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M i iTIf Flies Ears USPECT I '3s f "“f’ ii i j thrifts -- faw- J fcBS i it —Associated Press H lrephoto Front pages ol seven British national daily newspapers blare the news of President Ken-- J j r nedy’s of Mrs assassination'’ Picture Kennedy Is cablephoto bending over her husband Prayers Grief in Comments U S Press Extols Kennedy By Associated Press “There will doubtless memorials to John F be The nation’s newspapers Saturday expressed the people’s grief at the assassination of President Kennedy and said the - “The best one that the nation murder was “a blemish on could create however would be the thorough investigation of the American civilization” of the crime the resocauses Editorial comments included: lute determination to see to it New York Times: ‘‘All of us— that never again should tinder from the country’s highest lead- be scattered around that might ers to the humblest citizen— all lead to such an evil blaze” of us are still in a state of shock from this stunning blow that Baltimore Sun: “Yesterday’S even now seems unreal in its first shock of horror gives way this morning to A depth of sor-ro- r grotesque horror There beyond expression “John F Kennedy died in and Of great the belief of those hu- is the tragedy for man rights to which this nation tasks unfinished of the plow stopped part way down the furhas always been committed row the house left standing in “No madman’s bullet can framework the story checked No one fcan now stop this inexorable march of human rights no murder say what Mr Kennedy’s accomhowever tragic can make it plishments would have been had he lived” falter mid-senten- “In death as in life the words and spirit of this our most newly martyred President will lead the nation ever closer toward fulfilment of the ideals of domestic brotherhood and international peace by which his administration has been guided from the start” New York Herald Tribune— “Americans take consolation from the fact that the assassins of their presidents have in nearly every case been crazed “The heat of normal politics has its reflex on the lunatic fringe New Orleans “With the suddenness of the rifle shots 200 million people were nation and to the world by the immersed in great sorrow There’s no real mystery For tragic assassination of President are Kennedy brings home to all among humankind always men of imbalance of Americans the great sacrifices twisted mind warped concepts and dangers faced by our naand strange causes Some with tional leaders a deep and ugly malice toward “The leadership of a man their fellow beings Often their unusually suited to project the hate centers upon those in high great power of America has been cut down at a time when a places” strong flexible program is most Philadelphia Inquirer: needed John Fitzgerald Kennedy had so much to live for so many fruit- - “AS WE PONDER and try to ful and rewarding years to look recover from these tragic events forward to And then crudest we must pause for a moment of silent prayers for President Kennedy and his bereaved family remembering t h e American presidents who have given their lives for their country “We can thank God for the contributions of all of them” Times-Picayun- there By United Presi International tp safeguard peace has fallen The newspapers of the free beneath a criminal’s bullet” world joined in a single voice West Berlin Telegraf: “The Saturday to mourn the death of German people are united in d President Kennedy with editorials calling him deep homage to a man whose heart beat for the freedom of a champion of liberty Germany and the freedom of The press in the Communist Berlin” bloc nations also expressed West Morgenpost: sorrow over the assassination “The free world has lost its One Communist newspaper leader” the London Daily Worker Helsinki Sanomat: " A mixed criticism with grief CHICAGO TRIBUNE: “Mr Kennedy is dead after only 34 months in office He bore enormous responsibilities in a troubled world and met them with fortitude and hope “It will be recorded of him that he constantly labored to maintain peace in the world that he was willing to go a step for every grudging step in that direction taken by the Communists and that he would not permit himself to suffer discourcatastrophe reaching ovef state agement in his quest” IT ATTACKED Mr Kennedy frontiers and the world split by umph over the awesome probfor “hatred of Cuba” and lems which confronted political ideologies civil rights policies “It affects the whole history young man less thdn three years Editorial comment included: of the world” ago” black-bordere- Berlin this - John Ken- - nedy You helped us much” The Manchester “A tragedy for the Guardian: world” r en--t- By Robert J Serling United Press International t nerald: “An inter- national disaster “He Was the Captain Courageous of the western alliance the true friend of Britain and the embodiment of all that is greatest in the tradition of thp American presidency” Paris Liberation: “One of the in the greatest catastrophic world” Lisbon Dinrio Pe Notieias: “The most powerful man on earth who has done everything iff lim-we- - V She toured the Athens Greece if i —Associated Presi Wlrephoto These are pictures of President Lyndon B Johnson as a baby and a young man in Texas The exact dates when pictures were made are not known Picture at right reflects his ranch background which reflects in his mostly Conservative attire Amid Grief at White House Idaho Orders Jackie Instructs Staff to Pack © Washington Post Co Nov 23 -JWASHINGTON acqueline Kennedy confronting inner bereavement with a thousand decisions no one can make for her arose after only v - w '"W"' few hours sleep Saturday morning to instruct her staff to start packing for her family’s departure from the White House IRONICALLY Mrs Kennedy a x discovered Nov 23 - The IN PRIVATE conversations and In books published by top officials after f Though shy in those days she quickly displayed a flair for business 'V V f She parlayed a $67000 family inheritance into a fortune in land and investcompanies ments worth more than a million dollars— without the help of her husband SHE MEETS A weekly paystaroll for her tion KTBC in AustinTex keeps the family’s tax records and handles stacks of mail both person and official By Aisoclated Pres Idaho will observe an official day of “mourning and fast” Monday with government offices and schools dosed all day and most businesses closed noon for the funeral of President Kennedy until GOV ROBERT E Smylie will fly to Washington Sunday to join' the host of dignitaries at the services The Idaho National Guard will fire a salute to the dead President m Boise Monday at 10 am and flags throughout the state will remain at ' f & n half-staf- GOV SMYLIE not only proclaimed Monday a day of mourn-- i y big but proclaimed a period of mourning which began Mrs Kennedy set an Inspiring example here Saturday of Friday apd continues until sunof down Dec ?2 Schools and govcourageous acceptance ernment offices will reopen Tuesdeath t day however “It Is as if she has postponed f Flags will remain at her own grief” said a close until the period ends family friend “It Is her paraMOST SCHOOLS announced mount thought to stay strong until after Monday’’ and then go they would be closed Monday where she can be alone to come as recommended by Ross Barto terms with the realization of ney assistant superinendent of her loss” public instruction He acted in the absence of D THOSE WHO gathered to susF Engelking the superintendtain her have found that she ent who is in Phoenix Ariz gives more than she receives in THE VERY' REV N E the exchange of comforting Walsh diocesan director of parowords chial schools in Idaho said all Saturday morning just before a private prayer service in the 26 Catholic elementary and three White House East Room for high schools will be closed Monand children will take part family and closest friends she day took both her children by the in special services and Masses hand and led them downstairs in their parish churches the state many from the family quarters where they had spent churches conducted special memorial services and more are die night planned Sunday Mrs Kennedy’s own quiet GOV SMYLIE in his proclahelped the mation ordered banks closed youngsters get through the y i sV - Vi u 1 t Claudia Alta Taylor — Lady Bird even in her husband’s Official biography — was bom 50 years ago ip Karnack Tex I r'X’f She willbe 51 ypars old on Dec 22 a in they left the service agents admitted that chief executives riding In open cars down crowded streets were af their most vulnerable as the targets ' of assassination For motorcades the secret servMany precautions are taken against ice checks every manhole cover and such attempts -- Before a presidential sewer along the parade route for visit to any city agents visit local bombs or dynamito police and obtain photographs of Buildings frequently are checked known cranks insane presidential-hater- s along with the records of Occupants to and other dangerous citizens In make sure there are no known presisome cases the families of such dential "haters” on the premises men are asked to keep them off the streets or even out of town during a (IT IS NOT known whether this president’s visit precaution was taken in Dallas but historic Day Month Of Mourning half-staf- n - FROM POLICE photographs of men on the crank or criminal lists agents memorize faces so they can pick them out of crowds The advance security measures taken before a presidential trip have been known to fill a 1000-pag- e book her of the executive mansion only added to the complexities with which she must cope She cannot simply use professional packers and movers Only she can sort her personal from ' among the possessions furnishings she solicited from donors to remain permanently in the White House By late afternoon President Kennedy’ office was bare except for a new jug and the desk he had used The desk had nothing on it but two telephones HJs famous rocking chair also was removed from the White House ceptance Hundreds o times the Secret Service has swqrn out Warrants against potential assassins to keep them behind bars until the president has left the scene that restoration Anyone else would have to consult catalogues and files in a tedious cross-chec- k down because she would have had to make a speech of ac- NAME BECAME even of a permanent fixture after her marriage to Johnson in 1934 for the initials fitted perfectly into what is now a Johnson trademark: LBJ t U d THE more V s( audiences It was a fear so that when she was offered the valedictorian medal upon graduation from the University of Texas in 1933 she turned it She acquired her nickname as baby when the family cook Karnack declared that she was as “purty as a lady bird” It stuck despite repeated efforts to cast it off J A slums of deep-seate- A p: ANITAS ONE OF Washington's most active hostesses Mrs Johnson carried out her “roles as vice president’s wife with a zest that few of her predecessors had shown Threatening (he life of a chief executive is a criminal offense ’ Glasgow 4 administration figure has put it “He keeps to the main line and moves quickly to the top abil-capit- ol -X -- 'T -- J? V x' ' r V H& r V'i flfTftfriif&a —Associated Press Wirephoto Mrs Lyndon (Lady Bird) Johnson the new First Lady ol the United States presents a closeup study in a black lace hat agents in the past have pointed out it is impossible to check every occupant entering parade route buildings on the day of the parade itself) Agents assigned to the White House detail are the elite of service Each must have two years of held service They must be trained in foreign who guarded Franklin Roosevelt during the war years remarked once: “Every man who joins the seivice is told he’s expected to use his body as a shield if necessary and if the agent didn’t think the risk was worth the salary he could work in any of 15 other secret service districts in tire United States" They must pass ruthless (ests in marksmanship judo and even first aid There are two absolute rules for motorcade protection They are trained never to watch the President himself but the people and crowds are sworn to around him They also throw themselves in front of their trust at the first indica’ion of gunfire to take the’ bullets if possible meant for the chief executive THERE IS NO doubt that every agent would" have sacrificed his life for John Fitzgerald Kennedy Friday if he had had a chance Michael Reilly one of the agents The agent running or riding at the President’s shoulder must never leave that position unless relieved AND TI1E OTHER is to turn out the service cars manpower in all the moment trouble arises and literally got secret service bodies around the President the service knows Unfortunately that a long range rifle fired from a window along a parade route sends its deadly load faster than any hitman can move Across private i & Motorcade Attack Iia un led Seere t Service United States Secret Service guardiThe Times of London: “The ans of American presidents for 61 assassination of President Ken- years has feared a motorcade assassination attempt more than anything nedy is a shock great enough to shake the structure of the else world” He runs to newspapers and maSazineS and t0 maSSeS 01 oI ficial documents- - But as one the composure beart-rendin- WASHINGTON predecessor Johnson has been heard praise McGeorge Bundy for1 his National Secunty Council briefing as the kind he likes: “He just lays it on the line ra- zor sharp and crisp" The associate went on: Mr to jM ' Dally “RcsMn peace The new President is no devoured of books as was his “AFTER A MAN moves into gut issue" presidency by succession le wans t0 have the office in1 MANY FEEL that this bis own right That may be even ity to discern the heart of a rmore so n ll Johnson’s case problem to know the outer of accommodation because of his inordinate ambi-Jit- s to real- ize where the power lies— all Another Johnson’ friend has characteristics which proved I called him “a most complicated themselves so well when he was One man who has worked man” who can talk in Texas majority leader — will serve closely with the new Presi- - parables yet “walk off with your President Johnson in the White J dent said he likes short clothes” House A Lyndon B Johnson is the most politically minded woman to the White House as first lady since Mrs Franklin" D V Roosevelt of fates to be struck down at She 'stood in a Peace Corps the hands of a hidden' assassin whose evil motive had to spring chow line in Puerto Rico She visited depressed area projects from a twisted mind” in West Virginia LOS ANGELES TIMES: She guided an illiterate camel “Every true American regard- driver from Pakistan around less of his political philosophy Washington and treated him and every citizen of the world like a visiting monarch who hdldi'mankind’s good in his HER OWN VIEW of being the soul is shocked beyond belief wife of a public official was by the murder of John Fitzger- summed up a few months ago ald Kennedy when she said: “For 25 or 26 years I’ve been “More than just a man was on the other end asking people slain in the streets mostly voters to do things for “Mr Kennedy at 46 had just Lyndon and the party crossed the threshhold of rich “Now I feel I have an oblimaturity as the prime defender gation to them” of global integrity against comAs frankly political as her munism husband she stumped the coun“OUT OF President Kennedy’s try in I960 seeking votes for the martyrdom let us all pray will Democratic team of emerge new strength to drive ahead to persevere and to tri- TO PREPARE for the 1960 CLEVELAND PLAIN DEAL- campaign she (took speaking ER: “The shocking 1 o s s to the lessons to overcome her fear of World Editorials Mourn ‘Champion of Liberty’ London Herald: “The Stalins of the world mostly die in their beds It is the Lincolns and the Kennedys who are shot down memos short meetings and quick derisions f& Bv Marjorie Hunter © New York Times WASHINGTONNov 237rMrs i jj' AS MCE president he w as by the nature of the post suspend- ed between the executive and c Wklative-hranrheHe had an offlce in the executive office building across the street from llie White House But he spept more time in his vice presiden- tia' offee just off the Senate floor He once told a visitor to that office: “I w'on’t sav i wouldn’t like to be out iri the of the Senate pounding my fist and saying ‘Let’s go’ but I want to do the best job I can” SS?A l£ feftaStS together” Life Sketch: Meet New First Ladv HELD Wl V"Xmuu i - 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( JSHf 1 " f ? ' Mt "" ment now 0 reflect he might ft VASHINGTON Nov 23— weu ' agajn what he said on What kind of a man is Lyndon I960 5 when he entered I B Johnson? What kind of a July for the Democratic the on (luest president will he make? How nomination presidential wiil he differ from John F Ken“Since 1937 in FDR's time" stud the then Senate majority THESE ARE the questions up-- ‘ ioa(jeri "j have known the pres- permost in Washington’s mind 1(jency— and the men in it— inti-- j indeed in the minds of leaders mateiy I cannot truthfully say on both sides of the Iron Cur-ja- t any man is qualified for it tain all around the world ijn advance” There is of course no simple And he expressed his phianswer to any of these ques-tions Indeed it'is probably that losophy as “progressive — the new chief executive could prudent without being radical say no more than what he said conservative without being to the American nation on Friday: “I will do my bestThat The President has is all I can do" always said that “politics is the IF HE WERE to have a mo- - science of the possible” and his i j Dally Herald x All b C Washington Post Co 1 tea- “ November 24 1963 New President’s Credo: 4Let Us Reason Together - 1 Sunday g moment with- out tears They clung closely to her Caroline who will be 6 on remained for the Wednesday services sitting close to her mother John Jr whose 3rd birthday is Monday stayed outside during the services MRS KENNEDY told the new First Lady Lady Bird Johnson that she would be glad to help her in any way The offer was made during a 30 minute visit of President and Mrs Johnson with Mrs Kennedy in the family quarters of the White House Saturday afternoon former President Harry S Truman arrived and spent about 13 minutes with Mrs Kennedy She and the children stayed at the White House night Before visiting Mrs Kennedy President and Mrs Johnson went to the East Room where the body of President Kennedy lies In state t Saturday Similarity High: Lincoln JFK By Aisoclated Prew NEW YORK Nov 23 -S- triking similarities in the presidential lives of John F Kennedy and Abraham Mr Lincoln wan elected 1860 and Mr Prer’dent in Kennedy 100 years later in I960 Both were credited with fighting for equal rights for Negroes BOTH WERE assassinated on a Friday Mr Llncr’n on April 15 1865 at the age of 56 Mr Kennedy on Nov 22 1963 at the age of 46 Both were succeeded by ' 1 Presidents named Johnsoiv-- in Mr Lincoln’s case it was Andrew Johnson In Mr Kennedy’s Lyndon B Johnson ' |
