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ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 196360 PAGES nn TlTJ 17 IN METROPOLITAN rKILJi t. Louis Aly Wis rn mum If LM uv UVJ SHUN JOHNSON GIVEN OATH OF OFFICE gov. anr HURT IN ATTACK ON MOTORCADE I yzt 1 () -n 1 1 4 AS PRESIDENT ABOARD PLANE Sworn In by U.S. Woman Judge Prepares to Leave for Washington DALLAS, Nov.

22 UP. Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as President of the United Stales at bout 1:38 p.m. (St. Louis time) today.

The oath was administered by United Stales District Judge Sarah T. Hughes. Johnson took the oath aboard the presidential plane at Dallas's Love Field. He was preparing to fly to Washington to take over the government. By MARQUIS W.

CH1LDS Chief Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch WASHINGTON, Nov. 22-The belief here is that Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson will be sworn 1 in quickly in Dallas as President AAocited Prcs Wlrephoto TnS iitrSon that has Attendina 0 the Wounded President After Shootina hcen followed by several Presi (in vehicle) and an unidentified man lean over the wounded Chief Executive. He died a short time later in hospital. PRESIDENT JOHN F.

KENNEDY slumos down in the back seat of an open automobile after he was shot in Dallas. today. MRS. KENNEDY ivnv," "A $r'SfA DALLAS OFFICER, SECRET SERVICE AGENT KILLED Shootings Occur Some Distance From Assassination Mrs. Kennedy Cradles Husband's Blood-Smeared Head, Cries, 'Oh, No' By RICHARD DUDMAN Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch DALLAS, Nov.

22 President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed today as he was riding in an open limousine through the streets of Dallas. Gov. John B. Connally of Texas, riding in the same car, was seriously wounded by the assassin.

Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was riding in a car behind the President's and was not hurt in the sniper's attack. When Mr. Kennedy died less than an hour after the shooting, the Texan became the thirty-seventh President of the United States. Mr.

Kennedy was 46 years; Johnson is 55. Two or perhaps three shots were fired at the presidential car as it passed through an intersection known as the Triple underpass. The President and the Governor slumped in their seats and the limousine raced to nearby Parkland Hospital. Senator Ralph W. Yarborough Texas, who was in the second car behind the President, said that he heard two or three shots that sounded like thijse of a deer rifle.

Shortly before Mr. Kennedy's death became known, he was administered the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church. He had been the first Roman Catholic President in American history. As two clergymen hovered over the President in the hospital emergency room, doctors and nurses administered blood transfusions. He was the first President to be assassinated since William McKinley was shot in 1901.

It was the first death of a President in office since Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage at Warm Springs, in April 1945. Roosevelt had been on a vacation when he died. McKinley had been shaking hands at a reception at an exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. Lived 20 Minutes The shooting occurred at about 12:45 p.m.

The President, mortally wounded, clung to life for 20 minutes. Assistant White House Secretary Malcolm Kilduff said the President was still alive at 1:05 p.m. Mike Cargile, a student who was standing near the scene of the tragedy, said that he saw the presidential car race past with the President slumped in the back dents so that there will be no pap in the succession. Any judge or justice of the peace exercising current authority has the power to swear in a President. When Warren G.

Harding died In 1923 in a San Francisco hotel, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in Vermont in the middle of the flight by his father, who was a justice of the peace. Coolidge used the family Bible to take the oath of office. At the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1045 of a massive brain hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Vice President Harry Truman was summoned from conference in the Capitol and told the news. As the Roosevelt Cabinet assembled, he was sworn in by the then Chief Justice, Harlan Fiske Stone.

This took place at 7 p.m. President Roosevelt died in the late afternoon. William McKinley. the 25th President of the United States, was shot when appearing at an industrial fair in Buffalo, N.Y. DALLAS, Nov.

22 (AP) -A Secret Service agent and a I 1 I (Ll A Dallas policeman were shot and killed today some distance from the area where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. No other information was available. A later report from Fort Worth, said that soon after President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, a man was arrested in the Riverside section of Fort Worth in the shooting of a Dallas policeman. The man denied that he was connected with the assassination of the President.

He was handcuffed and taken to the Fort Worth city jail. PRESIDENT'S PARENTS TOLD OF SHOOTING HYANNISPORT. Nov. Aoclated Press Wireuhoto Becomes President Wounded in Texas Shooting GOV. JOHN 6.

CONNALLY JR. of Texas who was shot and critically wounded in Dallas, today by the same sniper who assassinated President John F. Kennedy. VICE PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON, who succeeded assassinated President John F.

Kennedy as Chief Executive. Theodoro Roosevelt, the Vice President, was at a remote retreat in the Adirondacks and it tf.ok many hours to bring him to a railhead so that he could go to Buffalo for the swearing in. The fact that Johnson was riding in the motorcade in Dallas and was in the hospital at the time of the President's death makes it seem certain that he will be sworn in as scon as a ceremony can be arranged. Reports from Dallas said the Vice President and Mrs. Johnson had left the hospital and reporters had been unable to question them about their plans.

The Vice President will determine when the ceremony is to be held. STOCK EXCHANGES NEGROES STATE St. Louis Stunned by News, Phones Jammed by Inquiries School Principals Give Details on Public Address Systems Wite lells Of Shnotin? DE1ND AIL 22 (UPI) President John F. tKMSrUKIU Kennedy's mother and father were informed that he was shot. A workman at the Kennedy family compound heard the news IN NEW YORK CITY Declaration Adopted Persons Lie in Street, Block Traffic DALLAS, Nov.

22 (UPI)-Mrs. John Con-nally, wife of the wound-ed Gevernor of Texas, said today she thinks that President John F. Kennedy was shot first. She told the story of the shooting to Julian Read, a Governor's aid. She said the President was in the right rear seat of the open-top limousine.

Mrs. Kennedy was at his left. Connally faced the President on a jump seat and Mrs. Connally faced Mrs. Kenne CLOSE EARLY NEW YORK, Nov.

22 (AP)-The New York stock exchanges closed early today because of the shooting of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. News of the assassination of ment which had been scheduled President John F. Kennedy for tonipht at Kiel Auditorium. c.

Gov. John M. Dalton, attended through St. a conference of Midwestern afternoon with stunning effect. I governors at Omaha, told Shortly after the first word the Post-Dispatch by telephone: was received on news wires at "This is an unbelievable and a 12:45 p.m., telephones were teble thing.

The world has I suffered a tremendous loss. Our jammed and service was de- wor)d image has been greaty layed. damaged. Rdio and television kept up a "I have the highest confidence running account, even with the in Vice President Lyndon John-first franmentarv details, and son. He is a loyal and devoted Cold er A "declaration of civic concern and unity" on racial problems, demanding better earnings, employment and housing, was issued today by a group of Negro leaders.

In a major statement of resolution and purpose, the leaders dy. "They had just gone through listeners and viewers clustered public servant. A heavy respon- on tne raaio ana rusnea iniu the house to tell Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy.

Mrs. Kennedy Is 72 years old. Her husband Josepn, who suffered a stroke in December 1960, is 75. The elder Kennedy was napping when informed of the shooting. His niece, Ann Gargin, 32, who was about to leave for Detroit, canceled her trip.

BANK STRIKE IN ITALY ROME. Nov. 22 (AP)-Serv-ices in commercial and savings banks throughout Italy were disrupted today by a strike of more than 100,000 tellers, clerks and other employes. Pro-Communist and non-Communist unions ordered the 24-hour walkout to support demands for a cost-of-living bonus. NKwS INDEX Official forecast for St.

Louis and vicinity: Rain ending and colder tonight with the low In town. They were pleased at the i around sets and waited for addi- sibility has been thrust upon him reception they had just re- i tinnal reports, at a critical time in our nation's condemned the severity of the ceived. Read said. seat and his wife, Jacqueline, lying across his body. Cargile said the Governor was slumped in the front seat.

Both men were carried by stretcher into the hospital emergency room. Shortly afterward, a carton of blood was rushed to the door and carried inside. Yarborough said he believed that the shots came from behind and to the right of the automobiles. A photographer, who had been riding a few cars behind Yarborough, said the shots apparently came from a rifle pointed out of a fifth or sixth-story window of the Texas Book Depository Building at the highway underpass. Photographer Saw Rifle He said he saw the muzzle of the rifle being pulled inside the window immediately after the shots were fired.

Mrs. Kennedy cradled her dying husband's blood-, smeared head in her arms as the limousine raced to the hospital. "Oh, no," she kept crying. Connally slumped in his seat beside the President. Police ordered an unprecedented dragnet of the city, hunting for the assassin.

In Washington, J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, telephoned the Dallas FBI office and ordered an all-out inquiry. Outside the hospital, a crowd gathered around TURN TO PAGE 2, COLUMN 1 The news was passed to St. nisiory, anu ne win nr uic up- 11 the mid mostly cloudy and sentences pronounced recently pOll HTIU UCHIVIII Ui Oil UUI V.IL- u.cy Km ruy promply heard a shot. "She does not know about the TURN TO PAGE 2, COLUMN 6 Station KSLH.

Principals were I The Board of Aldermen was told to give the details over their in session, but adjourned imme-public address systems, and'diately so the members could classes were continued. listen for further developments onslderably colder tomorrow with the high In the 40s. lemperatures 1 a.m. 59 2 a.m. 59 on television ana raaio.

Alter A midwestern conference of by Circuit Judge Michael J. Scott in 19 contempt of court cases. They rejected any effort to inject politics into the civil rights movement here. They said that St. Louis's long i history of good race relations was a "myth of racial harmony" that had led to "apathy and callous lack of concern about the plight of many thousands of Negro citizens." while the board resumed its Ti ui: cu ia 5-DAY FORECAST: ton-Jefferson Hotel was called sessio" "j13' tl i mained.

When the word of the WARMER, SHOWERS President's death was received, Chairman- William E. Miller 3 a.m. 4 a.m. 5 a.m. 6 a.m.

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12 p.m. 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 3 p.m. Forecast for the St.

Louis area for the next five days: Temperatures will average four to eight degrees above seasonal normals, turning colder over the weekend and then warming Tuesday and Wednesday; normal highs about 50; normal lows in the lower 30s; light showers early next week. Movit Timtl Pictura Pq IF Soti.ly 4F TV-IUdi IF Financial M-IS-liA Obituariti 20 Rial Eitalt 20 SporH a-IOC; Want Adi 2-UD, SC the board ended its session. Donald Gunn, president of the Board of Aldermen, said: "The vicious attack on President Kennedy is a blow to freedom the world over. It strikes against the- principles of democracy for which he so boldly stood. May God protect America from all TURN TO PAGE 2, COLUMN 4 61 'j POT DlfATCM fif WKATHIKHAD aid ll or when he learned of the shooting.

"I don't think it is appropriate and proper to continue," he said. "We are Americans first and Republicans second," Miller said. "This is a national tragedy." Also cancelled by the GOP organization was a fund-raising dinner and a political entcrtain- The statement grew out of the Jefferson Bank and Trust Co. controversy. Another offshoot of that was a downtown demonstration last niR'ht in which five men and two women were arrested for lying Alsop 3E looki 2E Editorial JE Evtrydty Mglin Siction I tOF Ann Lndn 2F Iridqt 2F Crouword Dr.

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