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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
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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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