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CO'?, q)WIq) u u UU 'J. OF O'jr.MB.TAl? GSN, KE", MID UOCUSSKrS DIV. MIM OPE rim, B 0) fill I "V UVUAUU I d i It w'Kftt i PROCESSION BEGINS mains of the late President Capitol to begin procession WiaInr Klamatti Fills. Tulelakc and lahe vitw Fair tonight. Increasing cloudi ness Tuesday with a sliqhl chance for rain talt Tuesday. Lows tonight 21-11. Highs Tuesday as-SJ. High yesterday 41 Low this morning 1ft High year ago 4S Low year ago 39 Precip. past 24 hours trace Since Jan. 1 9.76 Same period last year IS. 3ft In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS As this is written. President John F. Kennedy, struck down by the bullet of an assassin, has just been laid to his final rest. Four times, in our relatively brief history as a nation, that has happened to us. In this tra gic record, there are some star tling similarities. There arc also seme startling contrasts. Let's take another look at the record. In the case of President Lin coln, there was a plot. A crazy plot, to be sure. But there was a plot. It appears to have been a plot to upset the government and bring about the separation of the North and the South. Simultaneously with the killing of President Lincoln, Secretary Seward was attacked and wounded at his home by Lewis Powell, a fellow conspirator with John Wifes Booth. The plot, of course, failed. But there clearly w as a plot an in sane plot, but still a plot. To that extent, the assassination of President Lincoln stands apart from the others. In two of these assassinations, the assassin died w ithin a mat ter of hours. John Wilkes Bocth was cor nered in a barn in Virginia. The barn was riddled w ith bullets by the pursuers of tlie assassin. It was then set fire to. Booth per ished. Again, in tlie ca.-e of President Kennedy, tlie assassin was killed shortly after tlie commission of his horrible deed. He was spec tacularly shot by another strange character for what reason may never be known. J It was different in the case of the assassination of President Garfield. The killing lock place in a railroad station in Washington. Tlie killer. Guiteau. was prompt ly taken into custody. After a long trial which lasted for sev eral months, he was convicted and hanged. His defense was in sanity, and it was pretty well estahlished that this was his real condition, but popular feeling was too strong lor the jury to disregard, and it brought in a verdict of guilty. President McKinlcy was shot on September 6, I'.KH. in Buflalo. by an anarchist named Czolgosz. who held a pistol in a bandaged hand and thu approached the President without beinj suspect ed. He was shot on September fi. and died eight das later His assassin was tried in Buffalo and convicted. On October ?J. he was hanaed. In both cases, the trials dragged the public j:a:n through ail the griefs and all (Continued en Page 4-A) The caisson bearing the re- Kennedy pulls away from the to St. Matthew's Cathedral I lralti anil Ifctas Price Ten Cents 20 Pages Top World Dignitaries Lead Funeral Procession WASHINGTON tUPIl - The body of slain President Ken nedy began its last journey through the capital at 10:48 a.m., EST. It was a sombre retracing of the roule Kennedy had followed in triumph after his inaugura tion 34 months ago. A crowd of 20,000 jammed the Capitol Plaza, bareheaded and silent, as the coffin of the 35th President of the United States was carried down the long Capitol steps by its uni formed bearers. Waiting at the bottom were Kennedy's widow, Jacqueline, her face hidden by a black veil, and his two brothers, Atty. Robert F. Kennedy and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. The band began to play, "Hail to the Chief." The young Chief. The dead Chief. The crowd stood silent in a hushed city. "Hail To Chief" Many of them had waited in line all night in hopes of pass ing through the Rotunda under Ihe Capitol dome where the President lay in state only to be turned away when time ran out. "Hail to the Chief" ended, and the band began a hymn "Oh God of Loveliness." The bearers carried the coffin down Funeral Rites Held For Slain Policeman DALLAS i UPI 'There is an other funeral, another grief stricken family. Mrs. J. D. Tip pitt shares w ith Jacqueline Ken nedy the sorrow of widowhood, for her husband was slain too. One man is charged with their deaths. But there all simi larity ends. President Kennedy was a man of history and wealth. J. I). Tippitt. 39. made $400 a month as a policeman to sup port his wife and three chil dren. He had no insurance. The city provides none. Tippitt was shot and killed on a Dallas street while pursuing President Kennedy's accused assassin. His careworn widow and their children. Allen. 14: Brenda Kay. 10, and Cuibss Glenn, 5. live in a neat suburban area of medium brick homes on (lie southern edge of Dallas. She is 3fi. "Daddy had just come home for lunch at 11:30 laem.i. He had a sandwich and some milk before he went back to duty." Mrs. Tippitt said. " V"H t a u Mil a-tar tf I s .i i? Pi where a funeral mass preceded burial in Arlington National Cemetery. UPI Telephoto KLAMATH FALLS, ORKGON. the stairway, flanked by a color guard. A lone sailor carrying the President's colors followed behind. The casket was placed atop its caisson, a piece of military equipment older than Kennedy was. It was the same caisson which carried the body of Franklin D. Roosevelt through the same saddened Washington streets 18 years before. At the foot of the, marble stairs, across from Kennedy's widow and brothers, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the com mandant of the Coast Guard stood at attention. Then, with muffled drums throbbing, John Fitzgerald Ken. nedy was borne on his last pro cession through the capital of the nation he had led. Behind the caisson, a walking soldier led the black, riderless horse with boots reversed in the stirrups which traditionally follows the body of a fallen leader. As it did Sunday, the black horse jerked its head against its bridle, and drummed its hooves on the pavement in nervous distress. The caisson left the Capitol grounds and, at 11:10 a.m., turned sharply onto Pennsyl vania Avenue. The crowds packed densely along the cortege route were "Then the next thing 1 heard was that he w as dead." Mrs. Tippitt said she "cer tainly knows" how Mrs. Ken nedy feels. She said the slain President's brother. Atty. Gen. Hnlicrt Kennedy, called her Fri day night. "He said lie was calling on Miali of Mrs. Kennedy." Mrs. Tippitt said. "He expressed t heir sympathy and sorrow over our loss. I told him to express my concern to Mrs. Kenneriv and tell her I ccrlainly know how she feels." Mrs. Tippitt said she was grateful for the Ihnughtfulness of the Kennedys in calling their concern Mrs. Tippitt's neat, three-bed-room biick home was filled with friends and relatives Food in abundance was sprrad oer tables and the kitchen sink. Her children, surrounded by friends, were eating lunch quietly. "I just don't know how we II get along without him." Mrs. Tippitt said of her slain hus band. ' He was such a good man he wa, so good to Hie i children. . . " O , ! y ; '. i MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25. ISM dressed warmly against the chill weather. Many had shiv ered through the night, waiting. Three clergymen marched slowly in front of the horse drawn caisson, leading it to ward the cathedral, where Rich ard Cardinal Cushing of Boston waited to perform the final fu neral rite. The great government build ings along Pennsylvania Avenue cast long shadows, so that the caisson passed from light to dark,""and then to light again, as it moved past the watchers. In the sunshine, the wooden spokes of the wheels glistened as if wet. As the procession moved In ward the White House, the great of Hie nation and the world already were assembling. Waiting at the White House were French President Charles tie Gaulle, Britain's (Prince Philip, and the other world leaders who would follow on fool as Mrs. Kennedy walked behind the coffin of her hus band from his home to the ca thedral. Others gathered at the ca thedral. Former President Harry S. Truman arrived at 11:30 a.m. His daughter Margaret had to help him up the steps. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roose velt who had succeeded to the presidency when William Me Kinley was assassinated in mil. entered the still incompleted cathedral, a 63-ycar-old church drab on the outside but a glit tering jewel within. New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and his wife were there just a few minutes be lore former Vice President and Mrs. Richard M. Nixon. An Arab diplomat arrived in flowing desert robes black and white, the colors of mourning. There was a delegation of House members, also Alabama Gov. George Wallace, his bitter disputes with Kennedy forgot ten. West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt. . AFL - Clo' President George Meany . . . astronaut John Glenn. . .the Rev. Billy Graham, world leaders and diplomats, filing two by two in to the church physical evi dence that a world mourned. Walking behind the caisson, to the sobbing skirl of Scottish bagpiK's. East and West, Com munist and hee, the representa tives of Hie world's nations were momentarily united. Tlie rew President, Lyndon B. Jolin-on, and his vife walked. Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas I Milioyan walked. West German Chancellor Iid wig Erhard walked. Canadian P(ime Minister LeCr B. Pear son walked. I V j mm President Laid By MKKKIM.W SMITH ITI While House Reporter ARLINGTON X A T 1 0 X A I, CKMETERY 'ITU - tndcr a bright and cloudless sky John Fitzgerald Kennedy worn to rest today on a grassy hillside in this cemetery reserved (or tlie nation's heroes. There was a twenty-one Run salute for tlie young leader who fell under an assassin's bullets Friday. Riflemen fired three vol leys. A bugler sounded Taps. Present in death on the near by slopes were thousands of oth er heroes who died in their country's wars. Present in life were his wid ow, stoical and brave, and his little children-Carolinc who will be fi Wednesday and John Jr., whose third birthday fell on tlie day of his father's funeral. Also present was the new President. Lyndon B. Johnson, and the kings and presidents and princes and ministers of most of the world's other na tions. Final Services Held A short time before, in Wash ington's old rose-red St. .Mat thews Cathedral, the martyred President's soul had been com mended to the care and mercy Telephone Til 4-8111 No. 711:17 "A ft - - - . Wf ft A FOLLOW CASKET Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, ac companied by Attorney General Robert Kennedy, left, and Sen. Edward Kennedy, leave the White House to walk behind the caisson of the late President from there to St. Matthew's Cathedral. UPI Telephoto Johnson Leads Tribute To The Late President WASHINGTON (UPD-Presi-dent Johnson led his fellow citi zens and (he mighty of the earth today in mourning a fall en comrade, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The new Chief Executive of the United States, ramrod straight, his face etched with sadness, joined with millions around the world in paying his last respects to the slain Presi dent. Rut within hours after I lie last, sad riles for his burner chief. Johnson must lake up anew ttie great burdens ol Ihe oflice so suddenly thrust uon him He planned a reception lor Ihe many foreign heads of slate attending the funeral, the great est number ever to gather in the I nited Slates for any rea son. It was expected that some of the pressing international problems facing the new admin istration would be touched upon, if only briefly. Johnson, working at a breath taking pace since his elevation to the presidency in Dallas Fridav, also was expected to confer with aides and hi:'h of ficials (hrouidiiKjl the d,i. He goes before a Joint ses sion of Congress Wednesday at 12 30 pm. F.ST to outlin his concept of the piesidcmy and to plead once again for nation al unity. Congressional leaders of God. There his widow and children and his mother and all the others had heard this boon asked of God: "May tlie angels take him in to paradise." There, with his flag-draped casket lying before the altar under the 200-foot dome of the S5-year-o!d cathedral, an old friend had uttered tliese worlds of comfort, faith, and promise: "Life is not taken away. . .life is but changed." There Richard Cardinal dish ing of Boston, w ho had married John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier in 1953 and baptized Caroline and John Jr., had ut tered the great words. "Domi nus Vobiscum," "The Lord be with you." And tJte audience had replied, "Requiescat in Pace ""rest in peace." The pontifical Requiem Mass, a simple and moving service of the Roman Catholic Church for the dead, lasted more than an hour. At its climax, the cardinal ex tended the invitation to com munion. Jacqueline Kennedy, her brother-in-law, Atty. Gen. Roliert F. Kennedy, and more than a dozen other members of Won (ho LONO RANGE OUTLOOK Above normal temperatures this wek wllh hiqhs 40-SS and lows 20-35. showers possible lale Tuesday or on Wednesday. : fSr pledged him bipartisan coopera tion Friday night. Johnson already was receiv ing suggestions as to his con duct of foreign policy. Chair man J. William Fulbright, ID Ark., of the Senate Foreign Re lations Committee, and Sen. Rourke B. llickenlooper, It Iowa, ranking Republican mem. her, joined Sunday in urging him to arrange an informal "exploratory" meeting with So viet Premier Nikita S. Khrush chev. The President's third dav in office began at 10 a m. Sunday at his home in the Spring Val ley section of Washington. He received a briefing from Direc tor John A. McC'one of the Cen tral Intelligence Agency and McGeorge Bundy, President Kennedy's special assistant for national security. An hour later he a! tended services at St. Mark's Kpisco pal Church, joining members of the congregation for coffee af terward. Then at 12 40 p.m. he went to the White llou-e to join the cortege escorting President Kennedy's body lo the Capitol. Back at his makeshift execu tive oftices in the old State De partment build. ng near the White House, he conferred with Ambassador Henry Cabot Ixxige and received a firsthand report on the situation in South Viet Nam. it-..' J To Rest In Arlington their families knelt at the com munion rail. Others, about 200 in all. fol lowed. Tlie .Most Rev. Philip Hannan, auxiliary bishop of Washington, made the rites the occasion for reading excerpts from some of tltc most moving of the dead man's utterances. Hannan read Kennedy's I1 inaugural address in full. Then lie read one of the slain Presi dent's favorite Biblical pas sages, from the third chapter of Et'elesiastcs: "There is an appointed time ARLINGTON, Va. (ITU The final rcsUng place of ihe nation's 35th President lies on a grassy slnie not f a r from the fallen heroes of oth er years and other wars. There is no other grave In the immediate area chosen for John F. Kennedy at Ar lington National Cemetery, but up (he hillside to i h e south and east and w e s ( range row UHin row of sim ple while slimes. Beneath these stones rest men who fell at Anlletiitn, at Santiago, nt Chateau Thi erry, at lwo Jima, at Heart break Ridge tlie names and places read like a tragic lit any frf America's wars. President Kennedy's grave lies in an oien, sloping pint with just three wind bent dogwood (rers standing sen tinel. They are white when in bloom but they arc barren now, Mrs. Kennedy Follows Casket To Cathedral WASHINGTON l UPI Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, composed and head high in the grip of grief, today walked six. long blocks behind her husband's horse-drawn coffin to his fu neral. It was the way she wanted 11. The 34-year-old former First Lady made (he decision herself lo lead a procession of leaders of the nation and tlie world in (lie solemn journey from Ihe White House (o St. Matthews Cathedral. The children of the dead Pres ident John F. Kennedy were taken lo the cathedral by car. They had waited at the While House while their mother rode on her third trip in 20 hours to tilie side of their father's casket at Ihe Capitol Itotunda. Mrs. Kennedy also rode from (he Capilol with the body. Then, at Uie While House, the adult mourners left their limousines lo follow her and her brothers-in-law on foot up 17th St. and Connecticut Ave. to Ihe church. Flanked by the late Presi dent's brothers, Ally. Gen. Rob ert F. Kennedy and Sen. Ed ward M. Kennedy, she walked erectly and unswervingly as thousands of public onlookers watched in silent sympaUiy. Her w idow's veil blow against her face as soven-milc-an-hour' gusts of wind blew against tier slender sorrowing form. Once, during her tragic march, she spoke briefly lo the attorney general. Mrs. Kennedy never wavered in leading (he march. As (he unprecedented walk began, Robert Kennedy took Mrs. Ken nedy's hand and held il for a few minutes. But perhaps to t 'm : my H'-v VISIT ROTUNDA Mrs. Jacqutfline KfSirftafk asd hef sbtether-in-law, Attorney Gen ral Robert F. Kennedy, approach the cirjlQst of the rQartyjecrir.ttiident in h rotunda of the Capitol prior to the procession to he church. u UPI' Telephoto for everything under heaven. . . A time to be born and a time to die. . .A lime to plant and a time (o root up . . . A time lo weep and a lime (o laugh. . ." And there had been the words of Christ, recorded by St. John: "I am the resurrection and tlie life; he who believes in me, even if he die. shall live." The President's little boy. his beloved "John-John," cried as he entered the church with his mot Iter and sister. A few words from Mrs. Kennedy soothed him to silence. Caroline Sheds Tears At tlie end of Ihe mass, as slie followed her father's casket out of the church, Caroline cried as though she could never stop. The President's casket was carried (o Arlington on a cais son drawn by the same team of seven magnificent gray horses which had pulled il from the White House lo the Capitol and from the Capilol back lo tlie While House and to the cathedral. Police Chief Robert V. Mur ray estimated that 800,000 spec tutors turned out on the city's streets lo view some portion of the public part of the proces sion. Tlie slain President's grave is on a slope facing tlie Lincoln Memorial across the Potomac and Ihe White House. It is 200 feet down a sleep lawn from the flagpole of the Arlington Museum where Confederate Gen. Robert E. Ise once lived. demonstrate her resoluteness, slie pulled her hand gently away and chose to walk unas sisted Uie rest of the way. President Johnson followed immediately behind, joined by other top American officials. At (he cathedral, the caisson drew (o a gentle hall. There. Caroline and Jolin were brouglit to their motlier. Reassuringly, she took the chil dren by the hand and gravely led them up Uie steps where Richard Cardinal Cushing wait ed to greet them at Use entry. The three walked slowly down the aisle to their seats. Mrs. Kennedy's last duty as a public figure was to be at an afternoon reception at the Whito House for Uie foreign dignitaries who came from every corner of the world to pay tribute to John F. Ken nedy. From tlie moment Use Presi dent fell in her arms Friday, shot by an assassin, she has held back tlie sobs, much the way the fallen Chief did when he had lo bear in public the lieavy grief of the loss of their Infant 6on last August. After today's riles ihe is ex pected to go into seclusion where she can mourn alone and unobserved. Cherishing history and know ing their place in it, iVlra. Ken nedy louk her ehildren, John Jr. and Caroline, to the Capitol Sun day to fix in their memories the national homage paid to Uieir father. Tliey nxlc behind the horse drawn caisson and Uie riderless black horse lo live sound of muf fled drums. They saw Ihe crowds, tlie uniforms, the flags and tlie sorrow. l iawWV4it if is vv-v 8 4 i" i .! No oilier graves are in tire immediate vicinity. Only one other president, William How ard Taft, lies in Arlington. The cortege from (lie cathe dral to the cemetery stopped about 100 yards from the grave. As Mrs. Kennedy stepped from her limousine, there was a sound of "Ruffles and Flourish es" followed by the National Anthem. The casket was borne to Uie grave to the music of an Air Force bagpipe band. President Johnson and other mourners grouped themselves around tiio bier. Planes Fly Overhead Fifty jet fighter planes, 50 for tlie 50 slates, swooped over in a salute to tlie departed commander-in-chief. They wre followed by Air Force On , the four-jet trans port whic'i carried Kennedy to his fate ii Dallas and brought his body back to the capital. Then followed a silent cere monial performed by a special detachment of Irish Guards flown here from Ireland Sunday night. It was understood tlie guards came here at tlie Ken nedy family's request. The final religious ceremonies came next blessing of Uie grave and prayers at Uie grave side. On a bill behind tlie grave, cannon fired the 21-gun salute. The riflemen fired their volleys. An Army bugler, Sgt. Keith Clark, Grand Rapids, Mich., blew taps. Tlie 34-year-old widow most have remembered the previous joyous trip to (he Capitol in the Inaugural parade not quite three years ago. . Today is John-Jolin's third birthday. Instead of a celebra tion for the little boy, ft will be a national day of mourning or his faUier. Mrs. Kennedy walked be hind Uie casket of her slain hus band in a funeral procession from the White House to St. Matthews' Cathedral, six blocks away. For a widowed First Lady (o walk behind (he caisson in a . final tribute to her husband is I unprecedented. ' From the church she went; lo Arlington National Ceme-. lery for tlie burial of the man she married 10 years ago. This afternoon at Uie White House she planned to meet the heads of state and potentates. the greatest array of dignitaries ever to pay solemn homage to a dead American president. Among them will be President Charles de Gaulle of France, who once said "the only thing he wanted to take back from America was Jacqueline Kenne dy." To Uie admiration of millions, she has shown strength and de-: termination. She has remem bered others in her (sorrow. She has been doing what must be done packing up to Ietve the White House. She has considerately offered her help to her successor, Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, in the job which won her personal acclaim. On Jan. 23, 1061, inauguration day, (lie world rejoiced with her.. Tixlay tlie world weeps with her. M l