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Newspapers Handled Assassination in Way Unmatched for Generation
By United Press international
A nation commands its
brightest deeds in its darkest
hours.
To honor their public trust
and rally a shaken people in
the dark hours after the slay
ing of President Kennedy, the
nation's newspapers mobilized
resources in a manner un
matched for a generation.
It was a triumph of nerve un
der pressure, of professional
writers recording in straight,
terse sentences the assassina
tion of a president. It was a
triumph of fast editorial decis
ions, of sure-handed presswork,
of speeding delivery trucks rac
ing the news to the streets.
"We can all take pride in
how we performed," said Lloyd
Wendt, editor of Chicago's
American. "
Don Codispoti, copy editor of
the McKeesport (Pa.) Daily
News, who has been in the
newspaper business for 17
years, said: "It was the first
time I ever heard anybody yell
'Stop the presses!' "
Special Editions
And the presses did stop
across the nation when that shot
rang out in Dallas. Then they
roared again, grinding out spec
ial edition after special edition:
The President is dead.
Newsboys hawked extras
from Long Island to San Diego.
There was an eager hand for
every copy.
Many editorial and mechani
cal employes worked virtually
around the clock. Type was set,
then discarded before it could
be smeared with a drop in ink.
Advertising and standing feat
ures were pushed aside to make
way in what Stewart MacDon
ald, manager of the American
Newspaper Publishers Associa
tion Information Service de
scribed as a "tremendous pub-i on television. . .we needed things
lie service." with thought behind them."
J.' Paul Austin, president of
the Coca Cola Co., said the
world is indebted to the nation's
newspapers "for your fantastic
accomplishment which will,
without doubt, be credited with
helping to keep our nation uni
fied through enlightenment in
what was a time of crisis and
what might have been a time
of public panic." .
William German, news editor!
of the San Francisco Chronicle,
said, "the nagging question
was what our role was, since
everybody had seen the news
It was a question to which
editors across the land were
finding many answers.
Problem Compounded
At the Elyria (Ohio) Chroni
cle Telegram the problem Was
compounded by a major disaster
at nearby Norwalk, where 63
persons died in a fire. The
Chronicle Telegram threw out
three pages of regular features
to make room for the two great
stories.
Cartoonist Bill Mauldin of the
Chicago Sun-Times met a dif
ferent kind of challenge.
With only an hour before an
engraving deadline, Mauldin
completed a drawing of a griev
ing President Lincoln which was
reprinted as far away as Mos
cow. His original is being
framed for presentation to Mrs.
Jacqueline Kennedy, at her request.
Paul Schoenstein of the New:
York Journal-American said his
key staffers had "an almost
sleepless siege from the time
the flash came in on the shoot
ing until the time of the funeral
and burial."
Homer Jcnks, managing edi
tor of the Boston Traveler in
President Kennedy's home town,
said that when the assassina
tion flash came, two editions al
ready were on the street. At
2:23 p.m. the presses started
with the assassination story and
ran continuously until 5:45 p.m.
except for stops to insert fresh
material. More than 100.000 ex
tra copies were sold, and on
one downtown street . corner
alone, 7,000 copies were sold.
Jcnks said that" on the day of
the funeral, the Traveler threw
out its women's and feature
pages to make room for com
plete coverage.
Thomas Winship, managing
editor of the Boston Globe, said, ies of its Nov. 23-25 cdilions
"we heaved out the comics fori The Los Angeles Times printed
three days and got half a dozen half a million extra copies dur
complaints. We heaved out all ing the weekend and sold virt.
society news for two days." ually all of them
in uauas iiseit, tne Morning The San Diego (Calif.)
-'i mure lype in a snort
er period of time than ever be
fore in its history, but there
were few typographical errors.
For the first time the Morning
news used an eight-column pic
ture on its front page.
aii dui 70.000 copies of the
oune listed, sales of 17-1.103 for
Nov.22, nearly 57,000 above nor
mal and breaking the record
of 141.405 set Feb. 20 after John
Glenn's space flight. The news
paper published three extra edi
tions Nov. 22.
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jm.uuu press run at uie uuroen i an extra Nov. 22. "The first I
City, L. I., N. Y., Newsday had can remember since franklin D
been run off when the flash I Roosevelt's death," said Jame3
i Lauu uie news rooms, i ne uissiuy, world editor
staff immediately began work David Kimmel, night manag.
on an eight-page extra without ing editor of the Cleveland
mid i.auig, which was aciiverca vunioi l'lam Dealer, sa d
tree to all subscribers. . put out our first extra
Memorial Sections Pearl Harhnr"
The Milwaukee Journal and; The Fori Worth (Tex) Press
the Minneapolis Star and Tri-1 published its first Saturday edi
bune each began preparing ; tion in "many, many years"
special memorial sections on the and its first morning paper
martyred President which were ! ever. The Fort Worth Slar Tele.
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delivered durine . the weekend
The Houston Chronicle prepared
a special four page section on
President Johnson for distribu
tion Nov: 24. i
Managing editor Herb Kamm
said the New York World-Telegram
and Sun "had the longest
press run in our history on Fri
day (Nov. 22.) It began at the
lime of the shooting and pres
ses didn't slop until 6:30 p.m.
The New York Times, norm
ally a fat two pounds of read
ing matter, saw its Sunday news
section dwindle from 1H6 pages
10 uuc to advertising can
cellations, but it devoted 12 full
pages to the Kennedy story.
Many publishers limited Sun
day press runs to the number
of supplement copies which had
been printed, but in Chicago
extra copies were distributed
without color comics and color
rotograveue magazines to fill
the demand for news.
David Starr, managing editor
of the Long Island Press, said.
just checking the Sunday (Nov.
21, cciiuons was "a tremendous
operation because we eliminat
ed every bit of light, frothy
material, material in bad taste,
and unkind references to the
Kennedys in syndicated columns
and the like."
In their snare moments, em
ployes of the Beaumont (Tex.)
bnlerprisc Journal began mak
ing up packages containing con
ies of all editions from Nov. 22
through Nov. 25 for subscribers
wno wanted tnem as memen
toes.
Circulation Records Broken
gram ran one extra Nov. 22
and another Nov. 24., The San
Antonio (Tex.) Light ran seven
extra cdilions Nov. 22. The El
rasoucx..) Herald Post ran
two extras, one Nov. 22 and
the second Nov. 23.
Bureaus Bolstered
The Chicago Daily News bol
stered its Washington bureau
with a vacationing staffer and
another on leave of absence to
attend Columbia University.
Stan upotowsky, assistant
managing editor of the New
York Post, just happened to be
in Washington, at the time of
the shooting and took charge of
the newspaper's bureau opera
tions there.
Harvey Pallon of the Detroit
News said "no page was sac
red" when it came to making
room for the Kennedy story.
Al Friendly, managing editor
of the Washington Post, said,
that despite a drop of 28 pages
in the Nov. 24 edition due to
cancelled advertising, the news
paper carried about six moro
pages of news.
Greater News Content
aam uornstcin, managing edi
tor of the Boston Sunday ad
vertiser, said, "we opened the
paper up to almost double its
normal news content."
Charles Dnmeron, news editor
ot the Dallas Times Herald,
said, we threw out about
Circulation records
broken in many cities. Al San
Francisco, the News Call Bulle
tin sold 315,004 copies Nov, 22
127,744 above normal, and 56,000
moro (han the previous record of
may 2, 1960, when kidnap-rapist
Caryl Chessman was executed.
The Chicago Tribune sold
or 30 columns of live news about
the Kennedy visit to Texas by
the time we nit tne streets wnn
out last edition Friday (Nov,
22) afternoon."
The Washington Daily News
were had its presses rolling when ino
President was snot. wo
stopped the press when the
United Press International flash
camo through and junked about
7,000 from that run. Then we
rcplalcd six or seven times and
again stopped the press for the
dealh," Managing Editor Rich-
more than 650,000 additional cop-1 ard Hollander said.
Diseases of Body
Said Mistaken for
Disorders of Mind
o,if Effective December 12 Thru Sunday, December 15 Limit Rights
Stewart at King Open Until 9 P.M
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Bv DI'XOS SMITH
DPI Sclcnrc Editor
NEW YOHK (UPI) - To pre
vent their medical fingers from
ever pointing exclusively at ci
ther the mind or the body, all
physicisians "must continuous
ly remind themselves that they
arc Ircating persons." Persons
have both minds and bodies.
"Laboratory diseases" have nei
This was the response of an
official of the American Psy
chiatric Association to continu
ing protests that psychiatrists
have so sold their science to
other physicians. Diseases ot
the body are being mistaken
for disorders of the mind.
Dr. William F. Shcelcy admit
ted to this much: "Trying to
eliminate past neglect of the
psychic .(mind) aspects of ill
nesses, wc psychiatrists tempt
physicians including our
selves to neglect the somatic
(physical)."
The proper answer to tne pro
tests, he continued, is for psy
chiatrists to maintain and to
exoand their knowledge of the
organic that is physical
functions -of human beings, and
for all other physicians to main
tain and expand their knowl
edge of how the mind tics in.
There is loo mucn stubDorn-
ly held medical thinking based
on "cilher-cr" "a paticnl has
cither organic disease or psy
chic. The tact Is, ishecley said,
the two may exist at the same
time in the same person; in
deed, the presence of one in
creases the likelihood ot the
other being present, loo.
He cited a scientific com
parison between 471 psychiatric
patients ana 4su normal per
sons. There were significantly
more body Illnesses among the
former. Having found cither a
mental or a physical illness,
"the wise physician redoubles
his efforts to find the other."
Shcelcy was commenting spe
cifically on a recent study ot
US nersons whose Illnesses
were first diognosed as psychi
atric. Two days to 25 years utt-
r these original inclines, an
were demonstrated to have or-
oanir diseases,
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wnen treaica imuuy iui mc-ac
the 115 got well, 31.3 per cent
improved, 2.0 per cent showed
no change. Meanwhile, 27 per
cent had died.
Those figures, Shcelcy said,
"warn us once more of the dan
gers of mistaking organic ill
ness for psychiatric and there
by exposing our patient to need
less suffering if not premature
dealh."
The error of the psychiatrist
who fails to notice that the per
son ho is treating for anxiety
reaction is infested with lung
parasites is "no more tolerable'1
than the error of the surgeon
treating cancer "who fails tu
note his patient's depressive re
action until the patient takes
the short way from his seventh-
floor room lo the concrete yard
below."
Specialty training, Shcelcy ar
gued, ran cause some physi
ciuns "lo feel comfortable only
within (he sheltering walls nt
a narrow medical field." Ho
praised current official efforts
to increase the psychiatric,
knowledge' of physicians In gen
eral, adding: "As yet efforts to
expand the psychiatrist's gen
eral medical skills are not par
ticularly vigorous."
Old Timers Car
Club Sets Election
Election of officers for the Old
Timers Car Club will be held
Saturday, Dec. 14, at a meeting
of the group at the clubhouse in
Medford.
A potluck dinner will be held
at 6:30 p.m. followed by a short
business meeting at 7:30 p.m.
Those attending are to take a
hot dish, salad or cake as rolls
and coffee will be provided by
the club.
Cards and games will bo
played following the business
sessions. Wives and guests are
invited to the event.
IlltING A HOItSK
NEW YORK (UPI)-Gallop-in
movies are gaining in popularity
In the West. A new outdoor the
ater near Palm Springs, Calif.,
says it will provide hitching
posts and oats for the mounts
physical ails, 39.1 per cent of I of equcstrion pattons.