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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1964)
r tit irfl ma sua rarwyvx in rcwn 7" . . . I"' r -. ..,5"--Jt UK 1 I Jill m I Mill mini I.I.HHIIW.1II lIIIPm'"'Hl. .: i tme, ... A DAY OF TRAGEDY A heart-warming reception by cheering throngs as a presidential motorcade toured Dallas, Tex., turned into a horror scene as a sniper's bullets mortally wounded President Kennedy. Photo above shows Kennedy slumping into the arms of his wife, Jacqueline, the moment after the assassin's bullets found their mark. Arrested and accused as the President's assassin was Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, an avowed Castro Marx ist who lived for a time in Russia after dishonorable discharge from the U.S. Marines. While being moved from one Dallas jail to another, Oswald was slain by Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner. Oswald grimaces in pain, photo at, right, at the instant Ruby shoots. 7 V t 4 '!' t..j JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY is mourned by the nation he led as ils 35th and first Catholic president. A fnmily-loving man of intellect, wit, accomplishment: Valorous war service, author, archi tect of New Frontiers of freedom. At 46, a hero's grave in Arlington. l .tJf : ! . '. I i " ' : iMHHHMH j: :. . a I , I MMnigiiBHimHMunJ Dallai Times Herald and Photographer Bob Jackson A , ii&i(A'rlfAli;l .,. .... I B II Ml-JiSa rit i . , a " I ----'- .,.a!w...aJT.l1 r mn iBaiTinriiiii-H--,mi i vi i nl LYNDON RA1NKS JOHNSON took the oath of office as Die 36th U.S. president 98 minutes after President Kennedy died. Here, hand raised, the solemn-faced Johnson is sworn in. He is flanked by Ins wife, Lady Bird, left, and Mrs. Kennedy, right, numb with grief. 1 KVbV - "?J' "FREEDOM!" AND "NOAV!" rang the fervent pleas of 200.000 Negroes and whites who V(3f ! : invadca the nations capital lor a mammoth but orderly civil rights demonstration. The TP M yi' ii.'jBi massed throng made lis impressive appeal for equal rights and opportunities now before the Lincoln Memorial in the presence, symbolically, of the Great Lmancipator, umnmmui THOSE OF OTHER FAITHS joined with million Catholics in mourning their be loved Pupe John XXIII, dead of cancer at 81. Pope Paul VI, shown, is his successor. i 4 4"k. NEARLY SO.OOfl PKOPLE DIED in this year's natural calamities: Hurricane Flora; the collapse of an Italian dam (toll 3,000; an earthquake which razed Skopje, Yugoslavia (toll R nnni. Flora killpH 4 000 111 Haiti, nrslrnvpd ritips snrh as nirhirnH Polif Trnn Aa Minne Ls.' .a ' ,3j 1 l ' -t. t. , ;r moa was naru im oy inc Hurricanes iury, losing nail oi us rice, cotton and sugar crops. t y 1 fSr 4 V T1-r- -. .-in ii , E Sj , If uSw:LU'i. Mir."" -."1 W5i i T -JF'H. 3 11 I - 3 i HU : J M i v ;B , X ,J i 1 - '' ' ' f . 7 i j A4 1 r..,rrr-N . --fs' v Mk,bMi THIS tMDRAC'E ME-CO.MRADK atUtudo by the V. S. State Department s W. Averell Harriman and Soviet Premier Khrushchev typified the good will atmosphere in which the nuclear test ban treaty was negotiated. The pact, hailed as a great stride toward world peace, was ratified by the U. S. Senate. Most nations of the world signed it. 1 OFF MIDWAY, a cheer. Maj. U Gordon Cooper had just splashed into the Pacific after a 22 orbit space flight. Cooper made it by steering his erring capsule to a perfect landing by hand. PW by The Curlie l'ublishing Ccmpanr. lismbuletl by Newspaper tnterpnie Aajn. THE ODDS 54 million to I favored Andtew Fischer. S76-a-week shipping clerk, and his wife Mary Ann, 30. ot Aberdeen. S.D., and they became the parents of quintuplets. The five babes Mary Ann, Slary Magdalene. Mary Catherine. James Andrew and Mary Margaret born twp months psematurtl.v, brought to 10 the number of Fischer children. Eklfj i taiiTiiTiJift iSStJ ESI v.....U.,,gi;h:, 1.11..,;,.,;,,....., , ...