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Police arrest suspect From ALISTAIR COOKE New Y ork, .N ovember 22 President John 'Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United r States, was shot during a motorcade drive through downtown Dallas this afternoon. He died in the emergency room of the Parkland Memorial Hospital 32 minutes after the attack. He was 46 years old, and is :the third-President to be assassinated in office since Abraham Lincoln and the first since President McKinley in 1901. : JLate this afternoon , the Dallas police took into custody a 24-year-old former marine, Lee H; Oswald, who is alleged to have shot and killed the policeman outside a cinema. He is said to have remarked only : " It is all over, now." He is the chairman of a group called the " Fair Play for Cuba Committee," and is married to a Russian girl. He is described at the moment as " a prime suspect.- ' -Presiden t Kennedy is succeeded at once by the Vice-President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, a 55-year-old native Texan, who took the oath of office in Dallas at five minutes to four at the hands of a woman Federal Judge. ' n. This is being written in the numbed interval between the first shock and the harried attempt to reconstruct a sequence of fact from an hour of tumult. However, this is the first assassjnation of a world figure that took place in the age of television ; and every network and station in the country abandoned .its daily Mrs Kenne dy bends over the body of her dying husband in the back of the car. An grind and took- up the plotting of the appalling story. At unidentifie d man 'is standin g on the bumper. Below, Lyndon Johnson is sworn in as the new this hour, it begins to form a grisly pattern, contradicted President in the cabin of the Presidential plane. By bis side is Mrs Kennedy Facing the Johnson Defector by a grisly preface : the projection on television screens who came of happy crowd and a grinning President only, a few seconds before the gunshots. - . " ' AdminMtmtion The President was .almost at.the end of his Jwxwiay From ALISTAIR" CO OKE back tour of Texas: He was to make a. luncheon speecti'.iif the' ' " " * " " New York -/*November 22 - Kenned y could command will be From RICHARD SCOTT Dallas trade :mart Building and his :motb^processiqnjhad about' another mile to go. He had had' the ^warmest It is traditional' for all his. ¦ . \Vqshington, welcome of his trip,from-a.great-crowd' Cabinet officers to submit But every Presiden t re- --- -- 'November '^22: at the airport; and ,their resignations , to the 'new. arrang¦ es V th e elements around Lee Oswald, who is theories and ,pleas for-a personal touch were so engaging President, and this ".will be him." Some " influential '-men will that Mrs Kennedy tpbk the lead;and walked.froni.the ramp done when they are all go into decline, other anonymous under, arrest in-. Dallas as come, the ,prime suspect in Mr - of the;Rresjderitial;'piane to a" fence tbatf.hej fr tne^crowdMn; assembled in Washington , helpers will. up- . .There is ' : ' no cause to fear tha t the main Kennedy's' assassination , She was.followed quickly by the President, and they^both tonight or tomorrow/ • trend of the Government' s policy, went to ' Russia, in 1959 seized hands and forearms and smiled gladly at the people. President • - Johnson arrived either forei gn or domestic, will and married a Russian just after six o'clock th is evening be arrested any more than it has woman who aboard the Air Force plan e that alread y been < arrested by . the .bore him one ' child. He returned to the Security precautions brou ght the body of the dead mulishness tif . Con gress. United , States':..with his Pres ident back to Andrews1 - Air family last year. - The Secret Service and the police were relieved to get Force base in Maryland; He came Coaxing power OswaldJ'dcsected .' after them into their car where Mrs Kennedy to a stick of microphones and What how begins to stir the ¦ sat between the said : politicians ,, an d after them the his . discharge - from the President and John B. Connally, Marine's," and.ilater 'told the Governor of Texas. , " We have . suffere d a loss nation, however, is the identity The Dallas police , had instituted the most stringent " that cannot be weighed. For of the next President , .Lyndon the *. US E m b a s s y in me iv is a. deep- personal Johnson was never a great vote- Moscoio that • he had security precautions in the city's history. They wanted no tragedy. I know that th e world getter , he Has had one moderately app lied f or Soviet citizen- repetition of the small but ^disgraceful brawl that •shares the sorrow 'th at Mrs severe- heart attack ,--and he has sJiip.v.While in Russia he . Kenned y and her family.bear. not shown in public-at any rate is said to have w' orked in humiliated Mr >Adlai : Stevenson in' .their city when he I'll do -my best , that is all I tha t he has a captivatin g air of a Minsk; factory . attended a United Nations rally on October 24.' can do. I ask your help and leadership. What ' he, does have Last; year applied o God's." is an unrivalled knowledge of .he. t The motorcade was going along slowly but smoothly how to coax Congressional power. be allowed ito-return to when three muffled shots He will spend the night at the Ametf ca ,:and l , which the crowd first mistook Wh ite House-seeing some of the It is possible that ' the next was granted for fireworks, cracked through the cheers. One hit the Cabinet and- the Congressional Congress will move faster under an; ' exit! ? is a by the the wh ip he laid down when ' he Soviet authorities. He was shoulder - blade and the wrist of Governor-Connally, who leaders of both parties. 1 was taken with the President to the hospital resi gned from the Senate. recently f ined in New , where his Uniquely equipped There Is still the question , if Orleans for distributing condition is serious. The other brought blood trickling Once the first blow wore off. one can raise questions ,in' the Communist literature^ and from the back of the head.of the sitting President. His the people looked at President¦ mourn ful stupor .we are now liv- is -reported to have been right arm flopped from a. high wave of greeting and he Johnson . arriving with his new ing-through , whether the Demo- chairman of the - " Fair collapsed into the arms of Mrs Kennedy, who fell unharmed. Secret Service detail¦ , and the cra tic Party, once its decent grief Play f or Cuba Committee." very unfamiliarity of the > . title is over, w ill begin .to challenge She was heard to cry, " Oh, no !" and sat there all the way aroused their political "instincts cradling the President' s automat ic¦ right to his head in her lap. Mrs Kenned y with Mr Robert Kennedy, -watching the casket which had been anaesthetised - be the. next nominee ^ And for The President was taken to the emergency room of containing the Presi dent 's body beine placed into an ambulance The Queen with all the rest. We now have the Republicans , after a sombre the Parkland Hospital and Governor Connally was taken to face the Johnson Administra- interval, there is a .wholly new Britain to into surgery. Mrs Kennedy went in with tion, 'an d after that what ? prospect of:picking a man with the living sends After eight years in the House some persona l dynamism to President, and less than an hour later came out with the and 12 in .the Senate , and three defeat Johnson. hdld national dead man .in a bronze coffin , which- arrived . shortly after as a Vice-President who was Running against President two priests had administered the last rites of the Roman messages privy to, all the bus iness- of the Kenned y was a labour that four service Catholic. Church. The body was escorted by Generals National Security Council the or five men at most were anxious Clifton and McHugh, the President' The Queen has sent messages new President, it is being rightly to under take , and none of them s chief military and said , is almost uni quely equipped would relish- Runnin g In an open It was announce d from 10 Air Force aides, to the Dallas Airport and flown thence to to Mrs Kennedy and Mr to carry on the- Administrative field ,. against a fledgling Presi- ' Downing Street that a national Washington. ' Lyndon Johnson. functions of government. In all dent,' is quite another sort -pf the crises, from the Bay of Pigs challen ge; , and one ' may service of commemoration will The one to Mrs Kennedy was : that - : " I am so deeply distressed to to the civil rights eruptions and soon , quicken more Presidential be held for - P r e s i d e n t Snip er's nest learn of the tragic death of the tax bill manoeuvres , he has hopes than we had dreamed of ' Kennedy. The date and place President Kennedy. My husband been always close at hand ; and this morning. in¦the.happy¦ Texas Within an hour of the President's death, the Secret joins me in sendin g our heartfelt all the expert , advice th at sunshine. , -.-.- - will be decided within the and sincere sympathy to you and next day or two.