| Show The Salt Lake' Tribune 8 Saturday November 23 1963 Kennedy Johnson Takes Reins Assassin’s -- Motorcade at Dallas Ends With Tragedy ' Assassin’s Bullet Shocks Stuns Nation’s Millions 11 Caroline w’ill be 6 next Wednesday faithfully execute the duties of Police sirens rent the air withPresident and defend the Consti-tutio- in minutes after Mr Kennedy was shot as officers began their ' The oath was administered by search for the assassin Guns US District Judge Sarah T drawn uniformed police raced Hughes who became the first first toward a railroad embankwoman to swear in a chief ex- ment where they thought the ' ecutive was hiding to her She was named post WITHIN A FEW hours sev-erby Mr Kennedy in October suspects were picked up 1961 and held without charges for 4 None was estabPlaced aboard the big silver questioning blue and white jet which Mr lished as the killer All the resources of the Secret Kennedy rode so often In life Service and the Federal Bureau of assassinated the the was body i of Investigation were thrown chief executive into the hunt MR KENNEDY’S body was to MR KENNEDY lived barely be taken home to the White House he occupied for 34 months half an hour after the bullet struck his head to lie in state Saturday The dying chief executive nevMr died Before he Kennedy er regained consciousness as wa& given the last rites of the 8 to 10 doctors waged a Roman Catholic Church He was some but futile campaign to frantic the firsL Catholic President in save his life Continued From Page 1 H gjv n & Continned From Page ' 4 $ I fiif m I ft ' '""to riile-wield- iff V " V:-- i V - M - ?! f 1 fH Cf rli ! 1 J sw s t i ri $ U tr 4 If Slr a eri a fc t 1 J: ijj £ A American history n po-lic- ’ A- - - - t wanted Malcom Perry “there was no “ palpable pulse beat” ake Mr Kennedy’s assassin was not so bold He "fired from a secret hiding i place And although police and secret service agents quickly drew pistols and automatic weapons they found no target at which to shoot ' More than a dozen secret service agents were within close range of Mr Kennedy when he ' was shot just as his limousine left the downtown business section and headed toward the ex-- ’ pressway that led toward the hall where he planned to make a ' luncheon address THE carefully trained 'agents and police could offer no however effective protection against the sniper who with murder in his heart laid his plans so cleverly and diabolical- 4 ly Until tragedy struck at Mr Kennedy there had been no successful assassination of an Amer-ica- n President since the secret service was made the special protector of chief executives following Mr McKinley’s death MR KENNEDY was the first President to die in office since was Franklin D Roosevelt fatally stricken with a cerebral ’ hemorrhage at Warm Springs Ga in 1915 The death of the handsome v energetic President dealt Mrs Kennedy a second shock of anguish in less than four months ALL On Aug ’ her second son Patrick Bou ier Kennedy died in Boston after some 40 hours of life 9 The Kennedy’s had planned to to their summer home at Hyannis Tort Mass next week to observe Thanksgiving and celebrate the birthdays of their two children go SON JOHN JR will' be 3 years old on Monday Daughter Doctors were not certain whether Mr Kennedy was struck by one or two bullets sA & a £ rifle Police believe that a gunman using a with telescopic sights fired the shots that killed President high-power- News Awaits To Kemicdys’ Lie in Stale —Associated Presi Wlrephoto Kennedy from the window in the Dallas School Book Depository marked by box Cross marks approximate location of Kennedy Body of President Flown to Capital 2 Children probably Three distinct reports from to the home of Atty Gen Robert an assassin’s rifle shattered the F Kennedy and that Mrs Kenstillness that seemed awesome nedy also would spend the night after the noisy procession be- there White House assistants said tween towering office buildings only that Mrs Kennedy was “in THE FUTURE history of the seclusion” nation and perhaps the world CAROLINE WHOSE 6th was inexorably altered as a bulbirthday is next Wednesday and let sped to its human target All who saw or sensed what John who will be 3 years old was happening were stunned' on Monday were kept to their almost beyond belief— perhaps regular schedules Friday afternone so much as Lyndon John- noon by their nurse Mrs Maud son the native Texan who had Shaw Precautions were taken to sought the presidency in vain sure the children did not make 1960 in and was now in line to have it thrust upon him through accidentally hear the news tragedy WHO had atCAROLINE class on her tended MR KENNEDY and his wife had flown to Texas Thursday the third floor of the White for a speaking tour of major House this morning returned to cities They had toured San An- the family living quarters on the tonio Houston and Fort Worth second floor at about 1:15 pm (Washington time) before the before flying to Dallas Several hundred thousand per- assassination occurred She remained there with her sons saw the First Family durfor the rest of the afterbrother 24 hours their ing together in thp noon state first-grad- e 4 lit I - --Si®® Jr A A V Vl’-- V I 'k'h&M''® J f btW C? ’ 5 JM T’ f f he was our President” And what happens now with him shot dead? There will be another president of course but it won’t be Mr Kennedy nor his ideals and manners -- nor their reflection in the world’s destiny whether you loV&f ‘him or hated him for what he was ' funeral cortege of four or five black limousines followed the ambulance from the field It seemed pointless or improper to go on at least for the time being Courts were adjourned Amusement places shut down 'Games were called off Dinners were canceled - It was as if people Just couldn’t bear to continue as usual not right now “He was such a young man such a fine man” an old woman said shaking her head sorrowident will lie in repose at the fully mumbling to herself as White House Saturday and will she stood watching a news printlie in state in the rotunda of the er outside New York’s AssociCapitol on Sunday and Monday ated Press Building The President’s body will be taken a couple of miles to the A CROWD stood there and Cathedral at 11 am (EST) Mon- their mood was like that of day There Richard Cardinal crowds wherever they were n incredulous and Cushing archbishop of Boston and close friend of the Ken- often angry bitterly angry that nedy family wiilr celebrate a it could have happened Pontificial Requiem Mass at “It's as if we lived in a noon jungle” a housewife said But she didn’t say much as she sat Acting White House Press watching the television reports Secretary Andrew T Hatcher at home 1 said he did not know where She was mostly silent As Mr Kennedy wiU be buried so many were silent and hurt There has been one report The rich and poor black and still unconfirmed that burial would be in the family plot in white whatever their profession or status in town and country— Brookline Mass they felt it shuddered at it THE WHITE nOl’SE an- were bewildered by it nounced that Mrs Kennedy reACTOR JAMES Stewart-visititurned to the White House Friin Colorado tried to phrase with the of the body day night President and would spend the what itneant this sniper's kill night in the executive mansion ing of jr“vital intelligent” presHatcher had announced earlier ident at a time when the country the body will be brought from desperately needs vitality and Bethesda Naval Hospital during Intelligence the night to the White House “A tragedy of terrifying proThe public will be permitted he said portions” 9 to file past the bier until pm Sunday and from 9 until 10 am Flags on school buidings went Monday the Wihte House said to half mast and in many classPRESIDENT Kennedy’s body rooms where the news tame will lie in repose in the East In school hours there were moRoom of the White House frgm ments of silence of prayer and things just sort of folded up 10 am until 6 grief-stricke- ng THE BRONZE casket was placed in a military ambulance to be taken to the Naval Hospital at Bethesda Md A — Associated Tress Wlrephoto One pm Saturday After the hearse left the apron Gov John Connally of the airport President and "bullet in back out of chest The White House said Presi“He was our friend” a little dent Kennedy’s immediate fam Mrs Johnson descended the girl said ily will be present then from stairway of the plane and ap10 to 11 am Shot Governor Business in most downtown proached a bank of microthe on lined up phones being edge Leading members of the House and Senate walked up to President Johnson and shook his hand BEFORE beginning his talk Johnson pulled his wife Mr i j" N at i V THE BODY OF the slain Pres- - The casket bearing the body the dead President was moved out of the plane onto the lift Among those helping to carry the body were Lawrence O’Brien the President's longtime friend and his legislative assistant on the hill I - closer Then with a griril expression on his face he began slowly his first statement as President of the United States President Kennedy’s funeral will be held Monday at St Matthews Roman Catholic Ca: thedral the White House Friday night of 1 u Today ' By Associated Press WASHINGTON Nov 22 -PWhile there were two wounds © New York Times Service one in the back of the head and Kennedy’s body was resident another in the neck near the WASHINGTON Nov 22 -P- returned to a Friday night Adam’s Apple both could have resident Kennedy’s children shocked and capital sorrowing traced the path of a single fatal Caroline and John Jr wentto piece of metal THE BIG Air Force plane that bed Friday night without having ALL THIS occurred within 90 been told of their lather’s had carried John F Kennedy on so many of his triumphal tours minutes of what must have been death touched down at Andrews Air a happy event for Mr Kennedy MRS KENNEDY apparently Force Base Md at 6:03 pm —a triumphal cavalcade through wished to tell them herself and EST: Dallas a metropolis generally they were shielded with care which bears the The plane as center of a ultraregarded from the tragic new's throughon the tail taxied American flag conservative thought out Friday afternoon and eveTens of thousands lined the up to directly in front of the ning terminal arid tliepresldential streets of the business district At around f:30 pm the chil12 10 to standing deep on both dren were taken from the White helicopters flew in close to it curbs to cheer their President House to an unknown destinaA SPECIAL yellow liftCwas and his glamorous wife tion to await the arrival of their put in up to the rear door of the big plane and pall bearers Then the motorcade turned mother: of all military services went the from crowded streets away IT WASTHOUGIT that the abroad and toward the freeway taken children were i AS if he was my New Haven Conn man said a catch in his voice “But he was more than that— it had come to a stop and in many sectors of the nation’s life things came to a stop too -- "friend bands “I FELT brother” a AH of - who sections came to a virtual standGovernment much was at stake so much still closed their doors had depended on him It wasn’t just a president who And It came so suddenly so was dead 'and what that pieans violently so unexpectedly this to national and international afdeath of a young president the fairs but also a father a young end of this handsome vigorous father of two young children John Kennedy with his dark And people felt that too shock of hair his lively eyes and sharp mind And it took something out of most everyone 1 buildings ’ Blood t r a n s f u sions and SCORES OF dignitaries adand news reporters who had draughts of oxygen were ministered a place with Mr Kennedy in the motorcade that became a rep Then came an anesthetic that dezvous with death were stunned preceded an emergency as they grappled with the reality a procedure in that a President had been shot which a surgeon cut a hole in down for the first time in sixty-thre- e the President’s windpipe with years the hope of easing labored The last presidential victim of breathing an assassin was William McKin-leWithin a few minutes howwho was felled at close ever all hope was gone range in 1901 at Buffalo NY who crazed a apgunman hy Mr Kennedy’s heart action proached him in the guise of a failed and in the words of Dr Tears Dismay 4$ Military to Blast Tributes Today s By A sod a If d Press WASHINGTON Nov 22- -A gun will thunder each half hour from dawn to dark Saturday at each Army and Marine Corps base to render honor to the late President Kennedy commander-in-chie- A L similar ritual followed by Navy tolil be ships in port The Air Force with no specific regulations for such an occurrence was preparing to dispatch orders along the same Jlnes ARMY regulations provide that at each base and at West Point Military Academy troops be paraded at 10 am and that the official order announcing the death of the President be read to the troops Jackie Takes Long Ride-Lon- ely Sad © New York Times Service WASHINGTON Nov 22- -A stunned Mrs John F Kennedy returned Friday night to a city she had left a scant 31 hours earlier as the wife of jthe President of the United States CLUTCHING THE hand of her Attorney General Robert F Kennedy "she stood beside the casket bearing the body of her husband as it was lowered to the ground by a yellow lift drawn up beside the presidential jet Air Force I brother-in-la- She then climbed into an ambulance beside the casket for the long ride to Bethesda Naval Hospital She wore the same pink wool suit she had been wearing hours earlier when her husband collapsed at her side the victim of an assassin’s bullet on the streets of Dallas Tex Aides said Friday night that Mrs Kennedy probably would join her children Caroline and John Jr The Texas trip plainly a political one was to have been the first of many such trips in which Mrs Kennedy planned to campaign- with her husband in 1964 Medics Terni Texan Good By Associated Press DALLAS Nov 22— GovrJohn Connally of Texas wounded hy the snipeF who assassinated President Kennedy was ‘in stable and satisfactory condition Friday night ne apparently had not learned of the President’s death doctors said Dr Robert W Shaw said Connally who underwent surgery for more than an hour was “in better spirits” He said he did I not anticipate Connally getting any worse ahd no further surgery was planned SHAW TTIE attending physician said the governor apparently was struck hy just one bullet that traveled through his chest hit his wrist and lodged in his thigh Connally rode In the same with Mr Kennedy car “How’s Nellie?” Connally asked after coming out of surgery speaking of his wife "How are the kids?” Connally former secretary of the Navy under Mr Kennedy has been governor of Texas since January 1962 —Associated Press Wlrephoto President Kennedy slumped down In back scat of car after being shot Friday Mrs Kennedy leans over President as uni- - dentified man stands on bumper Taken to Parkland Hospital in Dallas the President died in 30 minutes Irom bullet wound ' ’ ' ' ‘ He resigned as Navy tary to make the race secre- Three doctors were attending Map locates point where President Kennedy was fatally shot Friday as motorcade neared Connally Friday night —Associated Press Wlrephoto an underpass in Dallas He was en route (4 Dallas Trade Mart where be was to give talk ’ ' 1 |
