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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.
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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
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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. "
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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. . . "
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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.
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By MKKKIM.W SMITH
ITI While House Reporter
ARLINGTON X A T 1 0 X A I,
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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
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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
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Wednesday.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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