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KENNEDY, slumped down in car unidentified man stands on the vehicle's bumper. Kennedy after being shot today. Mr. Kennedy leans over President as Has rushed to the hospital, where he died shortly thereafter. Mansfield Calls Senate Recess On News Of Shooting Dallas, Nov.

22 (TP) President John F. Ken-nedy, thirty-sixth President of the United States, was shot to death today by a hidden assassin armed with a high-powered rifle. Kennedy, 46, lived about an hour after a sniper cut him down as his. limousine left downtown Dallas. Automatically, the mantle of the Presidency fell to Vice President Lyndon li.

Johnson, a native Texan who had been riding two cars behind the Chief Executive. There was no immediate word on when Johnson would take the oath of office. Kennedy died at Parkland Hospital, where his bullet-pierced body had been taken in a frantic but futile effort to save his life. Also lying woended at the same hospital was "Governor John Connally of Texas, who was cut down by the same fusillade that ended the life of the youngest man ever elected to the Presidency. Connally and his wife had been riding with the President and Mrs.

Kennedy. Cradled His Head The First Lady cradled her dying husband's blood-smeared head in her arms as the Presidential limousine raced to the hospital. "Oh, no," she kept crying. Connally slumped in his seat beside the Presi dent. Police ordered an unprecendented dragnet of the city, hunting for the assassin.

They believed the fatal shots were fired by a white man about 30, slender of build, weighing about 165 pounds, and standing 5 feet 10 inches tall. The murder weapon reportedly was a 30-30 rifle. Given Last Rites Of Church Shortly before 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. 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. (C.S.T.) according to an and faiths, are praying for the President and Gov. (John Con- nally" of Texas, who also was shot. At the Justice Department, At the Interior Department, news bulletins of the shooting were posted in a corridor and hundreds of employees crowded in relays to read the latest information. It was reported that similar situations existed in other Government departments which receive news service directly during scores of workers thronged the corridor outside the Attorney Gen eral's fifth-floor office.

The little room housing teletype machines Washington, Nov. 22 The Senate recessed "pending developments" today as word reached the Capitol that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. The House was not in session. Senator Mansfield the Democratic leader, made the motion at 1.56 P.M. Senator Morse Ore.) said just before the Senate recessed.

"If ever there was an hour when all Americans should pray, this is the hour." Without mentioning the shooting, th grave-faced Mansfield went through the normal mechanics of legislating before asking the recess. remaining at the Kennedy Hickory Hill estate, in McLean, Va. Senator Edward M. Kennedy the President's other brother, was presiding over the Senate today when word came that the President had been shot. An aide told him and he rushed from the Senate chamber.

"This Is Terrible" Newsmen carired the word to the House Speaker, John W. Mc-Cormack Mass.) at the luncheon table. "This is terrible," he said in an almost inaudible voice. "All I can say is that it is terrible thing, and all Americans, of all religions! of the two wire services was packed. Occasionally a man would rip a new report from the tickers and shout the latest developments to an eagerly listening crowd.

the day. At Virginia Estate Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, the President's younger brother and closest adviser, was having lunch at home when word of his brother's shooting reach him. Kennedy's personal secretary said the Attorney General was A few assistant attorneys milled around Kennedy's large ofhee where a TV set kept them up to date on developments in Dallas. Vietnamese Council Fires 37 Officers Britain Is Shocked By Shooting News London, Nov.

22 (Reuters) Britain was shocked tonight by reports that President Kennedy was shot and critically wounded in Dallas. Agency reports of the shooting were immediately communicated to Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Sir Alec was spending the week- mander of the 4th Army Corps, who is also in disgrace, is a member of the Cao Dai religious sect. Some observers believed it likely his removal may be partly due to pressure from other leaders of the Cao Dai who regarded him as a traitor in joining Diem. Diem suppressed the Cao Dai as a military and political force, and the new military junta is making a determined effort to win back their support for the fight against the Communist Viet Cong in the Mekong Delta, where there are an estimated 1,500,000 Cao Daists.

JOHN F. KENNEDY announcement by Malcolm Kilduff, acting White House press secretary. 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 Senator Yarborough Texas) who had been riding three cars behind Kennedy.

"Somehting Tragic Had Happened" "You could tell something awful and tragic had happened," the Senator said 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 a triple underpass. The shots were fired from above possibly frow one of the bridges or from a nearby building. One witness, television reporter, Mai Couch, haid he saw a gun emerge from an upper story of a warehouse commanding an unobstructed view of the Presidential car.

First Since McKinley Kennedy 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 succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage at Warm Springs, in April, 1913. Roosevelt had been enjoying a vacation when he died. McKinley had been shaking hands at a reception at an exposition in Buffalo, N.Y.

Kennedy and his wife had just passed the halfway point in a three-day speaking tour through Texas. The President already had prepared a lunch-IConlinufd, Page A Column 3J Whkh Twin Had The Pain Pills? -gt ft Tacoma, Nov. 22 I II' end with the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk at Arundel Castle inn Sussex, southern England. Foreign Secretary R. A.

Butler was also being informed of the reports. An American Embassy spokesman said Ambassador David Bruce was immediately informed of the reports. There was a sense of shock and distress among the American community here at the news. Ikeda, Party KeepControl Of The Diet Tokyo, Nov. 22 Despite inroads by moderate leftists and independents, Premier Hayato Ikeda's conservatives maintained overwhelming control of the Japanese Parliament in final unofficial election returns today.

Though Ikeda appeared to have won a mandate to continue at the helm of the pro-Western Government, the winning margin of his Liberal-Democratic party in yesterday's election of a new lower house fell below his expectations. The final unofficial returns gave the Liberal-Democrats 283 seats in the 467-seat ruling lower house. This was 13 less thaji the 296 won in 19H0 and 3 short of the 2S6 the conservatives held at dissolution three weeks ago. Saigon, South Vietnam, Nov. 22 (Reuters) The South Vietnam military revolutionary council today dismissed 31 high-ranking military officers from their posts and gave them leave without pay for an indefinite period.

The official Vietnam Press news agency said actions of the officers during their period of service were under investigation. The officers, including one brigadier general, were all regarded as having been favored by the late President Ngo Dinh Diem and several occupied major military or administrative posts. Diem Device The Diem regime was ousted by a military coup November 1. Leave without pay was a punishment often meted out by Diem himself to officers whose loyalty he suspected. It prevents the officers from taking other work since they remain technically members of the armed forces, but without pay.

A number of the officers were known to have opposed the coup 8gainst Diem. Air Force Col. Buynh Hull was arrested in the early stages of the coup to render him ineffective. Cao Dai Member Col. Bui Dzinh, of the 9th Division, was late in joining the coup leaders, maintaining an ambivalent attitude until it was certain the coup had succeeded.

Brig. Gen. Van Thanh Cao, not to be confused with Brig. Gen Huynh Van Cao, former com When you have 2-year-old identical twins trouble comes in double doses. Yesterday Lita or was it Rita? swallowed some powerful pain pills.

Which twin needed the stomach pump? wondered their mother, Mrs. Hannah Maclntyre. Doctors solved the problem by pumping both stomachs, a solution not particularly pleasing to the innocent twin whoever that was. Stock Market Closes Early New York, Nov. 22 The New York Stock Exchange closed early today because of the shooting of President Kennedy.

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