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University of Kentucky
LEXINGTON, KY., TUESDAY, NOV. 2f,

Vol. LV, No. 47

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UK Honors Kennedy
In Memorial Tribute

By HARRY KELLY
Associated Press Staff Writer
A mourning nation buried
WASHINGTON

Over 5,000 students and faculty and staff members gathered in the Coliseum yesterday morning to attend the Memorial Service for President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
The convocation, presided over by Dr. John W. Oswald, president of the University, included brief statements from four representatives of the University.
Speaking for the students was Paul Chellgren, president of Stu-

dent Congress. Dr. Albert D. Kirwin, professor of history and dean
of the Graduate School, spoke for the faculty. The alumni and trustees were represented by Dr. Ralph Angeluccl, chairman of the

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Memorial Hall was open Friday night as students paused for brief
minutes of meditation for the passing of their President John F.
Kennedy.

Eight Pages

World Leaders Join
America In Mourning

By SUE ENDICOTT
Kernel Editor

Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees and past president
of the Alumni Association. The final statement was made by Dr.
Oswald.
The Rev. Robert Estill, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, gave
the invocation and the benediction was given by Father Elmer
Moore, director of the Newman Club.
In beginning the convocation, the president said:
"Friends, we gather here on this solemn day of national mourn-i- g
to pay homage to a great and good man our late President, John
Fitzgerald Kennedy. The great loss has struck at every facet of the
life of this nation and of the world. Just so with our University
where it has affected deeply the students, the faculty, and those of
us responsible for the administration. So it is appropriate at this
memorial convocation that a student, a member of the faculty, and
a trustee of the University speak briefly this morning."
Each of the statements were prefaced by remarks from Dr.
Oswald concerning the late president's interest and support of
education.
These are the words of Paul Chellgren, president of Student
Congress, as he spoke to the convocation yesterday:
"How can mere words adequately express the loss our country
has suffered? By his actions and vitality John Fitzgerald Kennedy
has been an inspiration to my generation. The skill and imagination
he used to cope with his towering responsibilities captured the hopes
of men and women everywhere. President Kennedy was a young
man and like all youns men he made mistakes, but he learned by
those mistakes and rose in stature until he became one of our most
outstanding presidents.
"Three years ago last month in front of our administration building then Senator Kennedy made this statement. 'These are hazardous times, an individual must think of an action he may take,
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in relation to the rest of the world.'
"And what is the rest of the world now saying: What's happening
In the United States; aren't the American people capable of maintaining civil peace?
"There is a significance of the assassination. We must dedicate
ourselves to prove to the world the strength of a democracy. We
cannot go on a witch-huntin- g
expedition to suppress all radical
groups because in doing so we will lose the tolerance and understanding which makes America a democracy. We must show the world
that America is not falling into a pit of violence and hatred.
"My friends, the time for mourning is ending and the time for
moving just begun. The Captain has changed but the nation remains
on course."
Dean Kirwin's words to those present were as follows:
"Today every loyal heart must suffer terrible shock and swell
with
grief at the calamity which has befallen us. It
a deeper loss than if our first soldier had fallen by a hostile bullet;
is
more than if an army had perished in the shock of battle. For it is
of our armies and navies who has
not only the commander-in-chie- f
fallen, but the great civil leader who has given us hope for peace. Nor
has he fallen by the natural course of disease nor in the accepted peril
of war, but by the hand of an assassin from ambush.
"I said that the President brought us hope for peace, but
he gave us courage, too. He had a vibrancy and a gayety about him
and a refreshing wit that made even the most sombre crisis
Continued on Page 7

IN SORROW

JOHN F. KENNEDY

Grave Game
Is Tribute
To Late JFK
By BLITHE RUNSDORF
Assistant Campus Editor

W hile the nation paused to
mourn the death of its 35th
John Fitzgerald
President,
Kennedy, the University received the Tennessee kickoff
for the last game of the
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But life must go on . . . and
even a ballgame can be played
solemnly
From the Kentucky side of the
stadium the flag could be seen
flying at half must just over the
roof of the Bucll Armory
a
constant reminder that today was
different.
The Marching 100 gravely entered ihe field to a quiet drum
cadence, made by tapping their
sticks on the rim of the drums.
Thirty-fiv- e
thousand fans
watched' the game . . . but without the usual cheering, yelling,
and singing. They watched the
game engrossed in their own
thoughts of grief.
The team entered the stadium
. . . . but there was no line of
freshman players and cheerleaders to greet them. They were a
Continued on Page 8

...

...

John F.
Kennedy yesterday on an open hillside sacred with history after
a formal farewell from statemen, countrymen and family.
The youthful President, who sought peace in an age of
hot and cold wars, finds his own peace beside the nation's
heroes in Arlington National Cemetery in a grave overlooking the memorial of another martyred president, Abraham
Lincoln.
reversed in the stirrups, the traBut with the prayers for the ditional
symbol of a slain wardead there were hopes for the rior.
new president, "Lyndon B. JohnAnd after the
son, who briefly layed aside the the crowd of procession passed
spectators broke
awesome problems he inherited
through the police lines and by
to lead 26 presidents, prime minthe thousands marched silently
isters and kings in paying respect
up the broad avenue to the white
to the assassinated Kennedy.
capitol crowning Capitol Hill.
Not since the burial of the unAll night long and into the
known soldier 40 years ago has
lythe
they
there been such a gathering in morning its passed honorbier
under
ing with
guard of
Washington.
the Capitol Rotunda. At times
And many if not all of the the line extended nine
miles, in100 or so dignitaries
including
a seven-howait.
French President
Charles de volving cried. Some carried chilSome
Gaulle, Prince Phillip and Prime
dren in arms to let them have a
Minister Alec Douglas-Hom- e

of
Britain, President Ludwig
of West Germany joined
the grieving Mrs. Kennedy in a
sombre procession that walked
behind the horse-draw- n
caisson
bearing Kennedy's body to St.
Matthew's Roman Catholic Cathedral.
The low pontifical mass was
celebrated by Richard Cardinal
Cushing, Archbishop of Boston
and an old friend of the Kennedy family.
Because of the space limitations, only those with invitations
were allowed up the 13 steps and
into the dark-re- d
brick church.
But in a moving display of sorrow and affection, Americans
mighty and humble paid their
rrespects to their slain leader by
the hundreds of thousands.
They choked the sidewalks
along Pennsylvania Avenue and
flooded the Capitol grounds yesterday as the late president's
body was carried past them on a
caisson drawn by six horses.
Then came the dark riderless
horse, with empty cavalry boots

brush with history.
But even as the crowds waited
along Pennsylvania Avenue for
the start of the procession yesterday a new shock whispered
through the throngs:
Lee Harvey Oswald, the
Marxist and
charged with killing Kennedv,
was himsolf gunned clown and
died in an emergency room at
Dallas' Parklawn Hospital not 13
feet from where Kennedy himself had died Friday.
Oswald breathed his last shortly after the late president's
body was carried by nine servicemen into the capitol.
Cut for President Johnson the
case was not closed. He ordered
the FBI to make an investigation
into Oswald's killing in the Dallas jail basement by a
executioner, Jack Ruby,
the operator of a Dallas strip
joint.
As Oswald slumped to the floor
clawing at his stomach one of the
200 jamming into the basement
shouted: "it's too good for him."
Continued on Page 4

Presidential Assassin Slain;
Night Club Owner In Custody
By The Associate

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Lee
DALLAS, Nov. 24
Harvey Oswald met a merciless death amid a crowd today
just as President John F. Kennedy did 48 hours earlier.
The accused presidential assassin was shot and killed during a jail transfer.
Jack Rubinstein, Alias Ruby,
52, bachelor owner of a downtown

Dallas striptease joint, brooding
since Kennedy's untimely death,
stepped wordlessly forward from
the ranks of onlookers outside
city hall to send a single pistol
bullet into Oswald's abdomen.
The
cold - eyed
Oswald, a self-stylCommunist,
dropped unconscious at Ruby's
feet, within a cordon of escorting
police officers.
A bright November sun shone
down as inexorable fate overtook
Oswald.

Ruby had driven up in his car,
parked, crossed an area toword
City Hall, leaped a three-forailing and worked his way
through newsmen andpolice officials until he was in the front
row. Then, without warning, in
one confusing incident, as network television recorded
the
scene. Ruby put the gun against
Oswald's midriff and pulled the
trigger once.
Moving as one man, a wave of
police bore the gun wielder face
down to the ground, like a football halfback being snowed under by a determined line of
tacklers. Ruby's felt with his initials in it flew off and rolled on
the ground.
There had been reports of
death threats circulating
in
Dallas against Oswald. Ifee decision to go ahead with hi. transfer in broad daylight wIk explained by Dallas Police Chief

Jesse Curry. He told newsmen
afterwards:
"If Ihadn't promised you people I would not take Oswald until this morning, we would have
taken him during the night. I
told you I wouldn't back down
on my pledge."
Wade said Ruby had ready
access to City Hall, and had approached the District Attorney
during a Friday night news conference, saying:
"I'm Jack Ruby. I own the
Carousel Club here."
Wade said he replied that he
thought a Press Club conference
was just for newsmen but that
Ruby said:
"Oh, I know all the policemen
and all the newsmen too. I jast
came down to listen in."
Moments after he was shot,
Oswald was carried inside city
hall to await an ambulance. The
sounds and confusion of the
shooting triggered pandemonium
in downtown Dallas.

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11

University In Mournful Silence For Fallen Chief
ered nt the teletype, the President had been shot.
Immediately the halls begin
to fill as students from adjoining
buildings came to watch the developments as reported by the
Associated Press.
A hundred or more students
and faculty members crowded the
halls to listen to three radios and
watch iiie retyped reports.
Mast 2 p.m. Classes were dismissed as the crowds grew, all
were silent now, to watch for any
word of the President's condition.
Concern deepened
until at
about 2:30 final word came. The
President was dead.
Now the concern grew into
grief. The group stayed for a
moment,, looking in bewilderment at the cold words on the
teletype paper and hearing repeats of the tragic words by radio
commentators. Then, slowly at

By BILL GRANT
Kernel Daily Editor
was as though the pulse

It

of the whole world stopped,
shuttered, and started again
. . . hut ever so slowly, ever so
heavily.
The nation's President was
dead, murdered by an assassin's bullet while on tour in
Dallas, Texas.
"Is it true, is it possible . . ."
were questions on the lips of
faees the world
over. It was no different at
the University.
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The word of the President's
assassination reached the campus
just after 1:30 p.m. Friday afternoon. The first reaction was one
of shocked disbelief, then came
grief, and later anger.
And then after the first words
nnd questions, came the inevitable "Why?" One obviously dazed
professor walked the halls of the
Journalism Building saying only,
"Why. why?"
Like many others on campus,
students in the Journalism Building recrivrd word that the Pres- idi'nt had been shot in an almost
d
casual manner. Further
evidence that no one believed it
could be true.
Miss Bess Mays. Kernel bookkeeper, walked into the Kernel
newsroom and asked several students there, "Did you know the
President's been shot?"
No one stirred, no one believed
it. The answer to her question
in most cases was a joking
"really?"
The Kernel newsroom nnd the
halls of the Journalism Building
are almost
on Fridays
since no Kernel is published for
Saturday.
One by one, students wandered
across the hall to the Associated
Presh monitor, just to see . . .
just in case.
What met horrified eyes was
the first AP bulletin, coming
across the wire about 1:45, saying the President had been shot
during a Dallas motorcade.
Additional news was vague,
there were immediate reports that
the President was dead quickly
cancelled by reports he was slill
alive. But the initial truth hit
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first, people bepan to leave. Heads
bowed, tears filling eyes, the students went home.
Journalists by lot have a reputation for being n hard people.
Even in the time of highest tragedy, their job is to look at the
news coldly and objectively and
report the facts.
The Kernel newsroom is usually a rather jovial place. Now the
scene was different.
The same
room that only moments before
of student
had been the place
laughter was now a place of silent
grief. Only an occasional hushed
remark broke the tearful silence.
Fo it was all over the campus.
Saturday
morning, the initial
shock was still gone but the grief
was still there
in the faces
and in the hearts.
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One commentator remarked
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its speed made the impact of the
assassination even greater on the
nation and the world. But, for
whatever the reasons, its Impact

Cafeteria was almost empty
Saturday morning. "I've never
seen it so empty nnd so quiet.
It was almost like a church," he
said.
Personally, my duties ns a
newsman have taken me to
Washington In the frigid cold of
January, 1961. There I stood in
eight inches of snow to hear that
now famous inaugural address.
I was at Kennedy's political
speeches in Louisville and Lexington both during the campaign
and when he came back In 1962
as President. And I will always
remember that long night I spent
at Blue Grass Field In a cool
September, 1960 waiting for the
candidate to arrive. When, at 2
a.m., the Kennedy plane set
down, he made the night worthwhile for newsmen gathered there
with a strong handclasp and a
cheery "I'm glad to see you here,
even if it Is late."
I suspect that many others who
were there that night were thinking of it Friday Just as I was.
That was the first time I saw
John F. Kennedy. Friday he was
dead.
Across the campus, as across
the nation, the University went
into deep mourning.
Dr. John W. Oswald, UK's president, said he had never seen
young people harder hit. "The
tragedy which has left all of us
stunned has fallen particularly
hard on young people who have
associated President Kennedy
with their hopes and aspirations,
for the future," Dr. Oswald said.
Dr. Amry Vandenbosch, director of the Patterson School of
Diplomacy, said, "Fresident Kennedy had a style and quality
which made him a very attractive
personality. He had preat ability,"
Dr. Vandenbosch said.' "It is a
great tragedy that he was struck
down just as he was reaching the
height of his powers," he said.
The
football
game was played but the holliday
was lacking. A special
atmosphere
halftime tribute to the late President was presented by Dr. Oswald and Gov. Bert T. Combs.
The Brothers Four concert was
postponed until January and
classes were called off Monday in
keeping with President Lyndon
Johnson's proclamation of a National Day of Mourning.
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Through all its years of peace and
war, triumph and tragedy, America
still has not grown up.
This fact was painfully proved
Friday when a hidden sniper violently
snuffed out the youthful life of our
nation's Chief Executive and then
again on Sunday when the suspected
killer was himself shot to death.
The circumstances of the President's death and that of Lee Harvey
Oswald shock us into the realization
that this is still a violent land in the
midst of a violent age.
We had almost forgotten that Presidents are assassinated. President William McKinley, felled by a maniac
in 1801, was our last murdered President. .
The America of today is far different from McKinley 's America. We
are supposed to have matured, taken
upon ourselves the rein of world
leadership, become a great nation.
The "frontier" was still open in
1901 and the law of violence still ruled
the west. It was the law of the six
gun and an eye for an eye. But today's America is no longer a violent,
young nation we say with tearful
hearts. How could this terrible thing
happen in America?
America has not grown up. The
law of the frontier still rules. The nature of our political system is such
that men are taught to hate at their
parents' knee. This inborn hatred
seems only to grow as our people mature.
No other nation on earth, in such a
short time, has achieved such distinction. But during this time, we have
gained the reputation of a nation that
settles arguments violently.
It is little wonder that tragedy like
this can and does happen in a nation
so ready to preach violence and
hatred. Where the hate and reaction
of previous years was a thing of the
deprived and the hurt, hatred today
encompasses every segment of our
society and has made particularly
deep cuts into the middle class.
Almost every American has heard
or uttered the words, "The President
ought to be shot," and national magazines have proclaimed, "The Chief
Justice should be hanged." Now the
tragedy stands mute proof of what
hatred can do. Our President lies
dead, a martyr to hate and prejudice.
We are a polyglot people, composed of every race and creed on
earth all thrown together in the
world's great melting pot. It is little
wonder that racial and political hatreds are many in this land of supposed peace and freedom.
This polyglot nature has led us to
an inner insecurity. We are a nation
of many minorities rather than one
majority.
Technically we are a "literate"
people. But politically we are blindly
illiterate. We cannot see how politicians can be violent political opponents and yet good friends. Our politicians often talk in slogans rather
than facts, hatred is an oft used political tool, we are politically very negative.
on earth has the
No
despicable record of assassinations of
the chief executive that America must
cover in shame.
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No British monarch lias been assassinated since Charles II during the
uprising of 1640. The British Prime
Minister seldom travels with more
than one body guard. Assassination attempts are not even made.
Yet with all the elaborate preparations of our Presidential security
forces, the virtual arsenal of troops
to protect him, the maddened assassin has struck too often at our nation's
highest officer.
Both McKinley and Kennedy have
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the world's great breeding ground for
hatred.
It is our own peculiar brand of
national insanity. We have proven
over and over again that hateinanger-in- g
and hate are successful tools.
Now, in our sorrow, we must come to
realize that in the end, we are only
breeding our destruction.
If no other good is achieved from
this national wrong, perhaps it will
provide the urge for each of us to
take a long hard look at our nation
and ourselves.
By deep introspection into our
national life and purpose, by complete l (dedication with our new President to our national goals, and by
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grow ing up, America can give nu
to the death of John Fitzgerald
Kennedy as it gave meaning to his life.
His memory w ill live on wherever
men love freedom and liberty. May
the memory and the tragic example of
his death ever live in the hearts of
all Americans as an example of what
hate can do.
"Blessed are the dead that die in
the Lord and henceforth they may rest
from their labors and their works will
live after them."
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The following is the eulogy voiced
Senate Majority Leader Mike
Mansfield over the President's body in
the Capitol Rotunda.
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There was the sound of laughter
and, in a moment, it was no more.
And, so she took a ring from her
finger and placed it in his hands.
There was a wit in a man neither
young nor old; but a wit full of an.
old man's wisdom and of a child's
wisdom and, then, in a moment it
was no more. And, so she took a
ring from her finger and placed it
in his hands.
There was a man marked with the
scars of his love of country, a body
active with the surge of a life far, far
from spent and, in a moment, it was
no more. And, so she took a ring
from her finger and placed it in his
hands.
There was a father with a little
boy and a little girl and the joy of
each in the other and, in a moment,
it was no more. And so, she took a
ring from her finger and placed it
in his hands.

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This is the eulogy delivered by
Chief Justice Earl Warren at the Capitol Rotunda Sunday.
There are few events in our national life that unite Americans and
so touch the heart of all of us as the
passing of a president of the United
States.
There is nothing that adds shock
to our sadness as the assassination of
our leader, chosen as he is to embody
the ideals of our people, the faith wo
klnnedv
have in our institutions, anil our belief in the fatherhood of Cod and tho
brotherhood of man.
Such misfortune has befallen tho
nation on other occasions, but never
more shockingly than two days ago.
We are saddened. We are stunned.
We are perplexed.
It has been said that the only thing
There was a husband who asked
much and gave much and, out of the we learn lrom history is that we do
giving and the asking, wove with a l;ot learn.
But suerly w e can learn if w e have
woman what could not be broken in
life and, in a moment, it was no more. the will to do so. Surely there is a
And so, she took a ring from her lesson to be learned from this tragic
finger and placed it in his hands, and event.
If we really love this country; if
kissed him, and closed the lid of a
we truly love justice and mercy; if
coffin.
we fervently want to make this naA piece of each of us died at that
tion better for those who are to folmoment. Yet, in death he gave of
low us, we can at least abjure the
himself to us. He gave us of a good
hatred that consumes people, the
heart from which the laughter came.
false accusations that divide us and
He gave us of a profound wit, from
the bitterness that begets violence.
which a great leadership emerged.
Is it too much to hope that the
He gave us of a kindness and a
martyrdom of our beloved President
fused into the human courstrength
might even soften the hearts of those
age to seek peace without fear.
who would themselves recoil from asHe gave us of his love that we, sassination, but who do not shrink-frotoo, in turn, might give. He gave'
spreading the venom which
that we might give of ourselves, that kindles thoughts of it in others?
we might give to one another until
Our nation is bereaved. The wholo
there be no room, no room at all, world is poorer because of his loss.
for the bigotry, the hatred, prejudice
But we can all be better Americans
and the arrogance which converged in because John Fitzgerald Kennedy has
that moment of horror to strike him passed our way; because he has been
down.
our chosen leader at a time in history
when his character, his vision, and
In leaving, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President of the United States, his quiet courage have enabled him to
leaves w ith us these gifts. Will we chart for us a sale course through
take them, Mr. President? Will we the shoals of treacherous seas that enhave, now, the sense and the responcompass the world.
And now that he is relieved of the
sibility and the courage to take them?
I pray to Cod that we shall, and
almost superhuman burdens we iin
under Cod we will.
posed on him, may he rest in peace.

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been killed in this, the most "civilized" of centuries. Attempts were
made on the lives of Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Harry Truman within
the last 30 years.
And so America stands before the
world withone great blood stain on its
national self respect.
We must all join together in asking, "how could it happen?"
And tearfully we must conclude,
our national sanity is not so different from any other land but we are

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KERNEL, Tuesday, Nov. 2f, 19C3

Lyndon Ihiincs Johnson

Solemn Successor Takes Over
Nov. 23
Lyndon
(Ar) Solemn-face15.
Johnson shouldered the
lull massive burden of presidential duty today in the
tempo set by his first order
as Chief Executive "now let's
get airborne."
For all the new president's

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tbvlous shock and sorrow It was
a business day devoted to the
awesome task of picking up the
leins Kennedy dropped when a
tniper's bullet struck him down.

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Catapulted Into the highest
office by the assassin's bullets
that cut down President John F.
Kennedy in Dallas yesterday, the
solemn-face- d
Johnson:
Made a quick visit to the White
House, perhaps for a president's
early morning session in the map
bedecked "Situation Room" where
the nation's security affairs are
screened.
Turned away from the Executive Mansion where Kennedy
lay in death, leaving it as a center for a nation's mourning, and
moved business to his old vice
presidential quarters in the
Building across a little

street.

Met with Congressional leaders,
also called in on short notice, to
go over the legislative situation
to help decide
and perhaps
whether Congress should call off
business for the whole thanksgiving week, in mourning and for
a reworking of plans.
The Kennedy Administration
foreign foreign policy seems certain to be continued without
change by the new President in
the weeks immediately ahead.

But eventually some modification
appears inevitable.
Kennedy's assassination seems
certain also to shake foreign
confidence temporarily In tJ.S.
Leadership of the free world alliance, since even a peaceful and
legal change of President's always has the effect of rendering
the future uncertain for the
Allies.
How quickly
firm lead Is restored will depend on the speed
and decision with which the new
Chief Executive makes a clear
his major policy line.
As Vice President, Lyndon B.
Johnson has been a
plans for dealing with
those matters.
line supporter of President Kennedy's policies and the specific
programs
developed to carry
them out.

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of America's most significant

achievements in the past
50 years?

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Let me put it this way. During
the last halt century what new
ideas have led to important
benefits for the American people?
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4. I'll rephrase the question. Since
1912, what developments can you
think of that have made the lot
of the working man easier?

Now you're getting tricky.;

system.

Give it a try.
Well, speaking off the top of
iny head, I might say
stretch socks.

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they've lt I'll iisetul. Hut isn't
there sunn thing with a Lit mora
social significance that comes
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Today, the working man
and his family enjoy a broad
spectrum of protection
provided by Croup Insurance,
i'or that reason, I would
most emphatically suggest
its inclusion among the
significant achievements. But
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his mother and sister to the services, but too young to understand figited and finally had to
be led away. His third birthday
was yesterday.
And then at the end, Mrs.
Kennedy walked up to the closed
coffin with little Caroline beside
her. She knelt and kissed it.
Later in the night and alone
except for Atty. Gen. Robert F.
Kennedy, she returned and pass-ni- g
through the long lines of
those who came to pay their respect, she once again knelt and
kissed her husband's casket.
Where Kennedy will be laid to
rest today is about half way down
a green graveless slope from the
historic Custis-Le- e
Mansion, built
in 1802 by George Washington
Parke Custis, adopted grandson
of President George Washington.
Later it became the home of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
And from it, almost on a direct line crossing the Potomac,
is the Lincoln Memorial, then the
Washington Monument splintering the sky and finally the dome
o fthe Capitol itself off in the
distance.

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