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SERVING BEND AND CENTRAL OREGON
60th Year
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Saturday, November 23, 1963
Ten Cents
No. 298
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DALLAS (UPl)-Lee Harvey
Oswald, accused murderer of
President Kennedy, has gunpow
der traces on both hands, in-
fav -fire
Shocked notion ready
to pay last respects
By ALVIN SPIVAK
United Press International Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (UPI) President Johnson and
former President Dwight D. Eisenhower today joined
the sorrowing widow and family of John Fitzgerald
' ICpnnpHv in navlntr respects at the bier of the fallen
dicating he recently used a rifle j president
! Joh""' accompanied by his wife and top gov
closed today. j eminent officials, walked across a narrow, barricaded
The sullen prisoner, formal-1 street from his second floor office in the Executive
ly accused of the assassination j Office Building to the White House. Eisenhower ar-
rived shortly thereafter.
DEAD PRESIDENT MEMORIALIZED A- requiem high mass for President John Fitzgerald"
Kennedy was held this morning at St. Francis of, Assisi Catholic Church in Bend. This
picture, by Nate Bull, was taken as Father Stephen Murtagh stood in front of the altar, at
the start of the mass. Four altar boys are shown kneeling. Present was an estimated 450
people, who joined in prayer for the President. ' '
Many closings planned
Area prepares to join nation
in mourning dead President
A11 slate, federal and DUblic I S
offices in Central Oregon will
be closed Monday, proclaimed
by Governor Mark 0. Hatfield
as a day of mourning for the
late President Kennedy.
The Governor also requested
all flags in the state be flown
at half staff until sundown
December 22.
In Bend and most other Cen
tral Oregon towns, state offices
closed Friday at 3 p.m. The
closure continued through today,
a normal holiday.
All schools in the state will
be closed Monday. R. E. Jew
ell, superintendent of the Bend
Public Schools, made a state
ment today, requesting students
- to "use the day h, such a man
ner as to show respect and
concern for our President and
our nation."
The Monday closing in Bend
will include the City Hall, the
courthouse and federal offices.
The local liquor store closed
yesterday afternoon, to remain
closed -through today and Mon
" day.
Join In Closure
The Deschutes County Li
brary and the Bend Camp Fire
. office will join in the closure.
The Monday schedule of City
Recreation Department activi
ties will be dropped.
A number of activities have
been called off tonight, but
others, because of difficulty in
re-scheduling or the nature of
the events, are going ahead as
scheduled
Cancellations include the
Golden Age Club public card
party, the welcome party for
American Field Service stu
dents, in the Bend High School
c a f e t e r i a, and Bend Shrine
Club's installation party at the
. Golf Club, and the Little Des
chutes Grange booster night
Stores, banks
to be closed
Bend stores and banks will
be closed Monday in respect
to the late President Kenne
dy. The decision was made
this morning at a special
meeting of the Bend Cham
ber of Commerce Retail Mer
chants' Committee, with Bob
Somerville as chairman. Some
50 merchants attended.
The closure will include
practically all places of busi
nesses except service institu
tions. Most restaurants, gro
cery stores and service (d-'
tions will be open.
The Bulletin will publish as
usual, but the business office
will be closed In the afternoon.
high school play, "The Night of
January 16th," has been post
poned until next Tuesday, with
curtain time at 8:15 in the
high school auditorium. A two-
night run had been planned,
but the Friday performance was
cancelled yesterday, and just
before noon today it was decid
ed to cancel tonight's show.
Square dance groups in the
area have decided to go ahead
with their sessions tonight.
Square Dance Set
Bachelor Beauts will have a
square dance for beginning and
intermediate dancers tonight at
the Eastern Star Grange Hall,
starting at 8 o'clock. This will
be the last night for newcomers
to enroll, according to Larry
Musgrave, caller.
The Sage-Hoppers, with Wiz
Wisdom as caller, will have a
square dance tonight at the
program at the LaPine School. Culver Grange Hall, starting at
The perlormance oi me ijena :ju. oKyune squares wiu meet
at 8:30 in the Central Oregon
Beauty College ballroom. Re
freshments will be served at all
three dances.
The Tumalo Grange will go
ahead with its harvest dinner
Sunday at 1 p.m. There will be
a short prayer service for the
President and the Nation at the
beginning.
The Eagles will go ahead
with their social activities to
night, to feature tribal dances
by the Warm Springs Boy Scout
troop at 10 p.m. The civic serv
ice award banquet will be held
Sunday at 1:30 p.m. as sched
uled, with initiation at 3 o'clock.
There has been no cancella
tion of the Moose dance to
night.
The Latter Day Saints Church
will not hold its spaghetti din
ner scheduled for next Monday
evening at the church.
Churches Open
Several churches were open
yesterday after news of the
President's death was received,
and all will be having prayers
for the Kennedy family and the
nation at Sunday services.
Trinity Lutheran Church has
designated Sunday as a special
day of humiliation and prayer,
with services to be held at the
usual hours.
Services in tribute to the
President will be held Monday
at 8 a.m. at the Powell Butte
Community Church, it was an
nounced today by the Rev. D.
L. Penhollow. the President
visited there on the occasion of
the Lord's Acre barbecue and
auction on Nov. 7, 1959.
Filled to Capacity
St. Francis of Assisi Catholic
Church was filled beyond capa
city this morning for a requiem
high mass in memorial to the
late President. An estimated 450
persons crowded into the church
by ambush Friday, refused to
take a lie detector test.
It also was disclosed Oswald,
24, once threatened former Sec
retary of Navy John B. Connal
ly, to "employ all means" to
redress a wrong he felt was
done to him by the Marine
Corps. Connally, now goveror of
Texas, was gravely wounded
when the President was killed.
Police said they could not find
a rifle supposed to have been
kept in the garage of Oswald's
home in suburban Irving. His
Russian wife said he had a rifle
similar to the one used to shoot
Kennedy and Connally.
Oswald denied all knowledge !
of the assassination.
Asked to take a polygraph
(lie detector) test, he declared:
"I don't have to take it and I
don't want to take it."
He asked for New York attor
ney John Abt. Thus far, he
has not had legal representa
tion. Oswald, a Marxist and Castro
sympathizer, ate a breakfast of
oatmeal, apricots, bread and
coffee and calmly awaited fur
ther questioning by police.
Manacled, his face cut and
bruised, his manner sullen, the
24-year-old political misfit and
Marine reject was booked on a
murder charge and jailed with
out bond.
"This is ridiculous," Oswald
said.
The maximum penalty on con
viction is death by electrocu
tion. Dist. Atty. Henry Wade said
he had 15 witnesses to the as
sassination. He said investiga
tors had learned from Oswald's
Russian-born wife that he had
a rifle of the type used to kill
the President and had it with
him the night before the assas
sination. "I believe we have the evi
dence to convict him," Wade
said.
U was the second murder
count brought against the ex
Marine in a hectic 10V4 hours
after the President was gunned
down as he rode in a motorcade
along a Dallas street.
Admits Owning Gun
Oswald also was accused of
slaying a pursuing policeman,
another charge he denied al
though he admitted he owned
the snub-nosed 38-caliber pistol
which felled the veteran officer.
When he was arraigned ear
lier on this murder charge. Os
wald responded: "I don't' Know
what this is all about."
Police claimed Oswald, who
qualified as a sharpshooter
while in the Marines, was in the
building from which the assas
sin fired the fatal bullet at Ken
nedy. But Oswald said it wasn't
so, that he was in a movie tne
ater. Find Murder Weapon
Police also found the import
ed rifle with the telescopic sight
which fired the fatal bullet Into
Kennedy's brain, but they said
there were no fingerprints on it.
Oswald was arraigned before
Peace Justice David Johnson
only a few hours after paraffin
tests had been made to his
hands to determine if he recent
ly had fired a weapon.
Police Chief Jesse Curry said
Oswald would be brought before
a grand jury next week.
Kennedy was shot at 12:31
p.m., CST. Mrs. Roberts said a
friend called her at 12:45 to say
the President had been shot.
Suddenly, she said, In rushed
Oswald, "on the dead run."
"He ran to his room, came
running back with a gray zipper
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Together, the man who succeeded the assassi
nated President and the man who preceded him walk
ed to the black-draped East Room and filed past the
big bronze coffin holding Kennedy's body.
Mrs. Kennedy and other members of the immed
iate family had viewed the body first. Mrs. Kennedy
was accompanied by her brother-in-law, Atty. Gen.
Robert F. Kennedy. He had been at her side much of
the time since her arrival Friday night from Dallas,
Tex., where her husband was mortally wounded be
side her from two sniper bullets as they rode in a
motorcade.
Public To View Body
The public was barred from the White House to
I day but Kennedy's body will be placed on public view
at the Capitol Sunday afternoon for a period oi aoout
21 hours.....
The funeral will be conducted late Monday worn,
incr. Manv hitrh world-leadersrincluding French Presi
dent Charles de Gaulle, Prince Philip and British
Prime Minister Sir, Alec Dougles-Home, plan to fly
here for the services.
It was not yet certain whether, Kennedy's chil
dren had been told of his death. There was an uncon
firmed report that Mrs. Kennedy took the children
this morning to the East Room, where the body lay
"in repose" today.
Former Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, the late
President's father, was not told until today of the
tragedy. The elder Kennedy is partially paralyzed
from a stroke suffered late in 1961.
One hour was set aside for the family and inti
mates of the 35th President to file past the bier. Then
high officials from Washington and around the coun,
try were being admitted. The public was barred from
the White House.
The casket was draped with an American flag
and lay on a catafalque, or platform, draped in black.
It was reported that the same catafalque, a century
ago, held the casket bearing the body of Abraham
Lincoln, the first of four presidents to be murdered
while in office.
Services To Be Held Monday
The body will be taken to the Capitol Building
Sunday, and thousands of persons are expected to
file Dast the casket during a period of about 21 hours.
Funeral services will be held late Monday morning
at St. Matthew's Cathedral and the late President
probably will be buried in the family plot in Brook
line. Mass.
Reporters were permitted to view the sombre
draped East Room, where the body was "in repose,"
for 15 minutes before the family arrived mis morn
ing. The casket was not opened however, until Mrs.
Kenncdv and the others arrived.
White House officials said they did not yet know
whether Mrs. Kennedy had told the sad news to her
children John F. Kennedy Jr., 3, and Caroline, 5 both
of whom have birthdays next week.
Two priests knelt beside the casket in silent pray
er. At each corner of the catafalque, an enlisted man
from each of the armed services stood at rigid at
tention. Decorated With Lilies
The casket was simply decorated with one bou
quet of white lilies and carnations. A candle burned
at each corner.
On the wall behind the casket were portraits
of Georee and Martha Washington.
The fireplace mantle was draped In black. So
was the entrance to the east wing of the White
House. So were pillars in the lobby which leads to the
East Room.
There was a large, walnut crucifix with an ivory
figure of Christ at the foot of the casket.
The body was brought to the White House at
4:30 a.m. EST today. Kennedy died in a Dallas hospi
tal Friday at 2 p.m., EST, the victim of two bullets
fired by a sniper.
A gray Navy ambulance carried the body of the
slain Chief executive from Bethesda Naval Hospital
through the streets of the nation's capital In the
dark hours before dawn. Hundreds watched in silence
as the ambulance entered the White House gate.
Behind closed curtains, with him in death as in
life, was his young wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy,
heavy laden with the burden of her grief. She was
still wearing the pink suit she wore In Dallas Friday.
Accompanied by the President's brother, Atty.
Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, she walked behind the six
military pallbearers who carried the flag-draped cof
fin into the East Room of the White House. , ,.
Will Lie In State
At 1 p.m. (EST) Sunday the President's body '
will be moved from the White House in a formal
funeral cortege to the great Rotunda of the Capitol,
more than a mile down Pennsylvania Avenue, there
to lie in state until 10 a.m. EST Monday.
At 11 a.m. Monday, the President's body will be .
removed to St. Matthew's Cathedral for a pontifical 1
requiem mass at noon. Richard Cardinal Cushing,
Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston, will be the
celebrant.
The President is expected to be buried near his
infant son, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, in the family
plot in Brookline, Mass., his birthplace.
President Johnson; former President Dwight D.
Eisenhower; Speaker John W. McCormack, D-Mass.,
next in line of succession to the presidency, and Chief
Justice Earl Warren paid their respects first.
Truman Arriving Sunday
Former President Herbert Hoover, who has been
111 in recent months, will not be able to attend, but
former President Harry S. Truman plans to arrive
in Washington Sunday.
Members of President Kennedy's cabinet, those
In the executive branch holding presidential appoint
ments and close personal friends paid their respects
next with associate justices of the Supreme, Court:
and members of the federal judiciary following; .
Senators, representatives and governors of the
50 states and territories together with members of
Washington's diplomatic corps, offering the formal
condolences . of their governments, were invited to
visit the East Room between 2:30 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Thousands upon thousands of citizens were ex
pected to file past the President's bier in the Capitol
Rotunda Sunday and Monday.
A chill autumn wind rustled the branches of the
stately elms lining the curving driveway at the White
House when the ambulance bearing the President's
body arrived from the Bethesda Hospital. The red
blinker lights of two accompanying police cars cast
an eerie glow..
Watch In Silence
Across Pennsylvania Avenue, in Lafayette Park,
hundreds watched in silence as the ambulance turned
in at the heavy wrought-iron northwest gate and
proceeded up the drive. Many of the spectators had
been there for hours.
An honor guard of servicemen met the ambulance
at the gate and marched slowly, solemnly before it
to the crepe-draped north portico, their Titles at tne
salute. High above, spotlights shone on the flag at
half-starf.
Black bunting was in place along the north wall
of the chamber, largest In the executive mansion.
The drive from the gate to the portico was bath
ed in the brilliant lights of television and newsreel
cameramen. The path was lined with scores of White
House staff personnel, many in tears.
The funeral mass takes its name from the open
ing words of the ceremony, "requiem eternam dona
eis, domina ..."
(Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord . . .)
Cardinal Cushing, who is celebrating the mass,
is a longtime friend of the President and the man
who performed his wedding ceremony in 1953.
The Most Rev. Patrick J. O'Boyte, arenmsnop or
Washington, was flying back from the kcumemcai
Council in Rome to assist Cardinal Cushing at the
solemn rites.
Saddest Church Mass
The funeral mass, the saddest of all the age-old
rituals of the church, does not usually lncluda a
eulogy.
At one point, the priest, clad In the black vest,
ments of mourning, will stand near the head of ths
casket and intone:
"O God. whose property it Is always to have)
mercy and to spare, we humbly beseech thee for th
soul of Thy servant, John, which today now has been
taken out of this world, that Thou deliver it not Into
the hands of the enemy nor forget it foreverj but
command the Holy Angels to receive it, and lead It
home to Heaven; so that, inasmuch as it has believed
and hoped in Thee, it may not suffer the pains of hell,
but may have everlasting joys."
Just before the casket bearing the body of the
President is carried from the church, the celebrant of
the funeral mass will address him, making the sign of
the cross as he does so.
"May the angels lead thee into paradise, may
the martyrs receive thee at thy coming and lead
thee into the holy city of Jerusalem; may the choir
of angels receive thee and mayest thou have eternal
rest with Lazarus who once was poor."
There will be no flowers on the altar at St.
Matthew's.
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