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REST IN PEACE The casket holding the body of late
a catafalque in the center of the East Room of the White
In The-
Day's lews
By FRANK JENKINS
Shocking fact:
In our relatively brief career
as a nation. FOUR of our Presi
dents have been assassinated.
In the centuries-long career of
the Roman Empire, there were
only two assassinations:
Julius Caesar by Brutus.
Mad Caligula by the olficers
of his own guard.
Brutus allowed himself to be
drawn into the plot to murder
Caesar who, he thought, was
reaching for supreme power. He
hoped by killing Caesar to save
republican government in
Rome. He was a hero to many
Romans who believed, as did
Brutus, that republican govern
ment was in danger.
Caligula, in the first eight
montlts of his reign, made him
self popular by his mildness and
acts of justice. Then, when he
had a firm hold on the republic,
tie iost his mental balance. He
became cruel and vindictive,
killing and torturing many per
sons. He considered himself a
god, and had a temple built in
his own honor. He declared his
horse Incitatus to be consul.
He was murdered by the of
ficers of his own guard, who
regarded his slaying as an act
of patriotism.
Our record is different.
Our four martyred Presidents
have been murdered by CRACK
POTS. On April 14, 1865. after a long
cabinet meeting at which he
had urged conciliation of the de
feated Confederacy, Lincoln
went to Ford's Theater to seek
relaxation. John Wilkes Booth,
an actor and a fanatic, stole
into the box behind the Presi
dent and shot him in the head.
He then leaped down to the
stage, waving a dagger and
shouting "Sic semper tyrannis"
i So be it to tyrants, i In spring
in; from the box to the stage,
his foot was caught in an Amer
ican flag and his leg was brok
en. He escaped by the rear of the
theater, reached a horse that
was saddled and waiting for
him and fled into Virginia,
where he was caught in a barn
near Bowling Green. On his re
fusal to surrender, the barn was
set fire to and it is believed he
shot himself.
Our next martyr was Presi
dent Garlield. While waiting for
a train in Washington to take
him to Williams Coiiece. he was
shot by C. J. Guilcau. a disap
pointed office seeker. He was
shot on July 2. The shot wa
not immediately fatal. Garfield
lingered on until September 19.
when lie died.
On September fi. hl, while
holding a public reception in the
Temple of Music at the Pan
American Exposition hi Buffalo,
President McKinley was shot by
an anarchist named Cio'2oz
b approached the unsuspect
ing President with a pistol con
cealed under handkerchief
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New Chief Executive
Huddles With Advisers
WASHINGTON (I I'D Pres
ident Johnson, briskly taking
command in a hectic day of
crisis, Saturday scheduled a
major policy speech before a
joint session of Congress on
Wednesday. The White House
announced this alter the new
Chief Executive won pledges
of unity and support from the
nation's top government, busi
ness and labor leaders during
the troubled weeks ahead.
By MERRIMAN SMITH
I PI While House Reporter
WASHINGTON ( UPI ) Presi
dent Johnson swiftly and firm
ly took tlie helm of state Sat
urday, pausing briefly in the
gloom of a nation's grief to
honor the memory of "a great
and good man." John F. Ken
nedy, his slain predecessor.
The new Chief Executive con
ferred day-long wilh his intel
ligence advisers and met for
the first time with his cabinet.
He attended a special prayer
service near the White House,
and greeted Dwight D. Eisen
hower, a sorrowing man who
once bore the same enormous
burden of the presidency.
Johnson proclaimed Monday
as a national day of mourning
for the martyred Kennedy,
felled by an assassin's bullet in
Dallas, Tex., on Fiiday. Fed
eral offices across the land will
lie closed that day, the day of
Kennedy's funeral.
The day, the most momentous
in Johnson's 55 years, began at
daybreak in his elegant spring
valley home in northwest Wash
ington. Johnson apparently rose
Entire World Shocked, Sorrowed
By I'nited Press International
President Kennedy was
mourned around Ihe world on
both sides of the Iron Curtain.
Heads of state acclaimed him.
Persons on the streets of Lon
don. Tokyo, Paris, and Berlin
grieved, as did many in Com
munist capitals.
Newspapers eulogized him.
and some compared his death
with that of Abraham Lincoln.
In Berlin 80.000 persons,
many of them weeping,
marched in a torchlight parade
after midnight in demonstration
of their mourning for the man
wlio only five months auo saw
the Communist wall and said:
"Ich bin ein Berliner." '! am a
Berliner'.
The first reaction was unbe
lieving shock. A London wom
an, hearing the news, cried out:
who said that? I'll kill him!"
Tnen came sorrow.
"Full of Life"
"He was so young." sobbed
Mary Ryan, an Irish third rou
sin of the President, "so lull of
life, so nice "
Sorrow gave way to an;er.
"A madman did this!"
President Kennedy rests on
House under military guard.
UPI Telephoto
early, probably after very little
sleep, for the house lights were
on when dawn broke.
Wearing a black suit and
black, yellow - striped tie, the
President left home at 8:45 a.m.
in a black limousine accompa
nied by five unidcnlilied men.
The car w as preceded and fol
lowed by five motorcycle police
men and two Secret Service
cars during the five mile drive
to the White House.
Arriving there shortly after 9
a.m., Johnson immediately went
to President Kennedy's office to
confer briefly with Atty. Gen.
Robert F. Kennedy.
Then, accompanied by Mc
George Bundy, presidential ad
viser on national security af
fairs. Johnson went to the base
ment "Situation Room" for a
briefing by John A. McCone, di
rector of the Central Intel
ligence Agency (CIA. The Situ
ation Room is the White House
communications center where
reports of worldwide events and
crises are received.
Johnson left at 9:28 a.m. and
walked briskly across West Ex
ecutive Avenue, adjacent to the
White House, to the old Execu
tive Office Building, where he
began a half-hour talk wilh Sec
retary of State Dean Rusk. De
fense Secretary Robert S. Mc
Numara entered at 10:10 a.m.,
and Rusk left three minutes la
ter. Johnson's wife. Lady Bird,
joined congressional leaders
outside the former vice presi
dent's office during McNa
mara's 45-minute meeting with
her husband.
snapped Swedish calxlriver j
Joern Nolerud.
Finally came the tributes.
"Kennedy was another Lin
coln," a Russian student said
softly as he stood outside the
U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
"Rest in peace. John Ken
nedy." said the London Daily
Herald. "You helped us much."
Behind it all day a sense of
kiss and the fear of an unknown
future.
"You mean Kennedy is dead?
President Kennedy?" asked An
ni Krauth. a German woman.
"I'm scared!"
Weep at Nrnfl
Europeans, including such no
tables as British Science Min
uter Quintin Hogg 1 formerly
lrd Hailshami and leftwing
Italian Socialist leader Pietro
Nenni, wept at the news.
In the Vatican, Bishop Her
man Westermann of Samhal
pur, India, compared Kennedy's
death to the "kiss of (Mohan
das i Gandhi," Hindu leader as
sassinated by a fanatic in 1948.
Bishop Josgnh Bowers of
Ghana feared the assassination
"will arouse again the uncer
Hero's Burial Planned
In Arlington Cemetery
WASHINGTON il'PD - John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, mourned
by high and low alike, will be
given a hero's burial Monday
in Arlington National Cemetery
following a Pontifical Requiem
Mass at noon.
In an official proclamation,
one of his first acts as Presi
dent, Lyndon B. Johnson de
clared Monday a day of nation
al mourning for ls predeces
sor, felled by a sniper's bullets
in an act that "outrages decent
men."
The new President also ap
pealed to the American people
to assemble in their churches
Monday for prayer, and invited
all people anywhere who share
this nation's grief to join in the
day of mourning.
A little later the White House
announced that the family of
the slain President had decided
on interment in the military
cemetery in Virginia just across
the Potomac River from the
nation's capital.
Only one other President, Wil
liam Howard Tafl. is buried in
Arlington, shrine of the nation's
heroes.
As commander-in-chief of the
nation's armed forces, John F.
Kennedy held abundant right to
a grave in the honored mili
tary cemetery.
But he was a war hero as
well, having recovered from a
serious wound as a Navy lieu
tenant in World War H only to
be struck down on a Dallas,
Tex., street by a sniper's bul
lets. As leaders of the world con
verged on the capital to ,nay
homage, hundreds of people
ranging from the family to the
lale President's most bitter po
litical foes filed slowly past his
bier in the black draped East
Room of the White House.
First came Mrs. Jacqueline
Kennedy, widowed by a sniper's
bullet at 34. and members of
the immediate family. Then
President Johnson and his wife,
accompanied by former Presi
dent Dwight D. Eisenhower and
afterwards high officials.
Wallace, Barnett Present
Among them were two of the
late President's most intense
civil rights opponents. Govs.
Ross Barnett of Mississippi and
George C. Wallace of Alabama.
Wallace said the death of Ihe
man whose policies he de
nounced "transcends all poli
tics." Limousine after limousine
moved slowly up the While
House driveway bringing such
other dignitaries as Gov. and
Mrs. Nelson A. Rockefeller of
New York, Gov. Edmund G.
Brown of California and for
mer President Harry Truman.
The ex-President, who upon
his arrival in the capital de
nounced the "good for nothing"
Kennedy assassin, talked with
Mrs. Kennedy for 15 minutes
tainty and fears of the devel
oping nations in Africa."
Queen Elizabeth II said she
was "shocked and horrified,"
and ordered her court to go into
mourning for a week.
Pope Paul VI, who met Ken
nedy twice, was offering a spe
cial Mass for the slain Presi
dent's soul. He called the as
sassination a "wicked crime"
and prayed that tlie "sacrifice"
might help the cause of peace
and freedom.
Britain: Tlie lenor bell of
Westminster Abbey rang nut a
requiem usually reserved lor
royalty.
Russia: Premier Nikita Khru
shchev cabled President John
son that the assassination is
"a heavy blow to all people
who hold dear Ihe cause of
peace and Soviet-American co
operation." Algeria:. Presklent Ahmed
Ben Bella said "this has moved
us profoundly."
Germany: Chancellor Ludwig
Erhard said Kennedy "embod
ied tlie Western ideals of free
dom and the dignity of man,"
in the White House living quar
ters. Despite a White House re
quest that Americans express
their condolences with gills to
charity, baskets of flowers kept
arriving at the Executive Man
sion until a spare room had to
be set aside for them.
I'rges Church Worship
In issuing his proclamation
of mourning. President Johnson
invited "the people of Ihe world
who share our grief to join us
in this day of mourning and
reded ication."
He earnestly urged the Amer
ican people to assemble in the
nation's churches, "there to
how down in submission to the
will of Almighty God. and to
pay their homage of love and
reverence to the memory, of a
great and good man."
At 1 p.m., EST, Sunday, to
the muffled cadence of a coros
of drummers, the body in its
heavy mahogany casket will be
borne from the White House to
Ihe Capitol on a caisson drawn
by seven horses.
There it will lie in stale In
the Capitol rotunda mil tl 11
a.m., EST, Monday. II will then
be moved to St. Matthew's Ca
thedral several miles away for
the Pontifical Requiem Mass
that will be celebrated by Rich
ard Cardinal Cusliing, archbish
op of Boston.
Services
Scheduled
Many Klamath Falls churches
are planning special services
Monday for the late President
John F. Kennedy.
Solemn Requiem Mass for the
repose of the soul of President
Kennedy will be offered in the
Sacred Heart Church Monday
at 9 a.m. The mass will begin
at the same time, considering
the time differential, as Ihe fu
neral mass being offered by
Richard Cardinal Cushing in St.
Matthew's Cathedral in Wash
ington. DC.
The First Presbyterian Church
and the Peace Memorial Pres
byterian Church each will hold
memorial services Monday at
11 a.m. The services will be
open to Die public. The Peace
Memorial Church will ring its
church bells Monday morning.
The Calvary Baptist Church
and the First Baptist Church
both have scheduled memorial
services of prayer and mourn
ing Monday at II a.m. at the
First Baptist Church.
Zion Lutheran Church will
have a service Monday at 10
am.
Many other churches also are
expected to schedule services.
More information can be ob
tained by telephoning church of
fices. and ex-Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer called him a "martyr of
freedom and peace."
Yugoslavia: President Tito or
dered the cancellation of all
plays, movies and sports events
for a day of national mourning.
In a message to President John
son, Tito said Krnnedy's "trag
ic death has deeply moved and
embittered us "
Ireland: The land of Ken
nedy's ancestors was stunned.
Irishmen knelt on the sidewalks
and wept when liiey heard tlie
news.
Egypt: President Gama Nas
ser cabled Mrs. Kennedy that
he was "shocked by this horri
ble crime which took the life of
your late husband in tlie prune
of his youth."
Franre: President Charles de
Gaulle, who olten differed with
Kennedy during his hie. said he
"died as a soldier under (ire.
for his duly and In tlie service
of his country."
Italy: Flags flew at haif
slafl. President Antonio Segni
called the assassination "a
grave loss for all humanity."
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Stores, Offices, Schools
Plan To Close On Monday
Many stores, offices and pub
lic buildings will be closed
Monday in observance of proc
lamations by President Johnson
and Governor Hatfield declar
ing it as a day of mourning
for the late President John F.
Kennedy.
All federal buildings, t h e
Klamath County Courthouse and
most other public offices will
be closed. All schools in Klam
ath County will be closed, Su
perintendent Clifford Robinson
said. Parochial schools at both
St. Pius X and Sacred Heart
also will be closed Monday.
All institutions of higher edu
cation in the stifle will be
closed, including OTI in Klam
ath Falls. The post of lice will
lie closed and there will be no
deliveries. No business will lie
transacted by banks.
Members of the Klamath
Merchants Association met Sat
urday afternoon and announced
that downtown stores would be
closed all day Monday. Most
food stores have indicated that
they will close Monday morn
ing, but will reopen at noon to
serve the public.
Bob Gion, president of the
Klamath County Druggist Asso
ciation, said all drug stores in
the city of Klamath Falls will
be closed. Cal Peyton, president
of the Board of Realtors, said
local real estate olfices will be
closed all day. The regular
meeting of the realtors Wednes
day noon also has been c a n
ceiled. ,
David Carr, president of the
Bar Association, said law of
lices will close Monday. It was
understood that some physicians
were planning to close their of
fices during (lie hours of the
funeral in Washington, D.C.
Bruce Galloway, program sec
retary for the YMCA, said all
events at the "Y" Monday have
been cancelled. The Oregon
JOHNSON
Education Association has re
scheduled its meeting lo Tues
day at 6 p.m. at the KU cafe
teria. Herald and News Publisher
Joe Caraher said the business
and advertising departments of
the newspaper will be closed,
but the editorial, composing and
press rooms will he in opera
tion lo produce a Monday edi
tion. In California Ernest Short, su
perintendent of the Tulelakc
High School District, announced
the school will be closed. Butle
Valley High School. Dorris Ele
mentary School and M.udoel El
ementary School also announced
plans to close.
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OATH OF OFFICE Lyndon B. Johnion, flanked by hit wife (left) and the widow
of atiatsineted Preiident John F. Kennedy, ii sworn in as Preiident of the Unifea
Statei by Federal District Judge Sarah T. Hughej aboard tha prttidential plana Fri.
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Grief, Outrage
Sweep America
United Press International
Grief rolled across the nation
like a gigantic shock wave.
First there was tlie stunned
disbelief, then hatred and anger
at tlie sniper who shot and
killed President Kennedy. And
then anguish and tears and
prayer.
Not since Ihe assassination of
Abraham Lincoln has such
spontaneous grief and outrage
gripped a nation. Women wept
in the streets and men cursed
in helpless anger.
Business came to a standstill
as people clustered around ra
dio sets to hear again and again
what they could not believe at
first. Still tlicy asked, "Is it
true? Is it true?"
The tolling of church bells
confirmed their fears.
It was the lunch hour in most
of Ihe nation and diners too
shattered to eat left their half
finished meals. Shoppers in de
partment stores wandered about
misty-eyed and many stores
closed.
In New York Mi s. Mary Mc
Grath, an elderly cleaning
woman, stopped passcrsby out
side St. Agnes Church and told
them, "Jesus, Mary, Mother of
God, President Kennedy was
shot." When informed he was
dead she fell to her knees and
wept.
Crowd Cathedral
It was a grief stricken city
and thousands flocked to St
Patrick's Cathedral as its bells
tolled for the president.
It was tlie same throughout'
Ihe nation. Tears, shock, disbe
lief.
In Santa Fc, N.M., wnrkmen
making repairs in St. Francis
Cathedral left their scaffold and
knelt before the altar to pray
when they heard the news.
Theaters, movie houses,
schools, business houses closed
in almost every city. The Met
ropolitan opera cancelled a per
formance of Gottcrdammening,
the twilight of the gods.
Cars stopped on highways be
cause people could not listen to
the news and drive at the same
time.
Most stale governors ordered
a 30-day period of mourning
and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of
New York ordered a 17-gun sal
ute fired in Albany from 8 a.m.
until sundown, a shot every half
hour.
More than half of the nation's
college foolball games and the
entire weekend slate of Ihe
American Football League were
cancelled.
Demand Cancellation
In Charlotte, S.C., a local ra
dio station was flooded with
calls demanding cancellation of
the Alst annual Clemson - South
Carolina game. "What have we
to cheer about?" a Soulh Caro
lina cheer leader said.
In Pliladelphia an audience
of 2,000 was listening to the
Philadelphia Orchestra in tlie
Academy of Music when some
one offstage beckoned to con
ductor Eugene Ormandy.
The maestro left and Henry
1 .elf; .
Peltier, tfle orcliestra manager,
came on stage to announce that
Kennedy had been assassinated.
Cries of anguish rose from the
audience and it filed silently
out.
It was raining in Nashville,
Tenn., where crowds huddled
near radio and television sets
for the latest word. The corri
dors of tlie state Capitol were
abandoned. Outside of the steps
200 Negroes stood silently for
minute of silent prayer and
sang the national anthem in the
rain.
In California, in Ohio, in
Maine, there were cries of "oh,
my god, is he dead? Is he
dead?" and angry comments by
one man who said, "You don't
want to hear what I have to
say I'd like to run wild down
there tTexas) with a gun. All
they've done is to make him
another Lincoln."
In Philadelphia Mayor James
H. J. Tate recalled Kennedy's
visit tliree weeks ago said "he
talked of looking forward to
coming here for the Army-Navy
game" Nov. 30.
Rest Home
Fire Kills
63 In Ohio
NORWALK, OIlio (UPI) - A
wind-driven fire roared through
a rural rest home for elderly
persons earl Saturday, kill
ing 63 men and women in the
country's worst fire since 95
died in a Chicago school trage
dy almost five years ago.
Slate Fire Marshal Fred Rice
said 63 persons, some of them
invalids and some 100 years
old, perished. It was first be
lieved that 65 had died but fur
ther checking showed the rest
homo had 85 patients Friday.
One person died of natural
causes, leaving 84 patients in
tlie building when the fire
broke out.
Three employes and 21 resi
dents at the Golden Age Nursing
home were rescued in the pre
dawn fire and taken to tlie
Fisher-Titus Hospital in Nor
walk. About two-thirds of them
were invalids and some suf
fered burns and from the chill
night air, but their condition
generally was described as
good.
There was no Immediate ex
planation of the disaster on a
pine-tree covered lawn in Fitch
ville, halfway between Cleve
land and Toledo, but slate ar
son investigators promptly join
ed local officials in hunting for
clues in the charred ruins.
Gov. James A. Rhodes, stun
ned as he looked at the charred
bodies in the smouldering,
twisted ruins, ordered a fire
marshal and the highway patrol
to make a complete and thor
ough investigation.
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