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Vol. XLVIII 20·~ CINCINNATI, OHIO, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1963 TEN CENTS No. 11

Dallas Sni'per Mortally Wounds Kennedy; Leftist Assassin Slain As Nation Watches ' Execution·er Arrested; ' Johnson Tal'-es Office

DALLAS-John Fitzgerald Kt>nnedy, the 35th Pr0sident of the United States, was shot and killed l''riday in Dallu.• by a sniper's bullet. His slayer·. 2-!-year-old Lee Harvey Oswalcl, fell preY, to a self-appointed executioner's bullet ·P) hours later. A mour·ning nation witnessecl Oswald's nturtler over a livP national television broadcast. The 4G-year-old Chief l!Jxecutive was parading in • single .38 caliber cevolv~r shot fired by Dallas slripl~a~c ni~htdu~ OIJcralor Jack Ruby, who was described as a "hot-lcrntJcrcd devotee.. of Ute slain Pl'eliident. JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY (Con~inucd on pa&e I) ...eTwe CINCINNATI, OHIO, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 19G

•verilas Vos Liberabil" llDITOR-IR-CBIIIP ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Bo'llert A. Ryan, lr., 'II MANAGING EDITOR .•• ••••. ••• •••• ••••• ••• •••• •• ••••••. Dawtd W. Cook, 'II JIUSINESS MANAGER •••••• , ••••••••••. , ...... ••.•...•.. .John .Jctrre, '36 ASSOCIATE EDITORS, •••••••••• , •••••••. Carole Zerhuaen, lila Belaelmann, 'I' · Hugh Gardiner, '86 ASSISTANT MAKE-UP EDITORS ..••••..•••. lack lleJ'er, '86; Dan Gardner, '87 BPORTS EDITOR •.•••••••..•••••• , ••••.•.....•••..•• , •. Ken Cztlllnger, 'I' . COLUMNISTS •••••• ,,, ••••.••••••••. Fred Bernstein, 'I'; Dick Grupenhotr, '61 ai:PORTERS. , , , , • , • , , •• Bill Keel<, 88; Dick Grupenhotr, '68; Dick Belmlel<, 'It; John Lutz, '6t; .John Colllna '88; Gene Connell, ·eo; Andy Interdonato, ·&&; Tom Kitch, '68; lUll Kramer! '86; .John Sclantarelll, '66; JerfJ' Stenger, '66 · Bob A bert, '67; Jim Alerdlng, '67; Mike Amorlni, '67; .Tim Barrot, '67; Dave Bird, '67; Jack Esselman, '67; T. L. Gra­ vell•, '67; Jim Jurgens, '67; TonJ'Lane, '67; Sam•Jioore, '67; Frank Sheppard, '67; Charlie Walker, '67; .Terr,. Walter, '67; Bob Weier nan, '67; TonJ' Weat, '67. IIPORTS WRITERS ..•• , ••••••.•••• , ••••••••• Pat Dunne. '88; Pete Muceus, '117 CHIEF ROUSTABOUT ...... ,,,.,, ...... , •..••.•..••. NanCJ' Bigglna CIRCULATION DIRECTOR ••• ,.,,,,,.,,,,, •• ,., •••• , .• Daniel A. llecblq, 'Gr FACULTY ADVISQR .....••••••• ,,,.,,, ••• , ••••. Rev. 'l'hom&l 0 8ava1e, 8.1, Pullllahe4 weelrlJ' durinl the 1chooJ J'IU ezeept dnrinl 'l'acatton 11erioda 'IIJ' Zavler Unl'l'erslty, HamUton Count,., Evanston, Cincinnati 7, Ohio, S2.00 per J'e&r. Entered aa second elaas matter October t, 19tll at the Poet Olllce at · · ClnchJnatt, Ollto nuder the Act of Marcil 3, 1179. Editorial opinions expressed in this paper arc the opinion& of the editor~ a10!JP.. 'l'hPy tlo not necc,.nrily expreoa the opinions or the official• of Xnvier Un>vers1ty llor or the otudeut body of Xavier taken ao n whole, unlcos opeeificnlly Rtntctl, Opinion& or columni•to are fnfirely their own nnd need DOt repreoen~ th11 epinioo ol &l•e etlitorinl board or ol any member &hereof. Bob Ryan ,.., Below The Masthead ~\ His Last ·Full Measure Of Devotion • • •

Less than a week ago, · newspapers printed a By BOB RYAN of Senator Goldwater. But the stings did not leave News Editor-in-Chief photograph of a little boy peeking out from under a lasting hurt, not for them or anyone else. Presi­ John Fitzgerald Kennedy's leathery face broke into a wide grin a keyhole desk. His father was smi1ing. dent Kennedy was a man of good humor, without as he stepped off the plane, in the wrong state at the wrong time, It is all gone now. Only the little boy, hid some­ malice; in this way, as in ·so many, he fit to per­ that brisk October night four years ago. where to spare him sorrows beyond his years, only fection what we think of as our national character, Abandoning political tradition, he was 13 hours early and 23 miles the little boy smiles and plays any more. The rest without sacrificing an'y of his own individuality­ distant from the spot where the platforms, the bandstands, the of us hide our grief or show it, depending on our and is not this itself one of the signs of a healthy official gl'ceters, .the provincial press, and the crowds were sup­ natures; for we mourn much more than a politician and united nation, or man? posed to be. or administrator. Cowardly bullets have always and And not even a Mark Twain could have been a But he smiled just the same. It didn't seem to matter to the wi11 always strike down the chief man in a state; more obvious binding of such diverse elements as Senator that there was only a corporal's guard of reporters on hand and the nations mourn, as men mourn the loss of the idealism that led to the formation of the Peace to meet him; for halfway down the Lunken runway, held back by a what can be replaced-a faithful servant, perhaps, Corps, for instance, or the Alliance for Progress, bevy of plainsclothesmen and a cyclone fence, a small but impas­ or a fair overseer. and the hard-headed American practicality that led liQned a capella chorus of shivering teen-agers chanted: "We love But we mourn, Americans, a man who was not him to the presidency in the first place. )'ou, John." merely the chief of an \mpersonal and distant Idealism and practicality were restless bedfel­ It w:.~s with .!."Orne apprehension that this writer-then even more government-if this were so, we should have not lows; but practicality often enough implemented a cub than today-approached that strappingc statesman. Until those mourned at all-but rather a man who, because of moments, ·he seemed ·to be more a line on a wire machine-a hasty what in another would have remained well-meant his office and despite it, summarized in his frail day-dreams, so that we look at Viet Nam on the rewrite job-than an important national news personality to be humanity the word American. jostled with for an original story. ' one hand; and the Peace Corps on the other, and President Kennedy, as chief of state, was legally But more discomforting was the thought of confronting this ex­ see that they sprang both from a common source. the embodiment of the American nation. But he Jlerienced newsmaker alone. 'l'here were no veterans around upon Not now-it is not for us now to call to mind, was something other than a lawyer's phrase--as whom a greenhorn newsman could rely if he should mangle a quote in exacting detail, the events for good or ill for president, he gave us n«;)t only a man who had risen CIT fail to conjure up a question or muster a printable response·. which we will remember President Kennedy, Nor through all manner of political infightings to the 1t was a lonely, anxious walk from the administration building is it for any of us to understand what happens eminence of the presidency, but also who typified to the passenger ramp of the Kennedy craft. What if he gets mad? behind the curtain of great responsibility that sep­ the American . . . ideal, dream, myth, reality­ What if he doesn't pay anyc attention at all? What if he ignores the arates the president from the people. But now, io what can we call it, the elusive goal we seek and questions? Worse--what if the deadline passes? such· a way as we can, let us call to mind the sometimes find, sometimes lose as we have now But there were no other reporters to pirate quotes from. President Kennedy we have come to know the lost it in the death of President Kennedy. There was no security at all. . President Kennedy that will live centuries. 'after And there on the ramp-ten feet away-stood the figure who This at least we do know. President Kennedy the last scholar has forgotten the statistical sum .,.ithin three weeks might be elected the 35th President of the brought to his nation more than a presidency of of his policies and legislations. And we will not 'United States. dull fatherly competence, the presidency of the be tar wrong if we remember President Kennedy A freshly angled quote might make the wire. What about the aging and successful politician, of the aging and not for his deeds, many of which were left incom­ .traft? He'd never said one way or the other. amiable amateur. Whatever we may feel on Presi­ plete, to die with the doer, but remember him for After a brief handshake, the question was fired: "If elected, dent Kennedy's political stands, we must admit what he was, more than any of our other leaders in litmat:>r Kennedy, what action will you take in regard to selective that to his office he brought a spirit of youthfulness recent time; the embodiment of the nation's will, the 8ervice?" more to be rejoiced in than criticized. reflection of the many facets that make up America He glared at the inadventant Nixon button on his interrogator's For President Kennedy was the American of -in short, the personification of what we call with lapel and instantly deadpanned: "You'll be the first to go." legend and fact. He embodied our national qualities all respect the American Dream-brought down by Somehow, in spite of, or perhaps. because of that uncomeback­ in such a way that few could feel that he was not a scum who was, in every sense of the word, un­ able, the rest of the interview seemed to be a success. The deadline one of us. What of his wealth? It sprang from a American-a complete and utter antithesis of all was met with three minutes grace. In fact, the story even made the not so distant sourc{e in the Boston slums. What of this nation, or any .civilized nation, has struggled trunk wire. his minority religion? But who of us is not in for. Not even did the coward's bullet come lrom And as that momentary walk beside the man who was cut down some way, or many ways, part of one of the inter­ short range, but faceless, from a distance--from a by a demented assassin's bullet Friday ended, there was a quality weaving fabric_ of minorities that give America a distance, the warped ideas that were to it as t>f greatness evident in his prolile that even a 19-year old Gold­ paradoxical unity? powder and spark that brought down the Presi­ waterite wearing a Nixon button could discern. Indeed, what once was somethint to laugh at­ dent-the one man who summed up what it is to I think they call it courage. those touch-football games-becomes now a sad­ be an American. dened symbol ~~ President Kennedy's youthfulness, But the bullets did not bloody the American and America's. Indeed, only two people in the his­ Dream, however much the assassin exults that he tory of the world, Greece and America, have been will cause yet a thicker screen of police and bullet­ brought forth with an innate love of play for its proof glass to be set up between the President and own sake, revelling in athletics and motivated by his people, a rare sense of sportsmanship, Over two and a half millenia so !ltrong a tie binds President Kennedy For the American Dream that brought forth and the Athenian law-giver Solon. "You Greeks all President Kennedy existed before him, and will play like children"; we Americans may consider afterwards. ourselves to be also thus' slighted by too-serious Let the mad kil~er strike at th~ highest example men, and we maY. rejoice ,in having been led by of it, and let us mourn deeply when he has suc­ a man who could join in a spirit of youthfulness, a ceeded, and slutted his sick soul on the fruita of youthfulness, let us pray, that we never lose. hatred tow~rds his own nation. What can we say of the President's family, that But the killer could not kill the dream that bore 10 nearly approaches the ideal of mutual love and the man. And so, on this day of mourning, our hearts d'cvotion, and blessed, over and above all this, are as one with our fellow citizens. Soon the •riel with .. ~ a picture of a woman cradeling her bus­ in our hearts will end, and slowly, and each 'of us band's bleeding bead in her lap, this springs forth: shall tum once more to his own cares; _but for the greatest tragedy of all is hers, who so soon has now we are all of one heart, mourning the Bame twice lost so much of what she loved. But · her loss. We cease from mourninl(, in, time; the man tragedy is a private one, which we also may mourn, who died-not the ideal he stood for· vacant lots but in silence. ringing to the lau1hter. of boys playin~ foOtball are And the memory of President Kennedy's ftair tor testimony that the ideal .did not die with the man. the well-turned phrase that ·could needie botb '.Teacher, is it all right for us And tor the deranl(ed •-uln and hia blackened then-,Senator Johnson in the 1980 .eonvention and soul,_we otter our Pl'87el's fw &be mere,y of God- to praT toda)'7.' lhore recently, prick throuab· the l'betoriCal awmni ill w-. .•• vust. . . . CINCINNATI, .OHIO, TUESDAY, ·NOVEMIEit 26, 1963 Pal'e Three President lfl11rdered • • • The Martyr And The Bloody Shirt By ALEX 1\lacGREGOR cians to make of Mrs. Kennedy a Perhaps in other respects the Covered With · Blood, Associate Editor-Emeritus second Mary Todd Lincoln, al­ two careers will parallel, perhapl Speculation is now rife as to though Mrs. Kennedy is surely not-Lyndon Johnson carries far just what will be the political of sterner stuft than Lincoln's more prestige and acumen intG She Stroked His. Brow consequences of the President's widow. For all of that, it is not the presidency than did his name• assassination. Some see the Dem­ too much to suppose that Attor­ sake. But a Southerner is just ·(Continued from page 1) ocratic nomination in '64 up for ney General Robert Kennedy not the sort of presidential can.. grabs; others, looking at the trag. would receive considerable grass­ didate to carry cities and indus• Oswald's end came in Parkland Hospital Sunday afternoon in an edy from a different angle, ex­ roots support if he should attempt emergency operating room 20 feet away from where his own viclim trial states for the Democrats ia pect the American people to close to secure the Democratic nomi­ 1964. died .forty-seven hours before. He had been fo~mally- charged by ranks behind leaders of modera­ nation in 1964. Trading on his ·Another possibility of history Dallas police with first degree murder counts in the slayings of the tion. A few expect extremely name, appealing to the same repeating itself exists in publie Chief Executive ·and Dallas Patrolman J. D. Tippett. hard times for extremists of bloc-voting minorities as did outcry against the assassin and an Shortly after Oswald expired, Dallas District Attorney Beary whatever persuasion, 1 eft or President Kennedy, Robert Ken. of his political stripe, Somcthini Wade announced &bat bls ftarerprlnts bad been found on· tbe rUle right, in view of the assassin's nedy cannot help but have some of a witch-hunt for alleged Con. •ed In President Kennedy's murder. Wade added that paraftla background. of his brother's luster rub otr on federate sympathizers ensuecl &es&s-;-whlcb are used. by investil'atoi"S to determine whether a sub­ Such speculation may be illum­ him, especially if he keys h.is ap­ Ject bas recently 8retl a ran-made on Oswald'i!~an.._, produced inated by the historical parallels peal, rather baldly, as one of after Lincoln's assassination; the "positive results." · - · this situation readily calls to ••Jetting me carey on my broth­ fact that McKinley's assassin wa1 an anarchist stirred up an anti• "There can be no doubt now," Wade stated, "that the dead man mind. To be sure, the more hard­ er's program." was the President's assassin." nosed of the Democratic party Red fear, often exceeding the One of the unfortunate coinci­ actual menace, that was still quite Oswald was felled by Ruby's bullet in the basement of Dallas probably regret that President Kennedy's assassin was from dences about the whole tragedy alive in the twenties. Here,· of City Hall as a heavy security guard was preparing to transfer him is that President Johnson carries course, anti-Bolsevik sentiment . via armored car to the more secluded county jail. the far-left; however unjust the guilt by association would be, the same surname as another enters in to confuse the train of He was the victim of the nation's first nationally televised Senatot• Goldwater would have pt·esident almost a century earlier. causality. homicide. been silently · smeared into ob­ This stray bit of ill-luck calls to In the present circumstances ot Ruby, who officers reported has an extensive record of police mind numerous parallels w i t h livion had the assassin been a what appears to be greater poe contacts, surmounted a four-foot barrier, plunged through a group rightist or a segregationist. The Andrew Johnson, ill-fated heir to of newsmen and detectives, and shot Oswald as Columbia Broad­ too-practical politician must re­ the Lincoln program; but some of litical m~turity on the part of the casting System television cameras were feeding a "live" broadcast of gret not having a ready-made the parallels are not that inexact. American people, it would seera Oswald's transfer to millions of American living rooms. ..bloody. shirt" to haul out of Newspapers appearing the same unlikely that radical leftists win As Ruby pulled the trigger, he exclaimed to his victim: "You son mothballs a t election time. morning as the assassination car­ be persecuted. But . the Americaa of_.a .bitch!" The mortally wounded Oswald groaned audibly as he After all, the ·Republicans from ried Richard Nixon's astute an• people, hitherto suspicious of rad• fell to the ·floor. Policemen immediately pounced on Ruby, threw 1865 on made good.· use of it, alysis that the Democrats might icals of whatever persua.sion, now him to the ftoor, and carted him ·oft to an· interrogation room former17 constantly reminding the elec- very well try to dump Johnson have all the more reason to de• occupied by Oswald, one ftoor above. . torate that it was a Copperhead in 1964, if it looked as if he would spise and fear the extremist. The Minutes after Oswald's death, detectives charged Ruby with Democrat who murdered Presi­ be a liability to the ticket. l'ol' Left will suffer, but the Right caa ftrst degree murder. · dent Lincoln. both Johnsons were included to hardly be immune to getting tbe He freely admitted the premeditated nature of the act. Aside from the political stigma s t r e n g t h e n · a predominantlT image of its mirror-image ~x· At the time of the assassination, President Johnson was also in attached to anyone whose views Northern-oriented ticket with a tremist twins transferred to it. the cavalcade but several cars behind Mr. Kennedy's. bear any resemblance, however small concession to Southern We may look for a shift to the Crowds had jammed the Dallas streets. Secret servicemen ran slight, to the assassin's, another sentiment. Thus it happens that moderate, centrist position on the alongside the President's car. But the assassin struck too swiftly­ facet of the "martyr president" Lyndon Johnson is the first South· part of those who now see, per• . too tt·eacherously for anyone to prevent it. myth, is likely to be made to ern-born-bred politician since haps for the first time, the hor• !\Irs. Kennedy had reportedly just leaned close to her husband and sparkle in future months. Look Andrew Johnson to hold the office rible fruits that extremism call :said "You can't say Dallas wasn't friendly." Then the shots rang out. for attempts by cynical politi- of president. bear. , ... A man standing close to the car said, "The President was wavinc to the crowd--emilin~. The first shot hit him and that awful look came across his face." He Cursed Him e e e Then Fired Once: :1\lr. Kennedy fell sideways, his face toward the seat. Doctors at the hospital said one bullet apparently tore through the back of .. his head and throat • Governor Connally fell forward. Mrs. Connally got down on her Oswald Moaned., The Crowd Cheered . , knees beside him. Lee Harvey Oswald, accused cell in the City Hall Building. Secret Servicemen unholstered automatic rifles but no more shots assassin of Presid£>nt Kennedy, An ambulance rushed Oswald, were fired. was himself shot and killed Sun· a pro - Communist, pro - Castro Mrs. Kennedy, her bright pink wool suit spattered with blood, day by a self-appointed execu­ ex-Marine, to Parkland Mem­ stroked her husband's brow as the car raced for the hospital. At the tioner who carried out his ven• orial within 10 minutes. hospital, she clung to her dying husband and helped lift him· on a geance in full view of millions There, 12 physicians went tG stretcher. of grieving A m e r i c a n s who work trying to keep the accusecl A CATHOLIC PRIEST was summoned and administered the watched it all on television. assassin alive. One of them, Dr. Last Rites of the Roman Catholic Church. Oswald, 24, manacled to one Malcolm 0. Perry, said Oswalcl Only the doetoi"S were wltb the President when he died. of the scores of police officers was "lethally injured" when he Within a short time after his death, a bronze casket was brought guarding him for a scheduled arrived at the facility's emeJ­ to the hospital and placed in a white hearse. transfer from city jail to a maxi­ gency room. Mrs. Kennedy was helped into the hearse and rode to the airport mum. security jail, was fatally The single bullet p a s s ed 'beside the casket. There the casket was placed aboard the presi­ shot below the heart by a single through his spleen, pancreas. dential plane for the sad return to the nation's capital. .38 caliber bullet from a nickel· aorta, kidney and liver, causinl It was in the forward compartment of the plane that Johnson plated, snub-nose revolver. what the doctors said was "a 1ook the oath of office.· massive injury to organs and He was killed by Jack Ruby, Mrs. Kennedy stood by his side. massive loss of blood." After taking the oath;· Johnson embraced Mrs. Kennedy to 52, operator of a Dallas--strip• tease nightclub and an ardent Oswald was ftnt taken to a comfort her. room in &he hospital c a II e d He then embraced ·his wife, Ladybird, who became the new First admirer of the slain John Fitz­ gerald Kennedy.· · "Trauma No. 2," just 10 feet Lady. The plane left immediately for Washington. CASTROITE OSWALD from "Trauma No. 1," In whicll AT THE SCENE OF THE AMBUSH, Secret Servicemen searched Ruby, wearing a wide brim hat and natty b r own suit, Heavu security /utile •• • Kennedy succumbed after belnr ·· an the nearby buildings, and soon came across the rifle. shot from ambush with Texas At about the same time, police received a phone call from the slipped through an army of se­ curity guards shortly b e fore table at Parkland Memorial Hos­ Gov. Johit Connally-who Is re• eashier of the Texas Theater. The call said a man had run into the pital, where Kennedy died Fri­ covering from chest and shoul• movie house looking as if someone were chasing him. 11:30 a.m. CST, (12:30 p.m. EST) and confronted the a c c u s e d day from bullet wounds of the der wounds in the same llos­ Dallas policemen rushed into the theater. According to the police, brain and throat. pital. officers Tippit and M. N. MacDonald rushed the suspect-who turned slayer of the nation's 35th Presi­ Oswald's heart stopped durinl out to be Oswald-They captured him after a fight in which Tippit dent.· "I couldn't help it," the "hot­ surgery at the hospital. Blood was killed. tempered" Ruby told his weep­ ing sister, Mrs. Eva L. Grant, ann fluids were administered Police said Oswald denied owning the rifle known to be the who visited him Sunday after and the doctors attlolched an elee­ '' muJ;"der weapon. Oswald was married to a Russian woman who does he was charged with Oswald's tronic "Pacemaker" machine to . , , : not speak English. They had two children. · murder. the dying man's heart. He utter­ Followinl' Oswald's slaylnr, persistent rumors sal'rested that tile The shooting was seen by ed no last words, but was heard ~econd kllllnc may have been part of a larcer plot and that Ruby to groan occasionally during the · · and his victim aomebow were linked In the murder of the Presldeat. millions throughout the United :' .. ,. surgery. District Attorney Wade, however, discounted the reports, stating States who sat stunned in their that he had "no evidence to support such a theory. As far as we living rooms as "live" television A ebeer was beard from one ; ·. are concerned; · the case of President Kennedy's assassination is cameras recorded for history the ~eetlon ol tbe basement when II closed," he said. · fatal shooting of a man whose had beeome obvaOaa thai Oswall FBI Readqaarten In Wublnrton had a difterent Idea. A apoka• name will live in infamy. had been abo&. •an said It does not eo1111lder It a closed chapter In American hla. At the same Instant, aerou the The doctors did to OswaN ... ,.torr just because Oswald wu killed. "We will not eo1111ider tbe ease nation to the Northeast, a 10lemn what· they did to the strickea ,elosed until we have obtained all tbe evidence we ean," he promised. eortel'e wu bearlnl' &be body of President. : Governor Connally was in surgery for four hours before being Kennedy throuch the streeta or '!'hey opened his throat ill a .,, . ·reported in satisfactory condition. EXECUTIONER RUBY Washlncton, lined bJ' thousands tracheotomy to ease breathint. · The Governor's wife, Mrs. Nellie Connally, said she thought that "l couldn't help it •••" of the tear-stained faces of his They massaged the heart, al­ , . , the President was struck by the first bullet. She said, "Jackie grabbed I e II ow Americans. The late though the President's chest waa . her husband and I grabbed John and we both ducked down in the "You 10il or a bitch," he shout· President wiU be aiven a hero's not opened. They administerecl .... ,car." ed, ftrlnr &be slncle shot which burial tomorrow In Arlln1&on blood and fluids intra-venously. , . , . Friends said that, at the time, Mrs. Kennedy's main feeling wa1 doctors said pierced Oswald's National Cemeter,.. ·B~t they did not have the look .... that she wanted. to return to her. children. Yl&al orraaa. Ruby, portly and baldint, wu of stunned sadness today whieb ,. . John 1'. Kennedy--the. ftrst Roman Catholic ever to gain the Less than two hours late.-, at QUickly subdued by eight polioe they showed in announcing Kell• ·'·': efttce of President-served ·a• Chief Executive for two years, ten 1:07 p.m. CST (2:07 p.m. EST), officers after the shooting. He nedy's death juat ,., houri prt. Dntb. and 'two da¥a. . . O.wald 187 dead on an operatiq wu whisked to a Afth aoor jail to Oawald'" ...... CINCINNAn, OHIO, TUESDAY, NOVIMIR 21, 1M

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Forelg• Re•eti.. To Slaging: 'The Stalins Die In Bed'

This is how the world reacted ln London, Queen Elizabeth "Deep and strong sympath~· is tD the assassination of Presi­ sent messages of condolence to felt in all Holland, both for the dent John F. Kennedy in Dallas, the Kennedy family as well as Arner·ican people and President Texas, Frida;r: to the new president, Lyndon Kennedy." A commentator for Moscow Johnson. The Queen announced In Holland, radio bulletinl Radio told his listeners in mourn­ that the court or St. James will were heard in greatest shock. ful tones: "It is said he has been go in mourning for one week. The news was given at once tG murdered by the extreme right Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas­ Queen Juliana. wing elements." Home told a nationwide British "My God," said a spokesman At the Vatican, Pope P~ul the television audience, "the fright­ at the foreign office. "How could Sixth was reported to have gone ful deed that ended President such a thing have hapt>ened'." to his private chapel immediate­ Kennedy's young life should ded­ Bt'itain is deeply shocked at IT an hearing of the tragedy. icate the wodd anew to his the death of President Kennedy, German radio stations broad­ ideals." These reactions from persons on eut the event in cold, curt sen­ A London newspaper (Daily the downtown streets or Lon• k!nces as details were received. Herald) could not conceal trace don- And an armed forces worker, of bitterness over the death of From a lawyer: "I can't be• broadcasting to Amet'ican troopS President Kennedy "the Stalins tie\·e it ... it's the worst thing throughout Europe, was unmis­ or the world die in bed," the that could happen. He's a great takeabl;r sobbing as he read the papet· said, "it is the Lincolns friend of this country." ! ' report. and the Kennedys who are shot From a secretary: "Oh. no! It The· Soviet Union learned of down." can't be true. Who would pos• President Kennedy's death with In Ireland, the ancestral home - sibly want to do it?" this announcement over Moscow of the Kennedys, a great wave From a meat packet·: "Oh mF ; . I Radio: "Just now it is officially of son·ow welled across the land. Goo. I can't believe it." I announced that President Ken­ An old Irish woman in Dublin ned:r has passed away. It is sup­ echoed the world's shock at the posed that the murder was done assassination. "Oh, my God,'' she Elder Kennedy Watches by persons of the extreme right wept, "not Jack Kennedy." Funeral On Television wing element." In Berlin some SO-thousand HYANNIS P 0 R T , MASSA­ The Shots Rocked· The Globe Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush­ West Berliners m o u r ned the CHUSETTS.- The patriarch of chev was believed to have been the Kennedy !amity - Former A London bobby pauses from his duties to read of President death of President John Ken­ in South Russia, near the Black Ambassaclor Joseph P. Kenne~ly Kennedy's assassination- in a speciai edition of the London Daily nedy in a torchlight parade in Sea_ coast, when Moscow got the watched the funeral of his slain Sketch, British Prime Minister Home addres.sed his country on · front of City Hall. news of President Kennedy's son on television Monday._ the tragedy as telegrams poured in to Washington. ' Five months ago, &he late Pres­ death. Ident visited their cliy and said The 75-year-old Kennedy, still Sources assumed that Khrush­ &he proudest boast anyone in the recuperating from a stroke two chev was informed or the assas­ free world could make was • . • years ago, later was d riven Xavier Faculty Stunned By sination by way of an internal "I am a Berliner." Mr. Kennedy through nearby Hyannis Port, "hot line" circuit. said he and all free mea were on Cape Cod where he noted Sources say Soviet Premier Berlinen. most activity halted in respect News Of Dallas Tragedy Khrushchev has ordered For­ for the late Chief Executive: •y liM HEISELMt\NN eign Minister Andrei Gromyko Mayor Willy Brandt of West Berlin told the torchlight pa­ News Auoefate Editor ro stand by to go to Washington -Mii1illiiiiiiii!MIIIHIIHIII!IIIflllnllillltlllll'lllllllll111111111111111111111111- raders-"The fre~ world has lost j _- Xavier faculty members were apparently deeply aftected by the to attend the funeral or Presi­ dent John Fitzgerald Kennedy. its first citizen." Brandt has said Bulletin , news of President K~nnedy's death Friday. he plans to fly to the U. S. for ! ._ Very Rev. Paul .L. O'Connor,- S.J., University President, issued Earlier, G r om o :r k o pet·sonally W ASKINGTON-Texas A ttor­ Mr. Kennedy~s funeral. He asked called on U. S. Ambassabor Foy ney General Waggoner Carr has his official statement to local news media Friday afternoon: "All of West Berliners to again gather in Uii at Xaxier Univecsity are extremely shocked and saddened at the Kohler to express his condol­ announced in Washington at a ences. There was talk that front of the city halt during the news of the death ol our Pt·esident. W~ have lost a great and good services. news conference that he will con­ i. _ ., man. Our prayers ace not only for him and the repose of his soul, Khrushchev himself would make duct a court of inquiry into the a similar .visit. The official Rus­ He finished his brief speech deaths of President Kennedy and ''";' but for his family and for the new President of the United States, and Berlin's Freedom Bell tolled · sian press, Pravda, Ft'iday eulo­ his accused assassin, Lee Harvey : · Lyndon Johnson. Our pt·ayers are also for our country in this time for the American President. _of tragedy. May God ssve us all." gize" the late American. leader Oswald. as a man "working toward a Swedish Pt·ime Minister Tage LT. COL. VINCENT F. FAZIO, professor of military science at healthier international situation." Erlanger commented only: "I X-avier told newsmen: "My reaction, attitude, and feeling in this Jack Ruby. Who Shot Lee as In Rome, Pope Paul &he Slx&h don't want to say anything now." - matter Is one of stunned outrage in that we have lost one of our _. wald, accused of killing the F.::s- aald "We prayed to God &ha& &he great patriarchs of peace and probably one of the greatest lovers of At the Hague, a foreign office ident, yesterday told his attorney sacrifice of President Kennedy free men the world has ever known. I feel very strongly that at this spokesman said the Netherlands he did it on "the spur of the roo­ will ••Is& the eause defended by Government "expresses dee p particular point we Amet·icans must look to God even more now ment." Ruby's lawyer says they Jlim • • • the liberties or peoples for the faith and strength we now need even more than ever to felt horror about the terrible at- will plead temporary insanity. anll peace Ia the world." eon~inue our areat life in democracy and' freedom and to foster 'the tack on President -Kennedy." -!ttllllllllltlltlfi-IIIKII!IIIIIIIHIIII•III!IIKIIIIII!IIIIIIIK• requirements for assistance to the free world. I feel deeply that we 1hould all join in pt·ayer for the repose of our departed great leader." Stttdetat Beaetfon Jlere: '. DR. JOHN J. WBEALEN, asso- '. ciate professor of history, describ­ that: "Like all Americans, I am How .Could It Happen In America? ed his reaction as "one ·of shock­ deeply shocked by the assassina­ not. only, he added, "because we tion of our belov€d President. have lost a young and vigorous By DAVE COOK prisecl. "I wM at a 1- tor words, But Senior Jim Pelikan, not Because of his closeness . to the quite so optimistic, commented President, . but also because we News Mana&'IDI' Editor at tint," be said, "I &bourbt &be American people, most of us feel ehanee ot bia ai8UIIlaailon waa tersely, "When-ever you lose a have a country where we have a. Disbelief was the fit·st reaction his death .as a great personal loss. ,-realer In other nations, but not great leader, you hurt the coun• long-tested machinery for remov­ of most Xavier students as they WILLIAM LARKIN', pro­ here. n didn't eoaae to me as _ try." ing our political set·vants by bal­ J. heard of President Kennedy's fessor of mathematics, concluded:_ mucb of a aurprlee, eonslderinl' About the assassin; Joe Eisa­ lot, not by bullets. I'm confident, assassination, Typical was the Kennedy's civil rlcbts pro&"ram ma·n, '64, had this to say: "It's "The tt·agic death of John F. statement of Ft·eshman Steve however, that all Americans, and his being In the South. Even hard to believe that anyone in Kennedy was a great personal Childs: "I didn't belie\'e it hap­ whatever their political persua­ now, though, I feel sick. l&'s jus& this country would think oC do­ blow to me as it was to all the pened, at first. I didn'l bclie\'e sion, will now unite behind Pt·es- disgustlnl' •• , l&'s Jaa& lliscast­ ing a thing like that and then nation. our pmycl's and sym­ it could ever happen. I think his i · Jdent Johnson in what are cer- iag." try to get away with iL Obvious• pathy arc fot• Ml's. Kennedy and loss hurt us, but it possibly ! t11inly perilous political times." Alt>ha Sigma Nu Pres ide n t ly, the man had to have been -all hel' family. might make us stronger and Chuck McClain, '64, remarked out of his mind. What pm·pose REV. GEO. A. CURRAN, S.J., ''The terrible fact of bls assassi­ more unified, though wc'\'e pmb­ that "the most appropriate com­ could. have been accomplished?" essociate professor of philosophy, nation and U111 incompatlbllitT ably lost some prestige· abroad." pointed out: "The worst part of wUb our democratic waJ' of life ment on the incident, ironically While a number or students Senior Nick Alwine, echoing enough, was in the late Presi­ it Is the picture it gives of the ahouid draw all AmerlcaDB to~. .-ulated M to how m11ch the disbelief, commented: "I still dent's own undelivered speech. 1 · United States. We've been trying •ether In a disavowal of violence ...... an•s actio• reftected pres• think it's a pretty hard thing to The topic of the speech was his to promote the idea of conlinu- u a meana· to political eada and eal-llal' Amerleaa soelety and '. accept--to believe that it ac­ lament over the great numbeT of 111ly stabilized transition, and now · Ia an afHrma&lon &bat whatever el•llhatiH In reneral, ·nl~bt tually happened. I was sut·prised people who are lookinc for easy this disrupts the whole idea. l oar diflerencea we are one peo. •~toe~ eo-ed Je Ana. VIcar, '64, at the way that a lot of fellows solutions to. complex problems." (tie, lo,.al to ••r eboeen Je.. en. . think that we are blessed to have who never used to think· polit­ Sophomore Dick Grupenhoff, ..... · "I •oa•t t•iak this sbowe tile Moral Ire.. et the aa&lon, Lyndon Johnson, an I!Xtraordi­ D&. JOHN MARK, proCessor of ically· began ·to dG so suddenly." '66, felt that "The amazing thing, .._..., t•e a-In WM an In• aat·y man, as the new pt·esidcnt." experimental psycholoty and But Roger Brandner, '64, after aside from the fact ol the loss ...... 1, ..a a ...... -.,n.. lln." REV. W, ZVGBNE SHIELS, prominent local clinician, per­ confessing to an initial t'eaction of the President, is the vemen• And asked to speculate about professor of history, eulogized: ceived symptoms of social Illness of "surprise and shock," added dous tenacity of the American poasible extra securit:r. precnu• ''His deatb removes a trl!mendous in the assassination. that on further consideration he people, to sUck totetbel' in time. "I do believe that, this murder "realized that the country was of crisis such as this. ThiS was tiona that could have been taken,. ft11ure In our national life. He Bob Mueller, · '84, commented: gave ·treat talents and th·eless Is a symptom of a sickness of our still secure and the govel'Dment shown d,urinc the Cuban crisi1 quite set. The most depressing •1 don't think they should take eft'ort in preservine a delicate society. Our society is that way. also, and it shows the stabilitp thought about the tragedy is that" extra precautions to protect a peace in the world. At home, and Yet no society has been composed in the form of covemment that one person, extremely misguided president. Someone will alwa.rt far· beyond our sltot·es, he was of so many leaders who are de· we have, to be able to aet off the about -t h e American concept, find a wa:r. to kill him, if ~ tt·usted and loved as· few· before voted to the common iooct of all fioor after we've beea knocked among the 190 million in this wiNlts to." him. We will not soon forget the .manldnd _as is this society. How down and come back· strong." country, could cause s·uch a dras­ Senior . Councilman Kip Roe' But it still !eemed that the best lllajesty he cave to his office, nor do we eliminate the sick part~ tic change in policy, possibly con­ agreed: "Once acain America is 10mmary of general student re• the sense of dedication found in If we treat only the symptom, trary to the majority~s will, over­ faced with a crisis that will unite action was given by Freshman evet·y day of his presidency." ·the disease like all diseases will only show its si~kness elsewhere. night." Democrat and Republican, Chris­ .lack Holton: "It's unbelievable DR. THO&. I. HAILSTONES, ·we must treat ttie disease, not · oae .euden&. I • • I • r Terr' tian and Jew, black man and ·that something like this couici happen. What more ean I say?"' dean of the business school, added - just the symptom.N Scholl, did oo& IIMnl • au• w-hite man," he ••14.

-·' CINCINNATI, OHIO,. TuESDAY,· .NOVEMid 2S, 198 The Teletype Pecked Out· The .Newe: ~he Cried: I!Oh, No!' The Motorcade Sped On

'(Times listed are Eastern :Blood was on his bead. Mrs... wounded slightly. One spectator They began a s~i'cb for white hour after a ilriiper cut him doWJl Standard) Kennedy cried "Oh, no!" and. said be·· saw Johnson walk into .. man, about 30 y~s of age, of as hi's limousine left downtown Dallas. · ·· ·· Word by word the Associated tried to bold up his head. the hospital holding his arm.· 'Blender build and fi~ighin~ about 165 Press trunk wire grimly pecked Connally rem a l n e d half 1:19-NEW 'I'OR.K-The New pound_s. __& ·- · .- . Automatically, ~e mantle .,, tnitial r e p o r t s of the grave slumped to the left. There was York Stock Exchange c 1 o sed Police believed" he had fired the presidency fell to Vice Presi­ tragedy: blood on his face and forehead. early today because of the shoot- on the presidential party with a dent Lyndon B. Johnson, a na­ tive of Texas who had been 1:<10 P.M.-DALLAS, Nov. ~2 The President and the Governor ing of President Kennedy. .30-.30 rifte. riding two cars behind the Chief :(AP) -President Kennedy was were rushed to Parkland Hos­ Z:20- WASHINGTON- Di- %:32-FLASH - Two priests Executive. shot today just as his motorcade pital near the Dallas Trade Mart, rector J. Edgar Hoover of the who were with Kennedy say he left downtown Dallas. Mrs. Ken­ where Kennedy was to have FBI telephoned the Dallas FBI is dead of bullet wounds. There was no immediate word made a speech. on when Johnson would take the nedy jumped up and grabbed office and ordered an all-out 1:33-T~Jh:!~sts stepped out :Mr. Kennedy. She cried: "Oh, 1:57-Rep. A 1 b e r t Thomas, investigation on the attempt to- of Parkland Hospit~l emergency oath of office. 11o!" The motorcade spend on. D-Tex., said today he was in-. day on the lives of President· ward today and said President Kennedy d i e d at Parkland l:U-AP Photographer James formed President Kennedy and Kennedy and Gov. John Con- Kennedy died of his b u 11 e t Hospital, where his b u 11 e t­ W. Altgens said be saw blood on Gov. John Connally of Texas nally of Texas. wounds. pierced body had been taken in the President's h e a d. Aitgens were both still alive after having _ a frantic but futile effort to save been shot in an assassination %:24-DALLAS-Mrs. Lyndon Z:34-WASHINGTON - Gov­ eaid he heard two shots but Johnson said after a visit to the his life. thought someone. was .shooting attempt. ernment sources said today tpat emergensy operation room today Lying wounded at the same :llrecrackers u n t i 1 he .saw the Thomas, !!tanding outside the President Kennedy is dead. the Vice President "is ·fine." hospital was Governor J o h n blood on the President. Altgens eorridor of the emergency room 1:35-DALLAS-The an­ Connally of Texas, who was cut aaid he saw no one with a gun. in which both Kennedy and She was taken back into an­ Jl o u n c e m e n t by the priests down by the same fusillade that 1:<19-AP Reporter Jack Bell Connally were under treatment, other first floor room where brought audible sobs from a said he had been told that the Johnson originaly had go n e • erowd of scores of newsmen and ended the life of the youngest asked Kenneth O'Donnell, Presi- man ever elected to the Presi­ 4!ential assistant, if Kennedy wai! President was still alive but was Askd if her husband alsG had oth~· citizens crowded around the been wounded, she shook her dency. 44ead. O'Donnell gave no answer. "in very critical condition." emergency ward entrance. head negatively. Kennedy was reported taken to 'i:04-The Secret Service said Sen. Ralph Yarborough, D­ Connally and his wife had Parkland· Hospital, near Dallas the President remained in the_ Secret Service men pushed re­ 'l'ex., talking only a few minutes been riding with the President '!'fade Mart, where be was to emergency room and the Gov­ porters away and permitted no before to newsmen, collapsed in and Mrs. Kennedy. llave made a speech. Bell said ernor was moved to the general more questions, BObs as he told of witnessina The First· Lady cradled her Kennedy was transferred to an operating room of Parkland Hos­ 2:!7-Tbe President was given the slaying of the President. dying husband's bloodsmeared pital. ambulance. He lay on a seat on the Last Holy Rites of the Roman Yarborough said he was in the bead in her arms as the presi­ the car. One Secret Service man was . Catholic Church today after an third car behind the President. dential limousine raced to ·the Bell reported three shots were overhead telling . another that assassin shot him down while "It seems to m·e that at least two hospital. :llred as the motorcade entered there was no need to move the the President was riding in a of the shots came from our right "Oh, no," she kept crying. the underpass which leads to the President because emergency fa­ caravan. A Catholic priest who rear," he said. "I cannot say Connally slumped in his seat Stem mons Freeway rout e to cilities were entirely adequate in helped perform the Last Rites, about the third." beside the President. Parkland Hospital. the emergency room. said be did not believe the Presi­ Z:3'7 - FLASH - DALLAS - Police ordered an unprece­ Pandemonium broke 1 o o s e Two Roman Catholic priests dent was dead. President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. dented dragnet of the city, hunt­ around the scene. The Secret were summoned to the emer­ The priest left the emergency (CST). (2 p.m. EST.) ing for the assassin. Service waved the motorcade on gency room where the President operating room at Parkland Hos­ They believed the fatal shots· at top speed to the hospital. Even· Jay. %:39-Presdent John F. Ken­ pital and walked out of the hos­ 'Were fired by a white man about at high speed it took nearly five nedy; Thirty-Sixth President of One was identified as a Father pital. 30, slender of build, weighing minutes to get the car to the the United States, was shot to Huber. death today by a hidden assassin about 165 pounds, and standing ambulance entrance of the hos­ 1:28-There was no immediate Malcolm Kilduff, Acting White 5 feet 10 inches tall. pital. Reporters saw Kennedy word on the extent of the wounds armed with a high - powered House Press Secretary, said that suffered by the 46 - year - old rifle. · The murder weapon reported· lying flat on his face on the seat the two priests had been "asked of his car. Chief Executive and the Gov­ Kennedy, 46, lived about an ly was a 30-30 rifle. for." ernor. Bell said a man and a woman Z:IO p.m.-Mrs. Lyndon John­ were scrambling on the upper !On was escorted by Secret Serv­ Jacqueline Kennedy, rid in g The Lights level of a walkway overlooking ice agents into the emergency 'With her husband and Connally, Pereetual Burn the underpass. room where the President lay. cradled the President's blood.:. Lawrence O'Brien, presidential Police said they did not know stained head in her hands, cry­ aid, said he had no information whether the Vice President was ing, "Oh, no!" as he slumped face The Chief Executive en whether the President was in the room. forward in the back seat of the big open oonvertible after shots lltill alive. Mrs. Kennedy was Z:ll-President Kennedy was were fired from what apparently weeping and trying to hold her given blood transfusions today at was a high-powered rifle. Rests In The Valley lmsband's head when reporters Parkland Hospital in an effort uached the car. to save his life after he and Connally slumped in his seat. WASHINGTON-John F. Ken­ George Washington, is the tomb 1:51-President Kennedy and Gov. John Connally of Texas At Parkland Hospital, where nedy was buried in Arlington of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the Cov John Connally of Texas were shot in an assassination the two political leaders were National Cemetery Monday on a Paris-born U. S. Army Major were shot from ambush today. attempt. taken, Kennedy was given blood · green slope that stretches before who designed the nation's capital Jt was not known whether either 1:16 - Hospital officials said transfusions in an effort to eave the famed Lee Mansion and dom­ at George Washington's direc­ was killed, they had given the President a his lite. inates the City of Washington tions. In Washington the White transfusnon of B Positive blood Police immediately spread a across the Potomac River. Across the g:reen, 100 yards House Press Office said at 1 :45 from the bank and were calling giant dragnet around the eity, On a direct line with the p.m. that it had nothing beyond tor fresh blood of that type· to eearching for the would-be as­ east of ·the Kennedy grave-site, Lincoln Memorial, a mile away press information on the shoot­ have it ready if additional trans­ • granite monument marks the sassin. via the Memorial Bridge, the ing. fusions were needed. , Initial reports to police gave grave site overlooks the marble grave of Oliver Wendel Holmes, 1:5<1-Kennedy apparently was %:18- There was an \mcon­ a sketchy description of a young grotto and columned entrances· the great Supreme Com't justice 1hot in the head. He fell face ftrmed report that Vice Presi­ man believed to. have been the tha·t serve as the great gate to who died in 1935 at age 94. He down in the back seat of his car. dent Lyndon Johnson had been gunman. the national shrine in the Vir• was an. officer in the 20th Mass. ginia hills. volunteer infantry in the Civil From here, the panoramic sky­ War. 'Life Is Not Taken But Changed' line of the white marbled fed­ A few yards beyond, on Sheri­ • • • eral city is seen. dan Drive, is the tomb of John America has buried its fa1len John, Jr., who was eelebrating Kennedy to cherish as a tribute To this place Sunday came Wingate Weeks, Naval Academy leader. The saddened country his third birthday, from a n a t i o n saddened but hundt·eds of persons to witness class of 1881, U. S. Representa­ aave John Fitzgerald Kennedy a Inside- words of eonsolation ·grateful. the preparations for Monday's tive, U. S. Senator and Secre­ bero's funeral and interment in and hope. Mrs. Kennedy, heavily Yelled burial ceremony - individuals, tary of War from 1921 to 1925. the shrine reserved for its heroes "Life Is not taken away ••• and In blaek, was maJestle In eouples and families, silently The little drive that leads to the -Arlington National Cemetery~ Life hi but ehanretl." A promise · her ,.orrow. No 1o111er the ftnl walking about, standing, or driv· Kennedy plot bears )Veek's name. The late President's last jour• In the words of Jesus--"1 am the lady, alae WM lnt amonr .ladles. ing their cars along Arlington's Kennedy is only second pres­ Jley began at 10:48 a.m. yester- · R.esurreetlon and the Life; he She enthralled the world with roads. ident · to be buried in Arling­ day from the Capitol rotunda who believes In Me, even If he her ·emotional eoaapoaure. While ton. The · iargest· of America's where it was viewed. by thous­ •le, !lhall live." millions wept, she , .. ealm. She "nlere is no other grave in the immediate area chosen for ihe National Cemeteries where there ands, the body was placed atop To the roll of ~uffled drums, walked at tile head et klnra ud late president. It is an open, are about 126,000 militat·y men a caisson and drawn to the White the procession moved across the ~~tueena and . lenner pretdden• •loping, erassy . plot, with three · and other heroes interred. About House. Under· a portico, the cor­ Potomac. and prime •lnu&en: her step windbent dogwood trees-white 300 yards east, beyond: red and tege paused long enough to per­ There Cardinal Cushing pray­ WM ftnn: ller head held ereet. when in bloom but barren now­ white oaks, is ·the tomb .of Wil· mit Mrs. Kennedy get. out of ed: "Let his soul and all the Even before the walk, she re­ Jiam Howard Taft; President and · just at. the rra~esite. her ·limousine. souls of the faithful departed turned to the Capitol once more. Chief· Justice' of the United Behind the caisson she walked rest in peace." to kneel at the easket. She rode ·Up the hillside to the wed States. aix b l o c k s to St. Matthew's From behind a hill rumbled back to the White House behind about 75 yards ia the Curtis·Lee The opening of the gravesite. Cathedral. With her were her the 21-gun· salute. Three volleys the caisson. When she stepped mansion, bordered by magnolias, Sunday was done behii1d board two brothers-in-law .. Behind her by riflemen rang out. Fifty jet out of the limousine on the North junipers and oaks, with a flag fencing that was erected tem­ were President Johnson, her late fighters streaked ov.erhead as Portico she stood very straight. M half-staff in front. It was here porarily, sonie at the scene said, husband's cabinet, congressional tribute from e a c h of the 50 ,!L church bell rang out Jn the that &!bert E. Lee, ihen a colonel to prevent photographs;· leaders, chiefs of state and high states. They were followed by background; a choir ·began a In the United States Army, made dignitaries from many nations. the presidential plane "Air Force hymn. 1he qonizintr decision to eam bit Up the bill at the Lee mansion, At the Cathedral steps, Rich­ One." A faint smile erossed her faee lot with his native Virginia wheD people watched ·the grim cere­ ard Cardinal Cushing of Boston Finally "Taps." tor a moment when abe beard M joined tbe southern cause. mony; aayint little•. a long-time friend, met her. She The flag was taken from the the Scottish, balpipen bu bu.- Jlfte at tbe mansiOft, 'built. Ja ·A murdere.t President lay be· was joined there by Caroline and easket, folded · and tiven llr1. band loved 10 much. · .. by the adopted IIQildiiOil .. low. CINCINNATI, .OHIO, TUESDAY, NOVE'41R 26, 19S Pace Snea Neither Victim Beads In Hand, Had A Chance Sobbing Women They died two days and seven Jllinules apart. Fell ·To Knees Neither had a chilnce. BJ BOB RYAN . ~he President .,-- shot in the temple and · neck-slumped si­ News Editor-In-Chief lently into the lap or his wife. Greater Cincinnatians reactecl ' His accused auassin-s h'o t to the assassination ol President through a kidney and his liver­ Kennedy Friday with a profusioa groaned briefly and fell into the of anxiety and sorrow, anns of lawmen. As street corner news vendors Both were rushed to Parkland acreamed the tragic headlines, Memorial Hospital. Both received thousands of stunned citizena frantic blood transfusions and gaped in horrified disbelief. Con• delicate surgery from Doctor firmed reports of the Chief Ex• Thomas Shires. Both cases were ecutive's murder reached the hopeless from the outset; Queen City shortly after 2 p.m. Oswald-a 24-year-old pro­ At that moment downtown Cin­ ~astro, pro-Communist ex-Ma­ cinnati became blanketed by a rine, ·who had been unsuccessful spectrum or frenzied emotion. ,in attempts to defect to Russia­ met his ironic: end in the base­ OFFICE WORKERS ran cry­ ment of the Dallas City J'ail. ing from their' desks, merchanta · He was being transferred to somberly drew their shades, the County Jail under heavy po­ shoppers stood frozen in horror, lice guard when his self-appoint­ Total, strangers 'gathered ill ed ex~utioner-portly, balding, stone-faced groups at ever:r hot-tempered Jack Ruby-leaped street corner-groping for worda over a four-foot barrier, plunged to express their mutual grief, through a cordon of newsmen, · llbouted: "You son of a bitch!" Tbe words eame slowI,- • . and fired one shot from a .38 cal­ When they did come, they took iber revolver, four inches from the form of angry expletives or Oswald's chest. tearful prayers. ·' Oswald elutebed bls riCh& .We. But words were not necessaf7, 410abled-up Ia a p!U'OlltJ'IID et Grim faces mutely reflected the pain, moaned loudiJ'. and ·a~ amp• pavor which indiscriminately ed Into fblal unconaelousne•. · grasped the hearts of local cit­ Oswald went mute to his izens. Cleath, A PALL of relative quiet-vio­ He was &be first -.lctlm of a lated ·only by news broadcasts aaUonaiiJ' televised murder. poul'ing from occasional transis­ . A murder ebarce was ftletl tor radios and shouts of "Presi­ aPinst RUbJ' minutes after Os· dent Assassinated!" rasped by wald died, the corner newsboys- replaced the normal clatter of the teem­ ing Queen City streets. Why Use Words?· Weeping women spontaneous­ ly slumped to their knees Oil ••• 'He's Dead!' Fountain Square, beads in han<~. BJ' BOB MANLEY and prayed. Former Editor-ln·Cbler Paled teen-agers stood motion• "Dtd You hear the news?" •It Is Rather For Us, The Living •••' less on sidewalks in the paralytic grip of the shock. asked a stranger at Fourth and A portrait of Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, hangs behind President Kennedy in Washington Sycamore. Verification is. neces• last January, as he speaks words of gratitude to business leaders for pledging racially fair employment aary. Shocking news cannot come At Fifth and Vine S&reets, a practices. from total strangers. misb -eJ'ed younl' mother futile• ly attempted to explain to her "Yes, it's true. My wife heard sad bad bewildered three-year• It on the radio," confirmed Bill old son what had happened. Bokencotter, an Evening College atudent who manages tbe garage A Timetable Of Horror American flags-pt·oudly wav­ at 326 Sycamore St. . ing m i n u t e s b e f o r e - were (Times listed are Central man said doctors believed sur­ SUNDAY, NOV. !4 ; , In Walnut Hills, m,. host's brought mournfully to half-mast. Stand«nd) gery was successful. secretary interrupts repeatedly: I A.M. -Dozens of newsmen Crowds of tearful shoppers "'They're both in. critical c:on­ 6:05' P.M.-Police announce and about 200 spectators cluster 12:31 P.M.- Kennedy fatall;r Oswald d e n i e s assassination. assembled in front of stores d.ition .••• Two priests' just en• shot. Gov. John Connally, riding outside City Jail waiting for a whet·e loudspeakers tolled radio ~red the hospital. , • , The Gov­ Questioning continues. with Kennedy, w o u n d e d by glimpse of Oswald being brought accounts or the assassination. ernor is. in the emergency op­ 7:05 P.M.-0 s w a 1 d charged sniper. out for transfer to County Jail Within &n hour shock became erating room, but the President with Tippitt murder. Police armed with riot guns keep anger, tears became fear. And 11:40 P.M.-Kennedy wheeled 11:50 P.M.- Oswald charged has not been taken into sur.. crowds back. out of the initial confusion came aery, .• ·" Into emergency operating room with assassination of Kennedy, at Parkland Hospital where team 11:11 A.M.-Ca·pt. Fritz walks questions: Why? How? What Other driven appear tense. Into garage toward armored car, of surgeons work desperately to now? Car radios are all on. Back at SATURDAY, NOV. !I leading Oswald, detectives flank­ save his life. the Sycamore Street garage, ing him. National television net­ CINCINNATIANS sought the 1:15 A.M.- Oswald arraigned BOkencotter reports: "He's dead." 1 P.M.-Kennedy dies. works and radio networks broad­ answet·s in different ways. Some Xavier students decorating as Kennedy's assassin. 1:18 P.M.-Dallas police re­ casting scene live. remained by their radio and tele­ Christmas . trees on Fountain ceive a report that Patrolman J. 10:10 A.M.-Police learn that 11:21 A.M.-Jack Ruby, Dallas vision sets-waiting, hoping-for Square, pause, look up and see D. Tippitt shot and killed nearly ·Oswald once sent threatening the· flags fall to half staff, first letter to Connally. night club owner, leaps from an explanation. Others flocked four miles from site of assassin­ clustered photographers, jams on the Federal Building, then on 11:17 A.M.-Oswald asks that to churches. ation. gun at Oswald's ribs and fires. the Square, and finally on pri• New York Lawyer John Abt, Schools and businesses closed. 2:07 P.M.-Bronze casket con­ ll:22 A.M.-Oswald, mortally vate buildings, who has background of defend· At the Church of the Hol;r In the somber United States taining the body of President wounded, picked Up off floor and Kennedy leaves Parkland Hos­ ing Com.munists, take his case. Name in Mount Auburn dozen• ~ourt House, turned-up radios hustled back i n s i d e • Police 1Z:20 P.M.-Police announced of small children filed into the repeat tlle news. The Clerk of pital accompanied by Mrs. Ken­ guards subdue Ruby. nedy. that paraffin tests on Oswald's sanctuary to pray for the soul Court fidgets more than usual. 11:25 A.M.- Ambulance ar­ of the slain President and the 2:15 P.M.-Lee Harvey Os­ hands are positive, indicating he Referees Leonard C. Gartner, '51, rives to rush Oswald to Park­ future of the Republic. and Raymond J. Pellman, '29, wald, accused presidential as­ had fired a rifle such as the wea• land Hospital. Most of the young mourners order the Federal · Bankruptcy sassin and accused killer of Tip­ pon that killed Kimnedy. Oswald ll:32 A.M.- Oswald wheeled seemed unable to comprehend Court closed·. pitt, captured by four policemen refused to take lie detector test into s a m e emergency ward the full weight of the tragedy, · At Fifth and Main, the Post in the Texas Theater, five blocks but maintains he was not the where President Kennedy was But among the more mature end Times-Star already has the from where the President was assassin. , taken two days previously, few .eyes remained dry. dreary headlines. At Fifth and 1lain. 2:06 P.M. -Homicide C h i e f Capt. Will Fritz announce t111it 11:42 A.M.-Oswald taken· to Several teen-age girls . wept Vine, the near-blind news vendor 2:37 P.M.- Coffin placed the case against Oswald as Ken• second ftoor operating room, di­ openly. One sobbed: "I can't be­ impatiently stands, wishing he aboard presidential p 1 a n e for nedy's assassin is "cinched." rectly over operating r o o m lieve it... , I can't understand eould see whether or not the ftight back to Washington. 6:12 P.M.- Oswald shouts to where Kennedy died. it. .•• But it must be God's will ... truck was on its way with the 2:39 P.M. - Vi c e President newsmen that his rights are · ll:U A.M. -Doctors fight to rt must be God's will. We Papers his Carew. Tower cus• Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as being violated. save. his life-using some or the might nc~er understand it. &omers wanted. 36th President of the United The graph Jn Westheimer's 6:45 P.M.- Police aimounce same methods t h e y used for States in front compartment of they had a photograph of Os­ President Kennedy. And .ai Lytle Park. a sma• window ahows a strong market the plane. until the third hour of trading, wald holding the rifle with which · 1:00 P.M.-0 s w a 1 d's heart scboolboJ stOOd sllen&IJ before then a sudden decline-21 priints, 2:47 P.M.-Presidential plane Kennedy was killed and that stops .. &be weathered siaiue of anoihfll' till the market was cl.osed. bearing body of dead President, their case is now airtight. They 1:01 P.M.~Doctors begin open murdered presldeni - Abraha• his .widow, President Johnson By ten in the evening, Burk• plan to move him Sunday to a heart massage. Uneom, Tears welled In bls eJee and his wife and White House maximum security cell in the 1:07 P.M.-Oswald pronounced lwlrdt's had removed their suits aa he contemplated Llneoln'a and·shlrts and were displaying a aides leaves for washington. County Jail, one mile away on dead, draped color portrait of tbe late 1:11 P.M.-Connally brought the o t her side of downtown 1:25 P.M;-Ruby char&ed with I'UI'Ied eountenance-.an earlier Preaideut. · eut of o~ratin~ room. Spok~•· Dallu. murder. ..,oflle of Amerleaa oourac• •. '' CINCINNATI, OHIO, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1963 The Dynamic Life of a Leader

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Even as a young Massllchusetts schoolboy, John Fitzgerald Kennedy epitomized the vigorous living that as 35th President of the United States he was later to eall for from other American youths (1, 2), ln the heat of war, as a naval lieutenant in command of a patrol torpedo boat, he exemplified the rugged courage that

liS Commander-in-Chief he was to muster from his fellow citizens in

the Cold War (3, 4). He was 11 devoted husband (5), a playful father (fi), a dedicated senator C7), a hearty campaigner (8), an inspiring leader (9), a pioneerinJ )>resident. CINCINNATI, OHIO, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1963 Pace Nine

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His tina] hours mirrored bi5 willingness io die .for his country. The young President ignored the advice of Secret Service men that warm Dallas afternoon. He yearned to be near his countrymen, whose pulse he often felt in those characteristic impromptu chats along pnrmle routes-Klatsches that would be impossible while sheltered beneath a bulletproof canopy.

A final speech ( 1) • , • a cheering crowd ( 2) M• an instant of terror (3) ••• 11 hopeless struggle (4) ••• a mournful journey (5) , , . a bloodstained widow (6) , a grieving People (7) • , , and Eternal Rest.

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Cincinnati youngsters screamed "We love you, John!" as Senator Kennedy disembarked-off-sched­ ule--from his multi-engined campaign plane at Lunken Airport at 10:23 p.m. on October 5, 1960- his second of four visits to the Queen City (l ). De• ~~te an ailing war-injured back, the young presi­ dential hopeful briskly hopped from supporter ·to eupporter as a group of banner-waving Xavierites cheered him on (2, 3). The next day he left his Hotel Gibson headqua11ers, motorcaded through Northern Kentucky (4), stopping for brief addresses in Newport and Covington (5), before p1·esenting bis now-famous "Ci11dnnahti Address" to a mam· moth throng..... of a hundred thousand gleefully chant· lng citizens "at Government Square (6, '1, 8, 9). He departed from Greater Cincinnati Airport the fol• lowing day (10). The tenor of downtown Cincinnati was different J'riday (see story, pace 7). _.N.... (R:1••J Pl•o~• - ~Pan~'lwei~,.====~C=IfC=INNA~;n.~GH~IO.tu~ISM~~~. NOV~ra=•·g·~·-~· ======,·

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- ... DNCIJtNAn, 01110, TUESDAY~ NOVEMIR 25. 198 Driver' ::Newl• . President Described As 'Hard ~U Johnson LoSt To IFK ,. But Remained Loyal LYndon Johnson, the nation's tary Wille!'d Wirtz, and Interior · aew President, is a hard-driving Becretary stewart Udall. ··Texan who lost the '1980 Demo­ All of these officials are ell• . entic nomination to John Ken­ pec:ted to be kept in their po&ts, . nedy, but then ~erved as his at least. for the time being. younger rival's Viee President Johnson talked by telephone ·with unftaggingloyalty. Saturday with· former Presidents The tragic assassination of _ Harry Truman and Dwight Eis­ Kennedy in Texas elevated the enhower. A tittle later the White 65-year-old Johnson to the post House announced that the Re· he sought and lost in a bitter publican ex-President had been convention ftght three years 'ago. asked to meet with Johnson to­ morrow. JohDson, who suffered a near­ Truman arrived in Washington fatal heart attack eight yean Saturday to join mourners. For• ago is possibly better prepared mer President Herbert Hoover legislatively and administrative­ also was contacted, the White ly than any Vice President in House said, but indicated he histoey who has been caUed upon could not get to ihe capital. to take up the task of the Presi­ Last rites for the deceased dency. President were performed in And in his ~erviee as Vice Washington Monday at a Pon­ President with the slain Presi­ tifical Requiem Mass eelebrated dent; Johnson showed a humility by Richard Canlinal Cushing, and devotion that was new to Archbishop of Boston. . . -Official White House Photo many political observers. Johnson was only a few cars Johnson has elose to t h r e e back when an assassin's bullet Johnson Takes The Helm Of The Ship Of State Her voice breaking under the strain, Federal District Court Judge Sarah T. Hughes swears in Lyndon· B. deeades of Washington exper­ felled his predecessor in the Dal­ Johnson as the 36th President of the United ~tatesaboard the presidential plane at Dallas Airport. ience behind him. las motoreade. After President Kennedy's death and the swear­ President Johnson is flanked by his wife, Ladybird, (left), and Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, widowed an He beeame President with in­ hour and 39 minutes earlier. The slain President's body lies in a bronze casket in a rear compartment ftnitely 'treater experience for ing-in ceremony, he rushed back to the capitol and his awesome of the aircraft. It was the first time in history that a president of the United States had taken the Oath the job than Kennedy, Dwight D. of Oftlce aboard a plane or had it administered by a woman. Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman Dew duties; ·- or even Franklin D. Roose­ -..rrttiiii.. MIII-111·11·-1 from a few fed away at. the yelt. 'J'Iaree Otlaer Presidents Slaot preslden&'s baek, Not only in Congress, how• ROTC Ball Off; ever, did Johnson accumulate Garfield lived more than two the background that will stand No New Date Set JFK Nation's· First Victim months but died Sept. 19. him in good stead at the White PRESIDENT WILLI.I\1\1 1\fc­ House. S i n c e becoming Vice The Military Ball will be re­ Of 'Modern' Assassination KINLEY was the attraction of · · President - a job he said he acheduled, Lt. Col. Vincent F. Assassinations have taken the life from four Presidents the day at the magnificent Pan­ would never accept while he Fazio, Xavier professor of mili­ of the United States: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and John American Exposition in Buffalo, tary science a n d training, an­ · actively opposed Kenn~dy for Fitzgerald Kennedy. But Kennedy was the first Presidential N. Y., on a warm September the nominations - Johnson has Dounced late Saturday. victim of a motorcade and the long-range rifle. His three afternoon 20 years after the Gar­ added to his · wealth of exper­ The decision to postpone the martyred predecessors were killed at close quarters. field assassination. baU, originally scheduled for Nov, ience. ABRAHAM LINCOLN w a s . . The hh of the Exposition was 23, was made iD conference Fri­ In tum, .Kennedy refused 1o sitting in a box at ·Ford's Theater· ·deed. Among his -laSt wo~ds, the Tower of Light, a 409-foot day afternoon at 3:30 p.m. by ,- . assign Johnson to the back of in Washington, watching a new when he was shot by Federal structure encrusted with 35,000 Rev. Paul L. O'Connor, S.J., the political shelf, even though comedy, "Our American Cousin.• · Troops in a b u r n i n g barn in light bulbs. The w h it e stucco university president; Rev. Pat­ their political beliefs were often He had been carefully guarded Southern Virginia, were: Temple of Music was the imr.o.or­ rick H. Ratterman, .S.J., dean of ·· 8harply contrasting w h e n they tant building on Sept. 6, 1901, men; and Col. Fazio. during the long Civil War-al- "Tell mother I died for mY were in the Senate together. because for 10 minutes, Presi­ Fazio said the balJ, like other though he had placed his own country." Johnson took a major hand in dent McKinley was going to military functions throughout the life in danger by visiting the FIFTEEN TEARS after Lin- many domestic and foreign af­ stand in a reception line shaldng country, would not be held for battle lines when the Confeder­ coin's assassination, the Presi­ fairs and knows many of the ate Army was outside Washing­ hands with the public. at least 30 days after President dent was James A. Garfield and world's leaders. ton and standing up, a tall, top­ Kennedy's death. the scene was the Baltimore & Leon F. Czolgosz, fa c t o r y hatted target, to see what the The White House has issued No date can be announced at Potomac railroad s t a t i o n in worker, farmhand, and anarchist enemy looked like. a brief statement 1111ying Presi­ this time, he added, because Xav:. ·Washington, Garfield had been who felt he had a mission, got dent Lyndon Johnson had· asked ier and the Music Hall manage­ Five days before Lincoln went in the White House four months in line early. As the line moved the officials of the House and ment have to 6nd a date to fit to the theater, Robert E. Lee -tiring months made more tir­ forward, into the building and Senate for their "united support both their schedules. had surrendered. The war was ing by the ftood of office-seekers toward the presidential party in · in the face of tbe tragedy that Aske~ if Si Zentner's Orches­ all but over. The guards, per­ hoping for a place in the new front of a display of potted trees, has befallen our country." tra, who had been commissioned haps, relaxed. administration. He was leaving Czolgosz held his right h a n d "Ht! said that it is more es­ to play Saturday night for $2650, Jolut Wilkea llootb, a e t • r , Washington for a two-week va• tight agal~st his side, wrapped sential than ever before that this would play on the new date, be Soatllern. part.lsan aad, Ia &be eation. in a white handkerchief that country be united," the state­ aaid, "I don't know. It depends epinioa el maDY historians, ln­ Charles J. Guiteau had hoped looked like a bandage. In his ment said. "The legislative lead­ on their schedule." UDe, lltepped tbrouKII tbe door for appointment as ambassador "injured" hand he held a .32- ers of both parties assured Presi­ Into Uncoln's box, aimed a Uay to Austria, or perhaps consul in caliber revolver. dent Johnson of their bipartisan -MIMMtllll UU-11111 U UU I I AlAI Ill I I- Derrla&'er pistol at tbe Preal- · Paris. He got neither; and he got The President held out his cooi>eration." little attention from Washington dent'• bead aad fired. Boo&ll &ben band when &be slim, youn:; man oftlcials. Johnson, who was sworn into leaped down on &be aU..e, ea&eb­ wl&h &he bandace stood facinc office in the presidential plane New Law Asked On tile mornilll' of Jab' 2, m. IIIII IIPUF OD tbe ftaK aDd 111m. C•olc•• I'Ot oft two llhots Rep. R i c hard S. Schweiker 1181, Garfield waa w a I k In K just before it left DaUas for brealdJII'IIillleK. He tlloated •sae before be was Jmoeked oft his (R., Penn.), said he will .intro­ tb...... h tile ladies wal&inK room Washington; also conferred in the ...... vnnnu" ("Til• .. all feet by &be 110ldlen and Secret eapital with Defense Secretary duce legislation making it a fed­ ef &be .aatlon. aeeompanlecl bY ~na-"), and ..,.pett, Serviee men. Robert S. McNamara, White eral offense to. murder, assault, Lincoln died the next day. Seeretary ef State J a m e 11 G. .House Adviser McGeor:ge Bundy, or plot to harm the President Like every presidential as­ Blaine. Galteaa eame ap behind McKinley died e i g h t days lmd Undersecretary of State of the United States. aassin, Jlooth did not recret his tllem, llrew a pistol, and llred later. Czolgosz was electrocuted. George Ball. This meeting pre~ Representative Schweiker said: sumably dealt with defense and foreign policy. • A crime of this magnitude af­ fecting the security and the wel­ The White House further an­ fare of the nation most certainly nounced that the- new Chief Ex­ should be covered by ·our fed­ ecutive conferred by telephone •al statutes." with FBI Director J. Edgar · Hoover on the inve11tigation into He was amazed to learn that ··· President Kennedy'• assassina­ present federal legislation dOe. tion, not cover attaeks of the Dation's At 1:30 a.m., Sooday, the new chief executive. Preaident met with Secretary of Assaults on dozens, of 1euer State Dean Rusk, one of aix cab· officials are now covered by fed­ iftet members who were enroute eral statutes. Thoae covered in- · : to Japan when the former Vice elude: U. S. Attorney, Judtn. Prmdent was suddenly thrust Marshals and 10me employees ol the nation's highest office. . mto agencies 1 u c h u the Depart• . "..'he others who tumed baek menta of Jnterior and Acricul• between Honolulu and Tokyo iure. .when •word was flashed of Presi• deQt K e n n e d y 'a death were Schweiker said hi• propelled · ·'J'reasury Secretary Doualas Dil• legislation would not affect the ; lm, Commerce Seefttai'Y _Luthft · killer of President Kennedy' be­ .A .Fourth Hu .Been ·Added · JJGd,... Apieulture Secretary ...... ,_id•ta Mwalla• Uacola, Jamefl O.rleJd. and William MeKinle7 ••• aU IUIIered almilar er._, · Gnille l'r--, l.abor Secre- .nvoaetiv• CINCINNATI, OHIO, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 190 Pro-Cuban Bttllets Strike Down Tlte President

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