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1 no Evening Ga stte A Newspaper for the Home Information and enjoyment for every member of the family EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR No. 202 PHONE FA 3-3161 38 PAGES 10 CENTS RENO, NEVADA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1963 Ifnl v7 iLilg hp 1 lppHpPMPPjJ Motorcade Ambushe Texas Governor it DALLAS (AP) President John F. Kennedy, thirty- sixth president of the United States, was shot to death today by a hidden assassin armed with a high-powered let-pierced body had been taken in a frantic but futile effort to save his life. Lying wounded at the same hospital was Gov. John Connally of Texas, who was cut down by the same fusillade that ended the life of the president.

Connally and his wife had been riding with the President and Mrs. Kennedy. The First Lady cradled her dying husband's blood- rifle. Kennedy, 46, lived about an hour after a sniper cut him down as his limousine left downtown Dallas. smeared head in her lap as the car sped to the hospital.

DALLAS (AP) A secret service agent and a Dallas policeman were shot and killed today. They were shot some distance from the area were President Kennedy was assassinated. No other information was immediately available. WlnJ "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. They believed the fatal shots were fired by a white Automatically, the mantle of the presidency fell to man, about 30, slender, weighing about 165 pounds, and standing 5 feet 10 inches tall. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, a native Texan who had been riding two cars behind the chief executive. PRESIDENT KENNEDY MOMENTS BEFORE DEATH The murder weapon was reportedly a 30-30 rifle.

Shortly before Kennedy's death became known, he There was no immediate word on when Johnson would take the oath of office. was administered the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church. He had been the first Roman Catholic president Kennedy died at Parkland Hospital where his bul- in American history. Nevadans Grief -stricken At President's Death Kennedy Lashed Out at Critics Of Nation's Foreign Policy any more, said Sen. Walter fson as a sort of Superman this Nevadans were stunned today lit the shooting of President Ken Whitacre, R-Lyon.

just couldn't happen to." "A great President is dead," nedy in Dallas. President Kennedy, in "We don't need to lose presidents like this, this is terrible tions, America's leadership must be guided by the lights of learning and reason or else "All we can do is pray in a his last prepared speech, said Sen. Henry Berrum, R- said Gov. Grant Sawyer, stunned as Nevadans at the shooting of President Kennedy case like this," said Mrs lashed out at critics whom those who confuse rhetoric with Douglas. "Very tragic." George Gottschalk, national in Dallas.

Democratic committeewoman of Carson City. "It was a tremen he said confuse rhetoric with reality. His bold and courageous "It is unbelievable that such a thing should happen in a period of "Uncertainty," said Assemblyman Jake Von Toble, D- Even as two clergymen hovered over the fallen President in the hospital emergency room, doctors and nurses administered blood transfusions. Kennedy died of a gunshot wound in the brain at approximately 1 p.m. CST according to an announcement by acting White House press secretary Malcolm Kilduff.

The new President, Lyndon Johnson, and his wife left the hospital a half hour later. Newsmen had no opportunity to question them. The horror of the assassination was mirrored in an eyewitness account by Sen. Ralph Yarborough, who had been riding three cars behind Kennedy. "You could tell something awful and tragic had happened," the senator told newsmen before Kennedy's death became known.

His voice breaking and his eyes red-rimmed, Yarborough said: "I could see a Secret Service man in the President's car leaning on the car with his hands in anger, anguish and despair. I knew then something tragic had happened." Yarborough had counted three rifle shots as the presidential limousine left downtown Dallas through leadership in the social prob dous shock. It sort of stuns a His prepared remarks had person, she said. It was lems of our time may have cost his life," said Sawyer. "To every member of his family, all been released to newsmen something tragic.

It came so Clark. "I'm very shocked," said As suddenly. What can a person semblyman Lawrence E. Jacob- when he fell victim to an assassin's bullets. Nevadans extend our deepest PRESIDENT JOHNSON cay?" "I think it is a very shocking sympathy." thing that in America a differ Flags were lowered to half INDEX DALLAS (AP) President Kennedy lashed out today at sen, R-Douglas "It gave me the shivers.

I was speechless." "I'm sick about it," said Sen. J. L. Bay, D-Eureka. "He was one of our best president's and when a thing like this happens, it cuts deep." "A terrible calamity for the country a terrible thing I'm taken too suddenly to say those he said "confuse rhetor mast at state office buildings, which were closed this afternoon and probably will remain closed until after the funeral if it is Monday or Tuesday, a ic with reality." Speaking in an area where supporters are booming Sen.

spokesman said. Barry Goldwater's chances for At Lake Tahoe, the Presi reality and the plausible with the possible will gain the ascendancy with their seemingly swift and simple solutions to every world problem." Goldwater's recent proposal that American commanders in the field be given authority to use nuclear weapons on their own initiative has drawn bristling criticism from administration leaders Kennedy also said: "There will always be dissident voices heard in the land, expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side and seeking influence without responsibility," he said. "Their voices are inevitable," he added. Kennedy said that these voices were preaching doctrines wholly unrelated to reality and that they "apparently assume thajvords will suffice without weapons, that vituperation is as good as victory, and that peace is a sign of weaknessr the 19G4 Republican nomination, Kennedy said that ignorance dent's brolher-in-law, actor Peter Lawford planned to leave immediately for Los Angeles to a triple underpass. The shots were fired from above- and misinformation "if allowed ence of opinion could take this recourse against a country's leader," said Sen.

Carl F. Dodge, R-Churchill. "It is a very disturbing thing regardless of political affiliation." "I was just plain shocked," said Assemblyman R. Guild Gray, R-Clark, "I was stunned. I heard the death report over the radio.

I just what can a man say at a time like this? AH we can do is pray." "A tremendous s'aid Sen. William E. Dial, R-Orms-by. "It's just a shame anything like this can happen in this day and age." "What can you say?" asked Sen. Roger Bissett, D-Washoe.

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Dallas to join the rest of the In a speech prepared for the Kennedy family. possibly from one of the bridges or from a nearby building. One witness, television reporter Mai Couch, said he saw a gun emerge from an upper story of a warehouse commanding an unobstructed view of the presidential car. Kennedy was the first president to be assassin "The first thing which oc Dallas Citizens Council, the Dallas Assembly and the Graduate TRAGIC DAY SEN. BIBLE: 'Civilization has never suffered a more tagic day," said Sen.

Alan Bible, today on the death of President Kennedy. "The world has lost one of its greatest leaders, humanity a noble champion and the United States of America a fearless, couragous President, whose name will be enshrined forever in immortality," Research Center of the South west, Kennedy did not specific ally mention Goldwater by curred to me after hearing of the shooting was the dangerous element in our society," said Charles Springer, Democratic state chairman. "This is one of the outgrowths of reactionary is a resurg- ated since William McKinley was shot in 1901. name. Kennedy said: "In a world of complex and It was the first death of a president in office since Franklin D.

Roosevelt died of the cerebral hemorrhage at Warm in April, 1945, continuing problems, in a world the most monstrous shock I've ever had in my life you tend to think of his type of per- full of frustrations and irrita (Turn to Page 9, Col. 3) 4.