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71 Partly cloudy through tomorrow. High today lliil i I tiiffia IEWS LA.UDERM OKI home ra FINAL 'hsSy 80. 1 a Low tonight a 70. llfOTiiiilj Weather data Page 14A. Service Member Of The Associated Press, VPI Chicago Tribune Press Service 60 Pases FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 53 rd Year 7 ii tec jiif- ftM4 m.Mti JoiM fell Four Sections John-John, bewildered by the solemnity, cried for a moment.

His mother spoke softly to him, and his tears stopped. All along the way from the White House to the cathedral and in the streets around the cathedral tens of thousands of Americans stood in silence. OCCASIONAL SOB No words came from these countrymen of the man who died at a sniper's hands on Friday. Only an occasional sob. Among those in the vast and glittering cathedral, with its district attorney, filed murder charges against Ruby and said he would ask for the death penalty.

"A second assassination doesn't help (justify) the first one," he said. "I will seek the death penalty for Ruby even if he pleads guilty because shooting a handcuffed man deserves the death penalty." Oswald died without speaking a word. There was no Kennedy Funeral Cortege As It Moved From Capitol Plaza Today -tv Leader ion lvi Full ISEA 25, 1963 old widow, who three times had knelt in prayer beneath the Capitol dome beside his casket. Flanked by her brothers-in-law, Atty. Gen.

Robert F. Kennedy and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, she walked the six blocks from the White House to the old brick cathedral erectly, firmly and resolutely. A church bell tolled, a choir on the grass outside the White House sang hymns, drums played a soft tattoo.

ji.h John Jr. rode to the church in a car. When they joined their mother, shot Oswald out of concern for Mrs. Kennedy. Dean, said Ruby did not want Mrs.

Kennedy to "go through the ordeal of returning to Dallas" and testifying at Oswald's trial. EASE LEGAL PROCESS He said Ruby decided to "obviate" the legal process by executing Oswald himself. Henry Wade, Dallas County Sis' Ju a. 5 CZ3 I kk. By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Infemsftonsl WASHINGTON The soul of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, martyred 35th President of the United States, was commended today to the care and mercy of God.

At a simple Roman Catholic funeral mass, conducted by an old friend, the grief-numbed Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and her little boy and girl, heard these words of comfort and promise: "Life is not taken away Life is but changed." And from the words of Christ, recorded by St. John: "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me, even if he die, shall live." Also listening were the great of the nation and 53 others. Among them were the new President, Lyndon B. Johnson, and two former Presidents, Harry S. Truman and Dwight D.

Eisenhower. Among them also were the towering Gen. Charles de Gaulle of France; Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mi-koyan; Prince Phillip of Great Britain, and a host of other chiefs of state, kings, premiers, ministers and special emissaries. The pontifical requiem Mass, preceding burial on a grassy slope in Arlington National Cemetery, was conducted in the 65-year-old St.

Matthews Cathedral by Richard Cardinal Cushing of Boston, the friend and pastor who had performed the Kennedys' marriage ceremony in 1953 and baptized their children, Caroline and John Caroline will be 6 on Wednesday. The slain President's beloved "John-John" INSIDE STORY Pictures of Oswald Murder 3B Oswald Slaying Revolt Against Justice 10A DA Certain Oswald Was Assassin 10A Jack Ruby: A Profile 6A Dallas Citizens 7A Slain Policeman's Funeral 7A The Nationally Televised Murder 9B President Eulogized by Friends 12A John-John Wanted Flag for Daddy 12B World Leaders Arrive for Funeral 13A First in a Series on President Johnson 15A was 3 today the day of bis father's funeral. The last journey for the man who will always be remembered by his countrymen as the jaunty and buoyant and deeply dedicated JFK began at 10:43 a.m. That was when his flag-draped casket left the great rotunda of the Capitol where three other martyred presidents also had lain in state. It was drawn by seven gray horses to the White House and thence to St.

Matthew's. The slain President was followed all the way on his last journey by his lovely 34-year- Oswald's Secret Sealed By Assassin's Bullet magnificent red and white marble altar, was a woman who had been weeping for Jacqueline. She was Mrs. Eisenhower, whose eyes were wet and red. A moment before the mass began, Mrs.

Kennedy took her children by the hand and led them to where Cardinal Cushing stood to greet them. As the eight service men bore the casket into the cathedral, they removed their hats. The cardinal, in the resplendent robes of his office, sprin- Continued on Page 14A, Col. 7) chance for a death-bed confession. He had steadfastly maintained he had nothing to do with the assassination of Mr.

Kennedy, the wounding nt Gov. John Connally, who was riding with Mr. Kennedy, and later the slaying of Dallas police officer J. D. Tippitt.

Wade said, however, there was more than enough evi- Continued on Page 14A, Col. 2) Forking T4 Ar I Oswald Taken i (AP Wirephotos) Umfwl Press International DLLAS Police closed the books today on Lee Harvey Oswald and the world will never know what was in his mind. He was shot to death as President Kennedy's assassin by a self-appointed executioner before a nationwide television audience. While the martyred President was being buried in Arlington National Cemetery, mourned by the world, the Communist-Castro sympathizer accused of slaying him lay on a cold marble slab in a mortuary, disgraced. He died with his lips sealed.

He took to the grave with him the reason Mr. Kennedy was killed if, as police are convinced without doubt, he was the assassin. The 24-year-old pro-Castro Marxist was being transferred in handcuffs from city jail to a maximum security cell at the county jail house when Jack Ruby, a one-time Chicago street brawler and owner of a Dallas striptease night club, leaped from a crowd of newsmen and policemen with a curse, jammed a snub-nosed .38 caliber pistol into Oswald's side and fired one shot. "You son of a bitch," he shouted. Oswald jerked back.

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