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203 Saturday, November 23, 1963 On Guard for 132 Years IPir (Taisiti'dDfltte (CDnairgedl inn Sllayiimg V7 ED EE 8 I VI Sniper Shoots JFK, Wounds Texas Gov. 1 i 7 3 1 AP Photo IT WAS a solemn and grief-stricken moment as was administered by Judge Sarah T. Hughes, a Ken-Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as nedy appointee to the Federal Court. This photo was President of the United States in the cabin of the made by Capt.

Cecil Stoughton, official White House Presidential plane Friday, with widowed Jacqueline photographer, the only one permitted to photograph Kennedy standing, tear-stained, at his side. The oath the event. President John F. Kennedy Body Returned To Capital in Drama of Grief A Lonely Johnson Enters His White House Office From AP, New York Times and UPI DALLAS President Kennedy was assassinated Friday. Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, a pro-Castro 3Iarxist, was charged with his murder.

Texas Gov. John Connally also was wounded as he and President Kennedy rode in a motorcade through Dallas. Officers said Oswald was the man who hid on the fifth floor of a taxtbook warehouse and snapped off three quick shots that killed the President and wounded Connally. Police earlier had arrested Oswald for the slaying of a Dallas policeman who was shot down on the street shortly after the President's assassination. Oswald was arraigned shortly before midnight (1 a.m.

Detroit time) before Justice of-the Peace David B. Johnson. POLICE SAID Oswald, battered and sullen, denied having anything to do with the assassination, but admitted he worked in the building from which the fatal shots were fired. He would not account for his whereabouts at the time of the assassination, police said. Oswald was arrested at a theater some four miles from the place where President Kennedy was shot.

Police Capt. Will Fritz said it had been established that Oswald had been in the building from which the fatal shots came atl the time they were fired. The President suffered a massive gunshot wound in the brain and was pronounced dead at 2 p.m. (Detroit time). At the hospital where the President was taken, Rep.

Henry B. Gonzalez, of San Antonio, said he watched the nation's First Lady, spattered with blood, kiss the lifeless body of her husband on the lips in a last goodbye and take the ring off her finger and place it on his. "I couldn't take it," Gonzalez told the San, Antonio Express in a telephone call from Washington. "I walked away." Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was riding in the third can behind the President in a motorcade when the shooting took place, was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States Friday afternoon.

Air. Kennedy, 46, was the nation's youngest elected President. The killer fired at the President's car from" a building just off the motorcade route through Dallas. The President, Connally and Johnson had just received an enthusiastic welcome from a huge crowd in downtown Dallas. Mr.

Kennedy, who apparently was hit by the first of what witnesses thought were three shots, was driven at high speed to Parkland Hospital. There, in an emergency operating room, with no one attending him but physicians and nurses, he died without regaining concious-ness or uttering a word. From AP, New York Times and UPI WASHINGTON President Lyndon Baines Johnson Friday night walked, haggard and alone, into the presidential office that now is his. Mr. Johnson's sad journey from Dallas, where President Kennedy was slain by a sniper, ended when his helicopter landed on the White House lawn.

It had brought him from Andrews Air Force Base, Md. The new President held his wife's arm as they walked down the ramp to (he lawn. Mr. Johnson, 55, spoke with Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and Mc-George Bundy, special assistant to the President for national security affairs, who flew in with htm.

Then the party walked through the Rose Garden to the executive offices. reins of government dropped by the lifeless hands of John P. Kennedy. "I will do my best," the new President said. "That is all -I tan do.

I ask for your help, and God's." Mr. Kennedy was cut down by an assassin in Dallas, Friday and died in a hospital about 30 minutes later. And suddenly, the full weight of the problems of a world in trouble descended on the man who was Mr. Kennedy's vice president. Mr.

Johnson immediately won a pledge of bipartisan co-operation from Congressional leaders. The new President held a mid-evening meeting with House and Senate leaders of both parties after conferring with several top Administration officials. HE HAD TAKEN the oath of office as 36th President of the United States at 2:30 p.m. (Detroit time) in the president's jet plane while it stood on the runway at Love Field outside Dallas. Turn to Page 2A, Column Lee H.

Oswald Suspect Once Lived In Russia From AP, New York Times and UPI WASHINGTON A dead President returned Friday night to a stunned and saddened Capital. At 6:03 P.M. E.S.T. the big Air Force a jet plane of the group that had carried John F. Kennedy on so many triumphal trips, rolled to a stop at the Andrews Air Force Base 15 miles from the White House.

It was a sadly dramatic moment. Just before the plane came to a halt all the lights were turned out and the plane pulled forward in almost complete darkness. Only a quarter of a moon, almost obscured by clouds, shone down on the airport. Suddenly the flood lights went on again and a cargo lift was pushed up to the rear door. A group of pallbearers from all the armed services went aboard.

But the body of the President was carried by close friends who had helped him reach his high station Lawrence O'Brien, his legislative assistant on Capitol Hill; David Powers, his long-time personal helper, and Kenneth O'Donnell, who had played a prominent role in Mr. Kennedy's campaign for the Presidency and remained among his most trusted advisers to the end. Then came Sirs, Kennedy, who in August suffered the shock of losing an infant son, Patrick Bouvier. With her was the President's brother. Attorney General Robert F.

Kennedy, who had boarded immediately after it stopped. He grabbed her firmly by the hand. They rode down on the yellow cargo lift with the body in its bronze casket with a black top. Mrs. Kennedy seemed to stumble as she stepped off to the ground but quickly recovered and climbed unaided into the gray ambulance that took her husband's body to the Naval hospital in Bethesda.

4c A REINFORCED cordon of airmen, in dress uniform with rifles and bayonets, stood at attention. The normal Turn to Page 2 Column 3 WHILE OTHERS in the party stood beneath the portico outside, Mr. Johnson walked alone through the French doors and into the White House to pick up the From AP and UPI DALLAS Lee Harvey Oswald, charged with murder in the assissination of President Kennedy Friday, is a pro-Castro Marxist who once defected to Russia. The 24-year-old former U.S. Marine also was accused of fatally shooting a policeman who tried to grab him on a street just about the moment President Kennedy was dying WELDED BY COMMON GRIEF The Nation Comes to a Halt in Parkland Hospital.

Another officer subdues Oswald, who Kennedy and their two chil From AP and UPI The assassination of Kennedy Friday brought forth an outpouring of grief 1 lived in a Dallas rooming house with his Russian wife. Oswald, about 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing about 160 pounds, answered the description of a young man sighted at the School-book Depository Building just after Mr. Kennedy was shot while his motorcade was passing the building. office, was red-eyed as he said in New York: "I share the sense of shock and dismay that all Americans feel at the despicable act that resulted in the death of our nation's President. Mrs.

Eisenhower and I also join with all other citizens in expressing our personal grief and prayerful concern to Mrs. Kennedy and all other members of the family." Herbert Hoover, who resides in the same New York hotel in which Eisenhower was staying, said: "I am shocked and dren." SENATOR Barry Goldwater Ariz.) who had often opposed Mr. Kennedy politically, called the President's death "shocking and and asked how "a thing like this could happen." "The President's death is a profound loss to the nation and the free world," Goldwater said. "He and I were personal friends. It is also a great loss to me.

Mrs. Goldwater and I offer our heartfelt sympathies to Mrs. Kennedy and the President's family." Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who lost the Presidency to Mr. Kennedy, The suspect was arrogant as he was brought in for questioning.

When he saw a crowd of from men in high office across the land. Lament crossed party lines and differences. Harry S. Truman, on whom an assassination attempt was made in 1950, said at his home in Independence, the President's death was a "tragedy." "I am shocked beyond words at the tragedy that has happened to our country and to President Kennedy's family today," he said. "The President's death is a great personal loss to the country and to me.

He was an able President, one the people loved and trusted." Dwight D. Eisenhower, the slain President's predecessor In MRS. KENNEDY, Mrs. Connally and a Secret Service agent were in the car with the President and Connally. Two more Secret Service agents flanked the car.

None of these was injured in the shooting. Mrs. Kennedy cried "Oh, no!" and tried to hold up the President's head after the shooting. She was in the hospital near her husband when he died, but was not in the operating room itself. She walked beside his bronze casket when it was taken from the hospital.

Just before 7 p.m., Capt. Fritz said Oswald had been identified from a police lineup as the man who shot Patrol-Turn to Page 2A, Column 1 newsmen, he raised his handcuffed hands in a clinched fist, The President's Death John F. Kennedy: An obituary. Pages 6A-8A. Lyndon B.

Johnson, the new President. Page 3 A. 1 The tragedy In Dallas. Pictures and stories. Pages 4A-5A.

Shock and grief stun the people of the world. Reaction front various riations, comments from world leaders, and other stories and pictures on the President and his death. Pages 2A, 9A, 12 13 14 15 A 16 Back Page. Police said Oswald worked at the Book Depository Building grieved to learn of President Kennedy's assassination. He loved America and has given had lived in Russia, and married the Russian woman.

On Nov. 1, 1959, he had said he said: "The assassination of the his life for his country I join our bereaved nation in heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. Turn to Page 2A, Column 6 I Turn to Page 2A, Column 7.