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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1963)
r SUNDAY, P resident ECe n n edy Ds ''""'v" ' ' ""' ' I ; President Lyndon B. Johnson, in a rain-spattered car, leaves his home Saturday for his office in the Executive Office building..The successor to the slain Pres. John F. Kennedy wears the anx- leties of the tragic hours that have elapsed-since the assassination Friday. (UPI) Many students of St. Mary's-Cathedral school in Portland, Ore., spent their lunch hour in prayer for President John F. Kennedy. Three-girls are shown here making the stations of the cross. (UPI) ; .: ' .' :. i As word of President Kennedy's death reaches the United Press International office in Seat- . tie, Wash., employes of the Seattle Post Intelljgencer receive it in quiet awe. (UPI) ' Pope Paul VI (center, front) kneels and prays in St. Peter's Basilica during a funeral service to honor Cardinals who died during the year. The Pope and attending prelates also prayed for the late President John F. Kennedy at the service. Earlier, in his private chapel, Pope Paul offered a special Mass for the late President. (UPI) NOVEMBER 24, 1963 A 1 riV?'V' - 0 0 By United Press International President Kennedy was tainty and fears of the devcl- mourned around the world to- oping nations in Africa." day on both sides of the Iron Queen. Elizabeth II said she Curtain. was "shocked and horrified," Heads of state acclaimed him. and ordered her court to go into Persons on the streets of Lon- mourning for a week. don, Tokyo, Paris, and Berlin Pope Paul VI, who met Ken grieved, as did many in Com- nedy twice, was offering a spe munist capitals. - cial Mass for the slain Presi- Newspapers eulogized him, dent's soul. He called the as- and some compared his death sassination a "wicked crime" with that of Abraham Lincoln, and prayed that the "sacrifice" In Berlin 80,000 persons, might help the cause of peace many of them weeping, and freedom, marched in a torch light parade Britain: The tenor bell of after midnight in demonstration Westminster Abbey rang out a of their mourning for the man requiem usually reserved for who only five months ago saw royalty, the Communist wall and said: Russia: Premier Nikita Khru- "Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a shchev cabled President John- ! Berliner)" son that the assassination is The first reaction was unbe- "a heavy blow to all people ; lieving shock. A London worn- who hold dear the cause of an, hearing the news, cried out: peace and Soviet-American co- "Who said that? I'll kill him!" operation." Then came sorrow. " Algeria: President Ahmed "Full of Life" Ben Bella said "this has moved "He was so young," sobbed us profoundly." Mary Ryan, an Irish third cou- Germany: Chancellor Ludwig sin of the President, "so full of Erhard said Kennedy "embod- life, so nice." ' led the Western ideals of free- i Sorrow gave way to anger, dom and the dignity of man," A Jmaman. u dld &sl s,naPPed , SwJedlsh cabdriver Jo Nolerud. , t "Kennedy was another Lin- dered the cancellation of all coin," a Russian student said plays, movies and sports events softly as he stood outside the for a day of national mourning. U.S. Embassy in Moscow. In a message to President John- "Rest in peace, John Ken- son, Tito said Kennedy's "trag hedy," said the London Daily ic death has deeply moved and Herald. "You helped us much." embittered us." ' . Behind it all day a sense of Ireland: The land of Ken loss and the fear of an unknown nedy's ancestors was stunned, future. Irishmen knelt on the' sidewalks "You mean Kennedy is dead? and wept when they heard the President Kennedy?" asked An- news. " , . ni Krauth, a German woman. Egypt: President Gamal Nas- "I'm scared!" ser cabled Mrs. Kennedy that Europeans, including such no- he was "shocked by this horri- tables as British Science Min- ble crime which took the life of ister Quintin Hogg (formerly your late husband in the prime Lord Hailsham) and leftwing of his youth." Italian Socialist leader Pietro France: President Charles de Nenni, wept at the news. Gaulle, who often differed with In the Vatican, Bishop Her- Kennedy during his life, said he man Westermann of Sambal- "died as a soldier under fire, pur, India, compared Kennedy's for his duty and in the service death to the "loss of (Mohan- of his country." das) Gandhi," Hindu leader as- Italy: Flags flew at half- sassinated by a fanatic in 1948. staff. President ' Antonio Segni Bishop Joseph Bowers of called the assassination ."a Ghana feared the assassination grave loss for all humanity." t 9- MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEUFORD, AAourned Throughout World "will arouse again the uncer- L?3 Z . , f naue called him a martyr of freedom and peace 2 4 A London Bubble reads of President Kennedy's assassination in special edition of the London Daily Sketch. (UPI) . OREGON 1 yjsjtl 'fllt-mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm fir ( . Former Vice President Richard Nixon looks, serious after arrival at Idlcwild Airport. He had been on a business trip to Dallas where the President was slain. (UPI) 0ff Appearing solemn, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, left, v Islts U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler in Moscow Saturday morning to sign a book of condolences for the late PrcsidentJohn F. Kenn edy. (UPI) I. 1 .'.-4. "4 , !j ( Hi ix. X -k:'' XX i''" s r r,'v vv,, tdtt J lJ ' ' f I r"""i"nli n minii r itiiii)iiBii(1i;iJj 1 Prime Minister Lester Pearson is seen here leaving the U.S. conveying his sympathies to the ambassador on the assassination -Ar :'; o Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam, expresses his shock at death of President John F. Kennedy. He said "I cannot express the sorrowj feel." (UPI) N Embassy in Ottawa, Ont., after of John F. Kennedy. (UPI) . 0 ,:'o : 1 . Si
