| Show The Salt Lake Tribune Saturdayv November 23 19C3 Q tf President’s Obituary: A Great American Faced the Challenge By Associated Press John Fitzgerald Kennedy 33th President of the United States was the first American chief executive to face the possibility of nuclear war and to risk it with a show of force to protect Ameri- can interests But later he succeeded fat achieving an accord with Bus sia limiting nuclear tests Domestically he was confronted by a racial problem that contemporary epitomizeda world ISsue— the relationship between the black and white races WERE foreign prob- THERE lems old and new during his i Inherited from previous ad ministrations was the cold war with Soviet Russia Despite Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s determination to rid West Berlin of Allied occupation troops Mr Kennedy held American forces there way unsteadily toward stability economy and to avoid a possible recession and watched avidly the often with violence United States race into space the was In Europe there probwith the Russians lem of keeping the North AtlanThe nuclear crisis broke in the tic Treaty Organization intact— waning months of his second a problem enlarged by French year in office when he confront President Charles de Gaulle’s an- ed Khrushchev with a demand to nounced intention not to take di- remove Russian missiles set up rection or protection from the in Cuba and pointing at the HE KEPT American troops in United States United States 90 miles away Southeast Asia to thwart ComMR KENNEDY ordered a AT HOME iri addition to the munist penetration in that area naVal on such offenThrough economic help he sought integration crisis Mr Kennedy sive quarantine weapons being sent to the to aid Latin America a target became embroiled with the steel island nation said ships carryof propaganda from Cuban industry over a price increase Prime Minister Fidel Castro which he halted faced a nation ing them would be turned back and qalled on Khrushfchev tp avowed disciple of Khrujhchyv wide railroad strike which rewithdraw the weapons already in congressional action AND HE acted in similar fash- sulted there ion in Africa where newly fought for a tax cut which he For five days the nation and emerged nations groped their called necessary to spur the the world waited for word from expectation here Friday night was that President Johnson would ask Attorney General Robert F Kennedy to remain in the Cabinet IF ASKED would Kennedy accept That was the view of his closest friends and associates though they did not minimize the difficulty of his position In his brother’s administration Robert Kennedy played an extraordinary role as intimate adviser beyond his Cabinet duties on as atbe subhe will torney general ordinate to a man who symbolizes different forces in the country and in the Democratic IF HE stays NOW Party Inevitably Robert Kennedy will inherit some of his brother’s following He is a much more versial figure contro- In the long run it will be a great test for both President Johnson and Robert Kennedy to work together instead of fol- - Idaho Pays Tribute to Slain Chief By Aiaoclated Presi Idaho closed its statehouse in Boise Friday in a silent tribute to President Kennedy described by Gov Robert E Smylie as “one of the brillianWeaders of a brilliant generation” GOVERNMENT officials joined in expressing grief at the assassination of the President in Dallas— Flags were dropped to half on buildings throughout Idaho mast IDAHO STATE University- in dismissed afternoon Pocatello classes Gov Smylie ordered state house offices closed shortly after 2 pm He said a day of mourning would- be proclaimed on the day of the funeral - “PRESIDENT Kennedy was one 'of the brilliant leaders of a brilliant generation” the governor said “His untimely passing is a shock to the nation and to the world “ALL OF IDAHO will join in mourning this tragic event Our thoughts and prayer are with the family" Lt Gov JVillram E Drevlow home in Craigment President Kennedy “did a A person in jcent job :e trying to do right is not always appreciated by some people” saidathfs “THE LOSS of the President will be felt not only by this nation but by the entire free world” said Secretary of State Arnold Williams “The whole world must be shocked by this con-Fre- is g left-win- g (R-N- $ ft V inter-Americ- 1 i H V F i: i Marxist Arraigned Assassin Charge Faces pro-Cast- d Con-nall- nu-S- Calls to Tribune: Emotion Disbelief Pupils Meditate By Aisoclated Prs CORTLAND NY Nov 22 —“Can we pray today?” an boy at the Parker Elementary School asked his teacher Friday upon hearing of the shooting of President INCIDENT frem Clearfield High School were being escorted on a tour President Kennery Friday The Tribune’s switchboards were jammed by callers THEY HERE looking at a teletype newswire machine when the news was transmitted and they watched the unfolding of the most tragic news story of their lifetime The newsman escorting the students on their tour shouted to The Tribune’s day city editor “Come here quick the President has been shot tell the boss” THE NEW’S spread across shock the community like wave and for two hours after the fatal shots were fired The Tribune’s information service answered queries from an estimated 1000 callers v involving e the pupil was related over the school's public address system by Principal William Head who then directed the entire school body to “stand for a moment and silently meditate for our President" Official prayers were banned in public schools by a ruling of the US Supreme Court Moments after an assassin’s wounded bullets mortally nass Prayer THE The-cris- while r event” Kennedy sworn foe of the World On Sunday Oct 28 1962 came Intense "relief Khrushchev announced he had ordered work stopped on missile bases said the missiles would be crated and returned to Russia and promised that the United Nations would verify the dis- e and a US it was learned that promise not to in- cord as a “significant milestone in our efforts to maintain and gressional leaders had ’been vade Cuba it wa$ a deal summoned back to the capital Khrushchev’s fateful message further world peace’’ At the appointed hour a seri- came the next day He agreed Khrushchev sounding a simious stern President could be lar theme suggested that other RUSSLA ANNOUNCED 42 mediseen on the television screen “unsettled international probum-range missiles had been lems however complicated” Without wasting words he dismantled and shipped home could be resolved in the same outlined evidence of atomic The US Navy verified it by inspirit missile sites in Cuba specting freighters en route from mantling Cuba to Russia AS TIME W ENT on however He imohing Cuba which blamed Soviet Russia But the United States insisted there were indications that Laos’ had been assuring the 30 or more IL28 was not Mr Kennedy’s first jet bombers also coalition government of neutralUnited States it was sending must go and continued to de- ist right-winnaWith that small Caribbean and only defensive weapons to the mand verification was frail and insecure There tion island Meanwhile aerial surveil- really was no peace He ordered a quarantine on Soon after he was inaugulance continued Fighting raged in South Viet rated Jan 20 1961 Cuban ref- all such offensive weapons for Nam where the Communist Viet 1963 in administration Early ugees with United States backfrom the North fought to critics spearheaded by US Cong ing invaded their homeland in overrun the country and place B Kenneth Sen Keating an attempt to wrest it from it In Communist hands U S charged that Russian Castro The invasion was a military advisers tried to help troops still were maintaining and the fiasco government of President missile guarding medium-rang- e Ngo Dinh Diem but they spoke miliCastro’s Russian-buil- t sites they had previously con- of the Viet Nam involvement structed in Cuba- tary might crushed the inwith the infiltrated Communist vasion THE DEFENSE Department guerrillas in terms of years and in defections from reply publicly exhibited aerial millions of dollars Anticipated Castro’s forces failed to matephotographs purportedly showTHE SITUATION became furing how the Russians had de- ther rialize And the United States complicated in 1963 by a did not come to the invaders’ stroyed their intermediate and political-religiou- s outbreak inpolitical e medium-ranglowing independent sites U S prestige aid militarily — Buddhists a majority in volving paths Mr Kennedy at a news conabroad plummeted the country and the Roman ference “there FRIENDS thought Friday that acknowledged” Catholic Diem family te-WHILE THE invasion was in still is a body of Soviet military both would try to meet that test i The United States blamed Ngo progress Khrushchev warned equipment - and technicians” in in theinterest of the country Dinh Nhu the President’s brothto to Mr he Cuba disclosed the Unit“call a halt but Kennedy and of the party 'Moreover they er who was considered the sec& ! disRussia ed Russia States and the or were else inaggression” both have strong immediate ond "most powerful if not the would give “all necessary ascussing the possibilities of withterests pushing them toward most powerful man in the coundrawal in resisting the insistance” cooperation try vasion Mr Johnson assumes the Later the Kremlin advised it The drama came to a di- But the President replied: presidency toward the end of a was withdrawing more of its ' term and a bare half-yebefore max Nov 1 1963 island the from troops “In the event of any milithe Democratic national conVietnamese military leadeis tary intervention by outside With the Cuban crisis still simvention His interest in at least force we will immediately mering West Germany Chancel- captured key points- - in Saigon the short run must be' to hold President Kennedy on his re- lor Konrad Adenauer Cew to honor our obligations under the government and the party cent visit to Salt Lake City Washington tQ confer with Mr to the system together not to make drastic this hemisphere Kennedy on the Berlin problem protect changes against external aggression” Cuba and said ships carrying The divided city of West The attorney general has them would be turned back and East Berlin had been a Later in a speech Mr Kenjobs that he has wanted to get thorn since the end of World ne called on Khrushchev done nedy warned Communist foes W ar H 4 to withdraw weapons aland friends that Foremost among them is the and cease there the would United States on act prepready Khrushchev called West Berpassage of civil rights legislaits own against Cuba’s Reds if aration of missile sites H tion lin showplace of the Free World j United States u4 0 security was If this were not done he said surrounded by Communism a Despite Mr Johnson’s souththreatened ern background no experienced ' i “further action” would be bone that must come out of the itth ‘1 observer here Friday night This is what he did in Octo- taken Aerial surveillance would Russian throat He threatened i I H to sign a separate peace treaty doubted that he would push for 4r ber 1962 continue he added £ with East Germany and turn the passage of a civil rights A WEEK before Mr Kennedy over access to West Berlin to The nation’s first inkling came bin the East German Communist Sun Oct 2L There were re- made his broadcast aerial NO LESS THAN total cooperat addhe continue would of tension government The East Germans ip ports Washington rA t tion between him and Kennedy H whom the western powers did were unable to ed newsmen but ifyij will be needed to get it through said the city The days following the quaran- not recognize pin down the cause a reluctant Congress tine announcement were tense should be theirs The attorney general received ON M 0 N D A Y it was anKHRUSHCHEV —Associated Pres Wlrephoto stepped up nounced Kennedy would address Military forces were built up word of the shooting of his his offensive by questioning the brother while he was having Mrs Eunice Shriver and Sen Edward M Kennedy sister and the nation at 7 pm on a mat- in the Southeast inviolability of western air ae lunrif Friday with the United brother of the slain President head for Hyannis Port Mass ter of greatest urgency Mean- The Organization of American cess to Berlin States attorney fop the southern States met the next day and The West insisted on its right district of New York Robert M adopted a resolu- to unrestricted use ofjhe air unanimously Pro-Castro Morgenthau tion offered by Secretary of State corridors between W$s Ger— Associated Press Wirephots © They were at Kennedy’s Dean Rusk authorizing “the use many and West Berlin President Kennedy during his home In snbnrban McLean of force individually or collecTHROUGHOUT THE spring term in the U S Senate Va blockade to enforce the tively” Ex-Defector With that legal backing Mr Ken- and summer of 1962 Mr KenJustice Byron R White of the to Khru- and attacked the presidential nedy issued the proclamation to nedy issued warnings Supreme Court an old friend 10 am the shchev that the Western Allies palace effective at become and the attorney general’s depuDALLAS Nov 22 (UPI) -Police Chief Jesse Curry shells One cartridge remained next Soon after dawn Nov 2 the Russian intended to remain in West Berday Twenty-fiv- e ty before going on the bench Lee Harvey Oswald 24 a said he would be brought be- in the chamber of the rifle lin fell Diem and his brothto route en were palace reported ships came out from town to be with Marxist who defected to fore a grand jury next week He repeatedly asserted that er were dead Cuba him The director of the Cen- Russia in 1959 was Oswald born was in New charged Frithe United States would stand THE tral Intelligence Agency John day with the assassination of “Police made paraffin tests on Orleans Oct 18 1939 UNITED States which MEANWHILE United Nations by its pledge to defend West considered the Oswald McCone came over from the President he several hours before who was ’ U Thant asked General Country vital to Kennedy Acting Berlin Twenty years later on Oct was charged formally nearby CIA headquarters the Western defense position in ambushed with a 30 1959 he appeared at the both Mr Kennedy and KhruSoutheast Asia and had Invested In June of 1963 he POLICE ALSO charged the TIIE ATTORNEY general’s rifle American Embassy in Moscow shchev to suspend both the arms billion dollars in aid and in s visit to West 2 this for Marine reject with the arms and blockade shipment wife Ethel g 0 1 the children OSWALD MADE no confession telling officials that he wanted 16500 troops watched closely nehe offiof where murder weeks a was two Dallas or three Germany police pending to renounce his American citihome from school Their father and insisted he knew nothing In an assessment of his first walked with them on the back about the assassination of the cer shortly after the President zenship AC the time he was re- gotiations Khrushchev accepted greeted enthusiastically in office Mr Kennedy told was slain a year a to by coopersniper firing Washington agreed lawn and under the tall bare President or the serious woundported to have told officials that To a West Berlin throng he de- a news conference that failuie rifle the window from to confrontation ate a avoid military trees "I am a Marxist- ”y scribed himself as “a Berliner” to reach agreement with the ing of Texas Gov John of a building in downtown At 5 o’clock Robert Kennedy the TWENTY HOURS after asserting that “all free men Soviet Union on a nuclear test THE FBI confirmed that OsDallas drove to the Pentagon building Manacled his face battered in was issued a Rus- wherever they may live are citi- ban had been his greatest disproclamation wald did to and Russia had go He talked with Robert S Mc- a POLICE said Oswald worked sian ship carrying oil was inter- zens of Berlin” fight with the police who subappointment He achieved a Namara the secretary of de- dued him in a movie theater in the Texas School Book De- asked for Soviet citizenship He allowed to proIt was test ban in 1963 his limited cepted been had recently discharged West Berlin was not Kenfense for 20 minutes and then less than four miles from the ceed pository Building After the as- from the Marine Corps third year in the White House the two men flew by helicopter assassination scene Oswald was sassination Tension mounted The Krem- nedy’s only worry police found a 765 Oswald told the embassy offito Andrews Air Force Base to taken before Justice of the German Nuclear testing had been lin stalled On Friday Oct 26 Army Mauser rifle in The United States was incials that he planned to tell Someet the plane carrying the Peace David Johnson for ar- the building constant problem atthe State Department called volved with the Communists in body of John F Kennedy Beside it were "three empty viet officials everything he tention to the President’s speech such far off places as Laos and In raignment learned while he was a radar September 1961 Russia in which he said if missile site South Viet Nam in Southeast moratorium junked a three-yea- r operator during his three-yea- r preparations continued “further Asia in atomic weapons attributing enlistment in the Marines action will be justified” its decision to pressure from IN MAY OF 1962 Mr Ken Embassy offficials said RusAT 9 PM THAT night a let- nedy dispatched U S naval air “imperialistic countries” sia never granted Oswald’s reRussia proceeded with the ter arrived from Khrushchev and land forces to the Thailand quest for citizenship tests in Central Asia between Although not explicitly stated it Laos border because of a In February 1962 he appar- contained an offer to withdraw seizure of control September and November offensive Laos under of the He had of of most northern a heart weapons ently change KHRUSHCHEV said one blast write the fembassy asking for a UN supervision in return for The maneuver was intended to in the series was on the plus passport to the United States a guarantee the United States demonstrate United States com- side of 50 megatons A In the meantime he had mar- would not invade Cuba mitment In Thailand’s defense blast is equivalent to 50 milried a Russian woman Marina The following day — Saturday and to place more troops closer lion tons of TNT Nicholaevna a hospital employe —a second note from Russia of- to landlocked Laos The- - Soviet action caused a in the city of Minsk They have fered to trade Cuba bases for of angry protest and alarm wave TWO MONTHS later a treaty one child US bases in Turkey the danger to humanity over of the establishing neutrality The White it created that EMBASSY officials reviewed THE UNITED STATES par- Labs was signed in Geneva by The House denounced it as a device conference his case Since he had not been rying the Turkey bid advised a to incite “fright and panic” given Soviet citizenship It was Khrushchev that if he was of- treaty carried a protocol provid After Russia’s renewal of decided to give him a passport fering to remove offensive weap- lng for withdrawal of foreign to the United States ons for an end to the blockade troops Kennedy hailed the ae Page 10 Column 1 Bobby Stays in Cabinet If Asked Friends Say C New York Times Service WASHINGTON Nov 22-- The Khrushchev sixth-grad- called Some in obvious shocked disbelief asking If The Tribune had word OTHERS CALLED voices choked with emotion to ask for confirmation that the Presi— Associated Press Wlrephoto Lee llarvey Oswald 24 holds up his manacled hands as he b led through police station in Dallas where he was charged with murder in the assassination of President Kennedy I C 1 dent was really dead When the first bulletin was received in The Tribune newsroom six journalism students - THE DAY city editor grabbed the bulletin raced to the executive office and by that time at least a dozen reporters were gathered around the bank of newswire machines Hardened reporters who deal w ith death and violence as a matter of routine were shaken their faces drained of color The news was not official yet that the President was dead CALLS HENT out to all available staff writers and editors to get to the office as rapidly as possible— it looked like a long and day ahead The Clearfield students moved away from the wire remachines as the porters moved in nerve-shater-in- g y girl ONE CLEARFIELD confused and shocked at the tragic news asked “Why? Why would anyone want to dp that to the President?” Even the sports and the fi- nancial newswires were cleared for transmission of de tails of the President’s assassination in Dallas Tex NO ONE KNEW how badly President Kennedy had been shot but they speculated he was mortally wounded when tire word came that two Roman Catholic priests had been summoned to the hospital A former police reporter remarked “This is terrible If tills can happen in America only the good Lord knows what else can happen” amid all Uie'don-fusio- n the word came The six students went back to Clearfield Reporters moved awqy from the teletypes to get ready to handle one of the most and tragic stories of the Twentieth Century The President was dqftd FINALLY |
