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I ft i 1 Americans Pass JFK Bier Throng Nig Phoenix WealhiT tWTr Today's Prayer REPTI AR IC EE OUR FATHER, forgive the indifference of Thy people. Tearh us that what we need most is not a better economy but a belter faith to live by the ways of Thy kingdom. Some cloudiness at times but mostly fair through tonight. Yesterday's temperatures: high 61, low 44; relative humidity: high 76, low 39. Details Tage 28.

THE STATE'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER 7 lth Year, No. 90, 36 Pages Phoenix, Arizona, Monday, November 25, 1963 TELEPHONE: 271-8000 Ten Cents a immMf 31 --r viJ3 urp7im i If i 0 I ih A i r'W I i- i'' I -v v. 1 i Jf fc 1 r. -i 1 t. ''y'i rO1 I vv I 1 I i 1 1 Criticism Sharp in Murder By ASSOCIATED TRESS MOST OF the nation reacted with sharp criticism Suspect in Killing of President Slain DALLAS (AP) Lee Harvey Oswald met a merciless death amid a crowd yesterday just as President John F.

Kennedy did 18 hours earlier. The accused presidential assassin as shot and killed during a jail transfer. Jack Rubinstein, alias Jack Ruby, 52, bachelor owner of a downtown Dallas strip-tease joint, brooding since Kennedy's untimely death, stepped wordlessly forward from onlookers outside City Hall to send a single, pistol bullet into Oswald's abdomen. I he shooting was witnessed on tele vision by millions of Americans mourn ing the death of President Kennedy. jail, there to await trial for Kennedy's assassination.

An armored car was standing by for the transfer. Oswald died at 1:07 p.m. in the same against the shooting yesterday of Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President Kennedy. But there were some who felt the slaying was justifieda few even suggesting Oswald's assailant should be decorated for his act. "I think it is ridiculous," said Barbara Smiet of Chicago.

"Now maybe somebody will shoot the guy who shot Oswald. What arc they gaining by it?" An unidentified woman, who called the Albany (N.Y.) Times-Union moments after she witnessed the shooting of Oswald on television, said, "They ought to give whoever (Continued on Tage 2, Col. See Editorial on Tage 6 Television cameras were trained on Oswald as the shot was fired. It sounded like a firecracker. A macabre cheer went up from some of the spectators as the 24-year-old Oswald, a self-styled Communist, crumpled unconscious at Ruby's feet, within a cordon of escorting police officers.

"It's too good for him!" sounded one man's voice above the ensuing tumult. Oswald was cut down at 11:20 a.m. while being taken from City Hall detention quarters to a permanent maximum security cell in the Dallas County hospital where President Kennedy expired Friday, with the same hectic medical activity going on around him; with two of the same doctors working over him who labored vainly to save the President's life. Ruby was charged with murder in Oswald's slaying. (Continued on Page 2, Col.

5) Phots Copy ri9ht, Th Dallat Mornint Newi, Photo by Jack Been, Staff Photographer SLAYING OF OSWALD This photograph was owner Jack Ruby, pulled the trigger to snuff out taken in Dallas city jail a split second before the the life of the man accused as assassinating Presi-man with the gun, identified as Dallas night club dent John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald. Americans Mourn for JFK Sorrowful Lines Pass Bier All Nighl Lonir mother had been in her son's presence since he fell before the sniper's bullet in Dallas Friday. A few hours before had come word that the President's assassin Lee Oswald, himself had been slain. Mrs.

Jacqueline Kennedy, a veiled madonna in black, personally relinquished her slain husband to the people at the conclusion of ceremonies that began with a procession to Capitol Hill and ended with her first kiss on the closed casket. AFTER BRIEF but moving eulogies Mrs. Kennedy, with five-year-old Caroline at her side, walked to the bier, knelt with the child and placed her Mrs. Kennedy suddenly appeared in the rotunda from the night with Atty. Gen.

Robert Kennedy at her side. Again she knelt and kissed the casket. After a moment she rose and looked dazedly about, until the attorney general took her arm and led her outside. The people paying their respects at the capitol, and police were certain all could not possibly be admitted before the funeral, came from Washing and its suburbs, and from other eastern towns and cities. They arrived into the night on trains, buses and planes.

Most of those standing six and eight abreast in the long lines were among the officially estimated 300,000 that lined yPI'Wil jwmi.ui. ptijpp 11 nil I I 4.1 mmr 11 11 -j, till S- J. II I II I rTTT if nf By ROBERT BARKDOLL WASHINGTON (UP I) -John Fitzgerald Kennedy received a great outpouring of homage from his fellow Americans last night as his grieving widow twice joined them at his bier. Thousands upon thousands of people from all segments of life filed past his flag-draped coffin as it rested on a catafalque in the rotunda of the floodlit U.S. Capitol.

The lines at one time stretched five abreast for some 26 blocks. And in the evening as dignitaries from more than 50 foreign lands arrived in Washington to join her for today's funeral, the black-clad Mrs. Kennedy knelt and reverently kissed the casket for the second time in an emotion wracked day. She appeared unexpectedly at 9:07 p.m. as thousands still waited in somber silence to share her grief.

Then, accompanied by the late President's brother, Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, she walked for several blocks. Only when she was recognized by passers-by did she step into a car which had been following her.

A LITTLE later, the Presi lips on the covering flag. John F. Kennedy who will be three today, had been standing quietly with his mother. But shortly before she walked forward he became restless and tried to make friends with those nearby. A naval aide led him away.

Then some seven hours later the procession route as, to the muted cadence of muffled drums, the body of the president was borne to the capitol down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. WASHINGTON officials, vet. eran crowd handlers, were amazed by the size of the throng that stood in line for as much as six hours to reach the bier. So vast was the throng paying respects that the White House arranged that the rotunda would remain open throughout the night in hopes all could pass by. When the pubic was first ad- (Continued on.

Page 4, Col. 6) Leaders Pour Into Capital World" leaders or their representatives pour into Washington for state funeral of President John F. Kennedy. Story Page 4. dent's mother, Mrs.

Rose Kennedy, recently arrived from Massachusetts, knelt with other family members beside the bier. At that time, 60,000 already had paid their respects. It was the first time the AP Wlrtphoto LAST KISS Jacqueline Kennedy places a kiss on the casket of her husband as her daughter, Caroline, kneels by her side..