manufactur- according to the Murray Police De- a motor ARS reported to be on fire wounds in Connally.'s chest were ing Co. partment. in, the back part of the building. plainly visible, indicating the gun- Others involved in the accident fire might Only smoke damage was reported. Kentucky State Trooper Stephen- possibly have come from were Donald Berry Hunter. 510 S. an automatic The 36th birthday celebration of The firemen were called to 1513 son said apparently it was "almost weapon. Jim McNeely 16th Street, driving a 1962 Chev- the Business and Professional Wom- There were three loud bursts. Sycamore Street last night about a head-on collision" from the facta rolet.