WEATHER NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI Increasing cloudiness and war• mer Monday. High 64·70. Mostly cloudy and mild Monday night with scattered .showers. Low near 45. Tuesday cloudy ab.d cooler with showers in the forenoon.
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Tupelo1 Mississ·ippi 1 Monday Morning# Novembe r 251 1963
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WASHINGTON (UPI) - John Fitzgerald Kennedy was given by his widow to the American people Sunday for their homage. In an incredible outpouring they filed past his ~ag-drai:ied coffin in the flood-lit Capitol rotunda long into the night. The patient throng that came to say good-bye stretched from the rotunda atop Capitol Hill for some 26 blocks. For one brief moment, at (9 :07 p.m. EST,) it was jo~ed , by the widow, Mrs. Jacqueline 1 ( Kennedy, who for the second > time in an emotion wracked day i knelt and kissed her husband's coffin. After the token of affection, she rose and stepped back looking at the crowds of fellow mourners. She appeared slightly dazed and finally her brotherin-law, Atty. Gen. Robert F . Kennedy, took her arm and led her away as the crowds con• tinued to file by. , i The people came from Wash'! ington and its subur\)s, and ) from the towns and citi~s of , \ America, arriving into the night ' r· on crowded trains, buses, . and WIDQW, DAUG,HTER AT GOF-i'IN , Mrs. Jacque\ planes. line Kennedy and her daughter Caroline are shown i Many of those standing six · and eight abreast in the long here as they moved close to President Kennedy's flag/ lines were among the officially draped casket in the Rotunda of the Capitol during pub1 estimated 300,000 that lined the lic ceremonies Sunday. Moments later Mrs. Kennedy ) procession route as, to the knelt and kissed the flag. - Journal Telephoto i muted cadence of muffled , drums, the body of the martyred President was bor~ to the Capitol down Pennsylvama Ave\ nue from the White House . ~ Mrs. Kennedy, a veiled ma~ donna in black, personally r e\ inquished her slain husb and to .> the people at the conclusion of WASHINGTON (UPI) - Her· She stood .without flinching. 1 the ceremonies within the great eyes were full of tears that Now she· had to stand and wait rotunda. never fell. som·e more. No speechmaking With tears near but never T;ice she swayed ·forward..:.. had been in the original plan. shed and with five-year-old so slightly that those nearest The plan was changed. There Cardline at her side, she walk~d her did not notice. were three speeches. to the bier , knelt with her child Once she blinked, but no They lasted only 15 minutes and kissed the corner of the tears fell. -15 minutes that seemed like covering flag. J li B · K d hours to many who witnessed John F. Kennedy Jr., who acque ne ouv1er enne y will be three years old Monday entered the great rotunda of the the ordeal by sorrow of the on the day of his father's fu . .Capitol at 1:58 p.m. EST. She bereaved First Lady. The first of the speeches neral was not so self-disciplined left 22 minutes later, her head • erect, her tears still unshed. at 2: 02 p.m. EST. The as his mother and sister · He She had watched intently started she turned toward the man stood quietly for a while but while the uniformed bearers face who was talking was the classic after a time tired and tried to gently placed the fla g-covered mask of tragedy. make friends with someone casket of her martyred husband 'I:here 'was the shine of tears nearby. A naval aide led him on the same catafalque on her eyes, but her lips never away. . which had rested, in the same in Monday is the widow's last place, the bodies of three other trembled. Once the long eye lashes day To in Walk public.Behind Ca-sket pres1'dents wh o h a d d'ied the drooped. F or an instant her.eyes Escorted by the late Presi- same way. closed, her shoulders sagged . dent's brother, Atty. Gen. Rob- She touched the black lace The moment passed. She bent ert F . Kennedy, and followed by which covered her dark h air. her head to say something to 50 She bent to say something to Caroline. Then she turned her h the dignitaries of more t an_ her children, five-year-old Caronations, she will walk behmd line, and John Jr., wbo will b e gaze again on the speaker. He was telling how, in Dallas ~ the casket a half-mile from the three on the day of his father's \ on F rida y, she took a r ing from White House to St. Matthews funeral Monday. \ I, A naval aide relieved her of her finger and placed it in her Cathedral f O r noon funeral services. John, who was getting wriggly. dying husband's hands. Her gaze went to the casket ' L Then it is across the river to Caroline remained at her mothreposing beneath the great 1 Arlington National Ce!-Ile~rY. for er's right hand. burial on a green hillside. Former President Harry S. dome on the ancient catafalque. So vast was the throng pay- Truman watched sympathetic- She leaned a little in the direcing their respects to the Presi- ally. The new President, Lyn. tion of her gaze. The speaker stopped. She dent that it was fortunate the don B. Johnson, was five paces decision had been made Satur- away. Standing beside Caroline thanked him. with the ghost of day to keep the rotunda open as was the dead man's brother , a smile. Another speaker st arted his remarks. G R b t F K d long as anyone wished to go A Whispers To Daughter .. . ther e. The original plans to tty. en. 0 er · enne y. All around the gr eat room Caroline's mother bent her close at 9 p.m. were discarded with its soaring vault stood the Saturday. great of this and other lands- head slightly and whispered to While the official estimate of congressmen, cabinet officers, the little gir l. She did it gravely, the mass along the cortege justices of the Supreme Court, without expression. A third speaker, the last, beroute was 300,000, some veteran ambassadors. Jacqueline Kennedy had stood gan his tribute to the . slain members of the Washington P0 • lice force said it was almost on the White House porch with President. Midway in his reimpossible to calculate the to- her children for nearly five marks the soldierly figure of ta! number of people in the city minutes waiting for her hus- Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy for the cer emonies. band's last ride to the Capitol swayed again. Again no one near her noticed. Again the One captain said it seemed to to get under way. be an incredible several million, - - -- - -- - - - - - - moment passed. She· lifted her eyes to the considering those .along the prosummit of the dome and closed ' cession route and those who Kennedy Memoria l them · briefly. H e r shoulders waited through the night. firmed again. The words of the All ages and colors and con- Rites Today In All speaker came to an end . ditions were represented, even · Bobby, Kennedy whispered the sightless. Six sailors filed by Tupelo Schools something., Soldiers carried the the bier, halted and faced the Memorial services for Pre casket, saluted an d walked sident John F. Kennedy will be red, white, and blue wreath of Johnson to the casket. away. held in each of Tupelo's eight President Jacqueline took the hand of ' Shortly after 7 p.m. Princess public schools this morning, ltadziwill, Mrs. Kennedy's sis- Supt. C. E. Holladay has an- her daughter and together they walked 15 paces to the catater, entered the rotunda and nounced. falque on which lay the reknelt briefly at the rail enFollowing the ceremonies, ea- mains of John Fitzgerald Kencircling the casket and honor ch student body will be asked nedy, 35th President of the guard of servicemen. to compose a telegram of. con- United States. Kisses Fhtg dolence to be sent to the KenThey knelt together at the Mrs. Kennedy's farewell kiss nedy family. Regular sessions on the American flag climaxed of all Tupelo schools will be head of the casket . Jacqueline Kennedy bent her head and Continued on Page l r held, Supt, Hollada)' . aaid, Continued on Page 17
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JACKSON, Miss ., Nov . 24 -.!.,~:.J,JI',(_ (UPI) - Gov. Ross Barnett, ACCUSED ASSASSIN SHOT - This was· the scene in the basement o~ t he one of the most outspoken critics of the late President Ken- Dallas, Tex. police st ation at the moment Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assas~m of nedy, has issued a proclama- P resident John F. Kennedy was shot and fatally wounded b~ Jack Rubenstien, a tion declaring a period of mour· Dallas night club operator who has bee n formally charged with murder. ning in Mississippi until after -Journal 'Telephoto by Bob Jackson of the Dallas Times Herald the funeral is completed Monday.
EuloQies ·For Pr·esident Kennedy Echo In Churches All Ov·er World
The proclamation ordered all state offices closed from eleven a .m. to one p.m. Monday, and requested that city and county offices and public schools suspend operations temporarily. Barnetit, who bitterly opposed United Press International the Kennedy administration's ciA great hymn of eulogy for vil rights program, left the pro, clamation to be released by his assassinated President Kenand prayers for his sucoffice as he flew to Washing- nedy cessor, Lyndon B. Johnson, ton to join other governors in welled up in churches both east paying their last r espects to and west of tl1e Iron Curtain the late President. Sunday and echoed to the far"All Mississippians, along with thest reaches of a saddened all Americans, sh o u 1 d' world. pause in the duties of t h e i r daily lives and p.ay final respect At the same Ume klngs, presand homage to the memory of idents, prime ministers and our late President," the pro • other dignitaries flocked to clam ation said. Washington by plane from all " Tlie abhorrent assassination. parts or the globe to pay homof President Kennedy by a ruth- age at the funeral Monday to les,s killer was a shock not only the Irish immigrant's grandson to the United States but to the they felt had given the · world entire civilized world.". new hope. Barnett also issued a stateTher e was a glaring exception ment in which he described President Kennedy as "a man of to the universal mourning. In great ability, a man of coura ge P eking, Red China's leaders and one who had the courage shed no tears over the passing of Kennedy, and took the occaof his convictions." "Per sonally, and as governor sion to launch a bitter attack of the state oi Miss-issippi, I on President Johnson, branding was pr ofoundly sh ocked and him a supporter of · the slain grieved when I learned of the chief executive's " trickery pola ssassinaition of President Ken· ic." Sums Up Sentiments nedy and the shooting of Gov. But the sentiments of the milConnally," said Barnett. "It indeed was a wicked and lions were summed up in a simcowardly act. I am sure that ple sermon in Westminster Abthe guilty party will be dealt bey in London by Archdeacon with in accor dance with the Edward Carpenter laws of Texas ." "President Kenneay br ought a Across the state fla gs were brea.th of fresh air into life," flown at half-staff. A freshman Archdeacon Carpenter told those football game between Mississ- attending the moving memorial ippi State and the · Univer sity ceremony, including Britain's of Mississippi was postponed, political chiefs and a delegation and all social functions at Ole of U.S. servicemen. Miss wer e cancelled until after "With his intelligence he had the funeral. a passion _ .. a rare combinaP lans were announced for a tion," archdeacon Carpenter special memorial service Mon- added. "It is passion that day morning at Mill~ai:is Col • moves the world. I think of him lege in Jackson. A similar ser- in his tremendous stand for vice was held Saturday at the civil rights, for the use of the University of Southern Mississ- technological resources of the ippi in Hattiesbur g. . world to feed the hungry, and J ack Reed of Tupelo, presi- his deep desire to find a homedent of the Mississippi Econo- land for refugees, irrespective mic Council, sent a telegram of creed or race. to Mrs. Kennedy expressing the "John Kennedy became an "sincere sympathy of all Mis- image of fr ee man , a symbol of hope, reminding men of what sissippians." State Education Supt. J . M. they might be." Tubb urged school officials to Mourning for K e nn edy "give proper observa•nce in the schools to the gr eat loss that our nation has sustained in the tragic and untimely dearth of our President." J ackson Mayor Allen C. Thom· pson issued the following statement : "The City Hall will be closHigh temperature in Tupelo ed all day Monday out of r es- was 60 and the low 30 Sunday, pect to our late President John giving a mean temperature of F . Kennedy, and the high office 45 according to Warning Center which he held." Director Charles Spain's report Similarly, all J ac kson club· for the 24 hours ending at 5 houses in the city parks and p.m., when the mercury stood all community houses will ob- at 52 degrees. No precipitation serve the Monday holiday clos- was recorded. Unofficial miding. night temper ature Sunday was " In keeping with the intent 42 degrees. of official proclamations regardOn November 24 a ye ar ago ing public activities M o n - the temperature reached a high day, the J ackson Public schools of 72 and a low of 33 without Continued on Page 17 precipitation.
Tupelo Chilled On Sunday; No Rain Recorded
Tupelo To Observe Period 0 f Silent Mourning Today 1
. Tupelo will observe a fiveminute period of silence this morning beginning at eleven o' 'Clock for the funeral of President Kennedy. Mayor James Ballard said the city of Tupelo, the ci t y schools, and the Community Development Foundation were joining in the observance,
Sirens and industrial whistles will blow at 11 o'clock to mark the beginning of the period of silence. The carrilon bells of the First Methodist Church will ring at ten minutes to eleven. Mayor Ballard asked that all flags in the city be flown at half mast.
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bridged the Iron Cur tain. and was onl~ the seco1;1d tim~ in 2'T stretched acr oss Africa a n d months m the S9v1~t capital he has won perm1ss1on !o hold into the Far Ea&t. service there- the previous OC· In Moscow, Soviet Premier casion was a service commemNikita S. Khrushchev dis- orating the death of P o p e patched First Deputy Premier John XXIII. Anastas Mikoyan at the )lead of In Warsaw, Poland, prayers a mission to attend the funeral Monday. were offered for Kennedy in Roman Catholic churches and Soviet Foreign Minister An- Monday a solemn Mass will be drei Gromyko said the loss of held in the Basilica of'Sf. J ohn. Kennedy "is not only for AmerJca bu.( for us all. It is a great In Jfome, Italian Jews held personal loss for me, beca·use services in memory of Kennedy I met him so many times," at the city's synagogue .. Gromyko added as he saw MiBuddhists Hold Service koyan's mission off at the airIn the Vietnamese capital of port. Saigon, several thousand BudOn Monday, an American dhists attended a special servpriest, Father Joseph Richard ice in memory of Kennedy at of New Bedford, Mass., w i 11 the main Xa Loi pagoda Sunsay a solemn high requiem day. The Rev. Thich Tam Chau, Mass for Kennedy in the Rus- head of the . General Buddhist sian Catholic Church of St. Association, expressed gratitude Louis de France in Moscow. It of Vietnamese Buddhist s for the moral support Kennedy had given their cause in the recent internal crisis that rocked South Viet Nam.
No Mail Wi ll Be Delive red Here Today
Out of respect for the late President Kennedy, the Tupelo· postoffice will halt most of · its usual work on Monday, it was announced by Phillip Means, assistant postmaster.
In the African ·st ate of Kenya Kipsigis warriors in their tribal garb of skins, feathers and war paint stood sobbing as they heard President Kennedy being eulogized by an African political leader. Ronald Ngala, Kenya African Democratic Union leader, called the late President a great fr iend of Africa.
There will be no mail de • In Vatican City, Pope Paul liveries, either local or rural, VI, who sent a delegation to and the windows at the post Washington for the funeral, tol4 office will be closed. a crowd of 30,000 persons in St. Special delivery service will Peter 's Square, that Kennedy's showed "how be provided, mail received will assassination he placed in individual boxes great a capacity for hate and at the post office, and mail evil · there is still in the world to the post office will be sent and how gr eat a threat to civil order and peace." out. The Pope took the occasion· of All post office activities will his r egular Sunday blessing to be stopped from 11 a .m. until comment on "the crime that noon, the time of funeral ser- has aroused the deploration of vices for the late President. the entire world." '
·o,eGaulle Leads World Statesmen To Funeral W A S H I N G T O N (UPI )French President Charles d e Gaulle Sunday led a parade of national leaders from all the world arriving in Washington to mourn the death of President John F. Kennedy. The austere French leader whose policies so often conflicted with those of Kennedy- but did not diminish his own respect for the younger Ameri· can-ruled out any statement on his arrival for the fu neral. French Embassy officials said he had cabled in advance "the time for mourning the dead is not the time for making statements ." DeGaulle, accompanied by his Foreign Minister, Ma ur ice Couve de Murville and other high-level French officials , was met at the airport by Secret ary of State Dean Rusk. There were reports he hoped to meet with President Johnson to sound out Johnson's policies before returning to Par is. There were no immediate announcements of meetings, but it was understood Johnson planned a reception Monday evening for the heads of the foreign delegations to the Kennedy last rites,
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Arriving shortly after DeGaulle were West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, his foreign and defense ministers , and Willy Brandt, mayor of the walled-off city of West Berlin. . The Weste,rn ~1~ Four wo~ld be completed wit~m .h?urs ~1th the arr.ival of Bntam s Pnnce Philip, Prime Minister ~ir Alec Douglas-Home, a~d Labor party Leader Harold Wilson. p . . F' t Soviet 1rs _Deputy rem~er Anastas I. Mikoyan, Premier Khrushchev's representative, was flying here from Moscow but would ·not reach Washirygton until Monday morning. . Merc hants
Comm'1ttee Urges Retail Stores Close Today 11 -12
The Merchants Committee of the Community Development F oundation has recommer.ded that all retail stores close their doors from 11 a .m. to 12 noon today, during funeral ser vices for President John F . Kennedy, Chairman R. W. Reed announced after a meeting of the committee Sunday1
DALLAS (UPI )- Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President Kennedy, was him· self shot and killed Sunday by a self-appointed executioner who carried out his vengeance in full view of millions of grie'ving Americans who watched it all on television. Oswald , 24, manacled to on,e of the scores of police officers guarding him for a scheduled transfe r from cit y jail to a maximum security jail, was fatally shot below the heart by a single 38 caliber bullet from a nickel-plated, snub-nose re~ volver. .. He was killed by Jack Ruby, 52, operator of a Dallas striptease nightclub and an arq.ent admirer of the sfain John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Ruby wearing a wide brim hat a 'n d atty brown suit, slipped through an army ·of security guards shortly befor@ 11:30 a .m. CST (12:30 p.m. EST) and confronted the accused slayer of the nation.'s 35th President. "You son of a bitch," he shouted firing the single shot which doctors said pierced Oswald's vital organs. Less than two hours later, _at 1:07 p.m . CST (2:07 p.m. EST), Oswald lay dead on an oper"' ating table at Parkland Mem<>rial Hospital, where Kennedy died Friday from bullet wound·s of the brain and throat. "I colJ].dn't help it ," the iih,ot.tempered" Ruby told h\,; we~ping sister , Mr s. Eva L. Grant , who visited him Sunday nipt after he was charged with .0swald's murder. Seen By Millions The shooting was seen by millions throughout . the United States who sat stunned In their living rooms as "live" television cameras recorded for history the fatal shooting of a ·m.a~ whose name will live in infamy. At the same instant, across the nation to the northeast; · a solemn cortege was bearing the body of Kennedy through the streets of Washington, lined by thousands of the tear-stained faces of his fellow Americans. The late President will be given a hero's burial tomorrow in Arlington National Cemetery. Ruby, portly and bal~g, was quickly subdued by eight police officers after the shooting. He was whisked to. a fifth floor jail cell in the city hall building. An ambulance rushed Oswald, a pro-Communim, proCastro ex·Marine, to Parkland Memorial within 10 minutes. There, 12 physicians went · to work trying to keep the accused assassin alive. One of them, Dr. Malcolm 0. Perry, said Oswald was "lethally injured" w:hen he arrived at the facility's emergency room. " Massive Injury" The single b u 1 I e t passed through his spleei:i, pancre.as, aorta, kidney and llv~r, caus~g what the doctors sa:1d was . a massive injury to organs and ·m assive loss of blood." Oswald was first taken to .a room in the hospital called "Trauma No. 2," just 10 feet from "trauma No. 1," in wh~ch Kennedy succumbed after bemg shot from ambush with Texas Gov. John Connally-who is recovering from chest and shoulder wounds in the same hospi~i~st victim of a televised d . h' t o ald said mur er ID IS or r, SW "absolutely nothmg _before or ·after he was shot," said this city's homicide chief, Will F ritz. Th case of th-e assassination cf J o~n F . Kennedy was "closed" , ·h ald expired Fritz told ~ en ,Osw , reporters . . Saturday, speaking to reporters and watched by Ruby, Fritz said flatly that "Osw,1~ killed President Kennedy." ~ evidence against the former Mar ine misfit was said to be irrefutable. Much of the case against Oswald has yet to be made public. Ruby, a bachelor, described by friends as "hot - tempered" and a onetime Chicago Street brawler, operates the Carousel Club, a dimly-lit walkup strip joint complete with runway. He also operates the Ls Vegas club in Dallas' Negro section. He was born Jack Leon ltubenstein in Chicago on March 19, 1911. His Chicago associates said he would bring into play his fists "at the drop of a hat". C~tinued on Page 11