Waco Tribune-Herald from Waco, Texas • 21

Sunday Nov 24 1963 Watfl lPtrah Waco Texas Page 3 Kennedy Had Two Goals Liberty at Home and Peace Abroad veiled almost entirely Io foreign affairs lie set himself two survival ot liberty at home and pence in a world shivering in an "uncertain balance of terror" He invited the Communist world to join in now begin ning of the for peace" before "the dark powers of de struction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accident ni seii "Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate" he'' said Inaugurated with Kennedy was Vice President Lyndon John son of Texas They had served together in tlie Senate where spent eight years Pre viously he had served sLx years in the House Tvntinrflv nt 1 tuafl tlin V'aiiuii 4 cst man ever elected President He succeeded the oldest man ever to hold the office Dwight Eisenhower who was past when ms term expired While Theodore Roosevelt was ahniif ninh mnnlhc vniihtMr than VVMI UIVUUIQ IOUII Kennedy upon becoming Chief Executive he reached that office irom me vice rresiucncy as tne result of William assassination) Kennedy also was the first Roman Catholic President The Democrats had' had a standard bearer of that faith in Gov Alfred Smith of New but he had been defeated hxr TT a VVi AJ MJ AAA Hoover Religion An Issue In the 1960 campaign as in the one a generation earlier religion was much discussed By a coincidence the Re publican nominee each time was a Quaker Both Hoover and Richard Nixon the 1960 candidate disavowed religion as a campaign issue But it re mained a very live one Kennedy was elected with a comfortable electonai majority to 219 with only 269 need but his popular vote mar gin was lhe narrowest in 76years This margin was 113057 out of a total of 68832778 votes cast about one tenth of one per cent The winner's plurality in pop ular votes was the smallest since Democrat Grover Cleve land won by only 62683 over Republican James Blaine in 1884 The total vote cast for the major parties that year was less than 10 million Senator Harry Byrd of Vir ginia though not a candidate received the votes of 14 un pledged electors in Alabama and Mississippi and one Oklahoma Republican elector also cast his ballot for Byrd Normally that vote would have gone to Nixon as he carried Oklahoma The total vote divided this way: Kennedy 34221531 Nixon 34108474 oilier (including mi nority oartics: 502773 Actually the total voter turn out was about 225000 higher than the vote for President That number did not mark their bal lots in the Presidential column though voting for other offices Nixon carried 26 states Ken nedy 22 All of electoral votes were unpledged and went to Byrd Kennedy's electors ran second and third there Six of the 11 Demo cratic electors chosen in Ala bama were unpledged and voted for Byrd also The other five voted for Kennedy Kennedy polled 501 per cent of the major party vote Nixon 499 Of the total vote percentage was 497 49 6 and other 0 7 He was the 14th president to poll less than 50 per cent of the total vote Harry Truman and Woodrow Wilson were others in this century War Hero Author Kennedy descended on both sides from Irish Immigrants of the mid 19th century had an in herited background ot politics and a record of accomplish ments in public affairs He was also a war hero and a success ful author One grandfather Patrick Jo seph Kennedy a saloonkeeper and Democratic ward leader in East Boston served in both branches of the Massachusetts legislature The other John (Honey itz) itzgerald was mayor of Boston for two terms and a Representative in Congress He ran for the Senate in 1916 but was defeated by Henry Cabot Lodge whose grandson and namesake Kennedy defeated in 1952 for reelection to the same office The younger Lodge as Repub lican nominee for Vice Presi aent opposea Kennedy again in the 1960 election Kennedy's father Joseph Kennedy who amassed a for tune that a 1957 survey by or tune Magazine placed in the 5200 to $400 million category served as chairman of the Se curities and Exchange Commis sion and of the Maritime Com mission and later as Am bassador to the Court of St While Nixon took jabs at Ken wealth during the cam paign Kennedy mention it himself But he did discuss his religious faith freely He appeared before a meet ing of the Greater Houston Min isterial Association and told sev eral hundred Protestant minis ters he firmly believed in a com plete separation of church and state and said he thought most Catholics in this country did too A number ot Protestant minis ters notably in the South spoke out in their pulpits against the election of a Catholic President They expressed fear that one of that faith would be under domination ot the Catholic hier archy Kennedy told the ministers in Houston he would resign the Presidency before letting his He put it this way: "If the time should ever come I do not concede any con flicts will be even remotely pos sible when my office would re quire me to either violate my conscience or violate the nation al interest then I would resign the office and I hope any con ftURLlItlUUO ptlUHU iJVCUU do the Pressure Opposed He said no Catholic prelate should tell a Catholic President how to act At the same time lie UJl LLLlUt tJc vtl iiu Protestant minister should tell his congregation how to vote "I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic Protestant nor he sum marized Some Protestant ministers de plored anti Catholicism during a campaign in wliich anti Catho lic literature definitely was cir culated As for Nixon Kennedy ab solved his Republican rival of any part in attacks on his re ligion But his brother and cam paign manager Robert Ken nedy and the Democratic na tional chairman Sen Henry Jackson charged that some local Republican leaders had abetted in the circulation of anti Catholic literature Some Republicans in turn ac cused the Democrats of attempt ing to gain political advantage by trying to keep the religious issue alive in places where Catholics wore concentrated Before Kennedy's election membership in the Catholic Church had been generally con sidered a political handicap for anyone seeking the presidency But Kennedy carried most of the traditional Protestant South as well as the big northern states with large Catholic populations Sn Johnson liis running mae was a member lhe Christian Church Kennedy stressed several that American prestige abroad had slipped dangerous ly that lhe margin of military superiority was narrow ing that its economic growth at home and its image abroad needed revitalizing And he emphasized what he termed tlie need for a dynamic America America on the move He talked of new frontiers His cause was helped consid erably by appearances on tele vision in a series of four with his Republican rival who until that time had been much more jclcarly estab lished in tlie public conscious ness Confident Candidate The millions of television viewers saw the image of a young vigorous candidate poised cool highly informed quick on his feet and above all posessed of a reassuring self confidence When critics made an issue of his youth Kennedy retorted that the new problems of a new age required youth and vigor to deal with them Kennedy was so young when lie first went Io Congress that he frequently was mistaken for a pageboy Even as a fresh man senator lie once had a similar expricnce As he started to board the miniature subway car which runs between tlie Senate Office Building andthe Capitol a guard bawled at him: 'Stand back! Wait till tlie Senators are seated Kennedy waited Kennedy was boyishly liand somc carrying a slim 175 pounds on his 6 foof frame topped by a shock of unruly chestnut hair that was almost a trademark He had a blue eyed open faced look a friendly smile and a studied carelessness in dress and demeanor I le talked with conviction usually in machine gun staccato His World War II record and his authorship of a best selling book "Profiles in added to his stature This book which was awarded tlie 1957 Pulitzer Prize for bi ography dealt with decisive la ments in tlie lives of selected Amrican public figures some well known some obscure He wrote it in longhand while re covering from dangerous spinal operations In 1910 he wrote "Why Eng land an analysis of Eng land's attitude before the start of tlie war At that time he Was only 23 years old father served as ambassador to Britain just prior to and during the early part of the war ather Son Differ He vigorously opposed the United States entry into the conflict unless tliis country was attacked He also was against passage of tlie Lend Lease Bill to provide supplies to Britain and lie denied the argument ex pressed in some quarters that "England is fighting our As a result of his stand tlie elder Kennedy was tagged with an Isolationist label He was also a controversial political figure A rcift developed between him and President ranklin Roosevelt When John Kennedy launelied his Senate career his father said he was "tn complete dis agreement" with him on foreign policy "I possibly have a worse argument with anyone about foreign policy than I have had with my he said The former ambassador said in a speech in 1952 that he was an isolationist "because I think the kind of help giving (foreign countries) has produed anything like the re sults it was supposed to pro duce Young Kennedy was an out standing advocate of interna tionalism and strongly support ed aid to Europe after World War II It was in conflict that he distinguished himself as a junior grade naval lieutenant In com mand of a PT boat in Blackett Strait off lhe enemy infested Solomon Islands Early Monday morning Aug 2 1943 a Japanese destroyer appeared suddenly out of the darkness and sliced the patrol boat diagonally in two "It happened so fast there a chance to do a the young skipper said later "The destroyr hit our starboard forward gun station and sliced right through I was in the cock pit I looked up and saw a red glow and streamlined stacks Our tanks were ripped open and gas was flaming on tlie water about 20 yards He remembered later think ing at the moment the destroy er hit "this is how it feels to le Two of the crew wore lost Waco Is Shocked TTcarl Brokeii Over Disaster Mrs Arthur Schwartz 3203 Herring Avenue president Waco Council of Jewish Women: am heart broken I feel as grieved as if it wore a member of my family It is a great loss to the nation" Mrs 11 Carter Eubank Jr Bruceville civic leader: "The news made me physically ill 1o think that such as this could happen in our Mrs Glee Tate executive secretary YWCA: "I am shock ed The death is a great loss nationally and in Mrs Hubert Lee 1021 Lawrence Drive president Altrusa Club: "I am shocked It will have a great effect on the world in Mrs John Strauss of Robinson civic leader in rural circles and officer in Rural Garden Club: wept that any human being should do that to a fellow man especially the president He was a courageus man and a gentle Mrs Janies Wright 2929 Parrott Avenue president of Texas Retired As sociation: cried when I heard the dreadful news I loved him and I have heard all his talks and had heard a talk he and John Garner had Garner wished him good health and many years Mrs William If Curtin 1331 Parkdale Avenue president Waco ederation of Women's Clubs: "It is hard to believe It is terrible Kennedy his back badly wrenched and three ot his men were on the still floating for ward half of the torpedo boat Six othrs were scattered about in the water in their life jackets An operation tn 1945 was par formed to relieve the pressure of nerve fiberi on hie aplne While preparing to make his first race for the Senate in 1952 Kennedy suffered a renewal of Reactions Recorded the re "Mrs Zelda razier who was the rescue of leai levs so sure for the Beard attorney with tlie Bernard Rapoport of Aiuerl Jr futile when the are so in the White found out for tours to go a city of the a shock a great disgrace director said "I Robert thing and Clarence Lewallen sporting goods "I couldn't be lieve it Everybody in the store was very shocked Everybody has been very quiet and saying what a shame it is and ask ing will the country act Is so definitive and loss is so irreparable" "Mrs William Noonan nnl were talking when we heard the news Cold chills went all over us We were so disturbed we can hardly think" Mrs Grady Stidham of 3841 Austin Avenue Key "It was a shock to me You could tell how it affected people every body had a different look they were all looking down" The young skipper worked for 45 minutes Io tow his seriously burned engineer to the bow half It took throe hours to col lect all of the men Allah Conant: "1 agree with many of his policies but it was a horrible thing to shoot "I'm sorry that anything like that can happen in this country I understand anyone do ing anything like that trag ic" Mrs George Hutson of 2901 Sanger new president of Re publican Club of Mc Lennan County Curtis llate "An awful thing Texas will never live it down" most emotion now Is one of sympathy for his Jack JJpps Teague: "An aw ful thing a horrible thing Texas will never live it "We believe It even when we heard over the radio of Kennedy's says Miss Ann Marshall Baylor dean of women "We kept thinking it must be a mistake Our upper We believe that it could be anything but a joke not a joke We can only John Tiullmv: a bad way to get rid of a Mrs Downing of 451 Santa president of Woodway Garden Club said an aw ful how terrible for Tex Ed cashier: "I like to see tilings like this hap pen It isn't good for the coun Scott: "A terrible terrible that it hap "I'm Just so very very sorry My heart goes out 1o Mrs Ken nedy" Mrs Villa Reneau of 2118 Trice Avenue were so busy that she never succeeded in talking to him Louis acial cafe operator: "I think just close up and go home I feel so bad" Here are more reactions of Wacoans Interviewed riday shortly after the assassination ot President John Kennedy: "Waco Council for Retarded Children Is deeply grieved over the death We have lost a very dear friend" says "My first thought is that this is poor sort ot world leader says Dr Ralph Lynn cf 1624 South Ninth Street mem ber of the Baylor University history department faculty who has conducted student abroad "I'm ashamed abroad again Dallas as is over and done Carl Mason lawyer: "The most terrible thing that ever happened I'm convinced it was carefully planned" Mrs Trice career wom an and garden club leader said It is incredible and tragedy as well as a to Texas" Don Parsons typewriter "I think It is a rible thing All of us are very much moved by It I know of anything that could be worse" i( Couiancbe: find a disgrace" bard to said Ira Conner head football coach at University High School still hard to believe" Valter Tnriily: "That the way to get rid of a President If you don't like what he does you can vote against him It is terrible to kill him" Mrs Trances Slone of Sanger Avenue associate of Braswell and Davis Company: first thought was to try to comfort my daughter who was weeping I had a feeling of deep regret for the nation and thought too what a special tragedy for Texas Ben Young head football coach al La Vega Career High School said when he heard of tlie death "It was like someone stuck a knife in me it was such a shock It was a shock to tlie boys (Car a terrible said Wayne Gardner head football coach at Waco High School just know I haven't come to realize what happened I was in Eurojie when President Roose velt died hard to change in mid stream but we have to look forward He certainly had been a courageous Carl athletic of the Waco schools believe it at first We were just numb so hard to believe such a tragedy just just hard to analyze the thing behind John King 'A shame "7 Ills Is a horrible tiling (or the state of Texas" says Mrs Bertha Weir of 1728 Live Oak first vice president of Waco Business and Professional Wom en's Club in such a quiver I even think Jack head football coach at Richfield High School said: unbelievable to me I imagine something like that happening I still be lieve it" Swam for Island The watertight bulkheads kept the bow of tne PT boat afloat and on this tlie survivors drift ed About 2 Kennedy de cided to abandon Hie bow sec tion which was about to sink and try to reach a small Island three miles away He swam to it towing one man by holding in his teeth the straps from 1he life belt The other clung to a plank and swam in a group It took about five hours to reach land Two days later the men had eaten all the coconuts on the two trees Then they swam to a larger Island where there were plenty Tliis island was close by the cone mountained Japanese base of Kolombangara or three successive nights Kennedy once a backstroke on tlie Harvard swimming team put on a lifebelt and swam far out to try to signal another PT boat But none came into view On Thursday afternoon two friendly natives found the group Kennedy scratched a note on a coconut shell and asked them to take it to his PT boat base at Rcndova One of the natives dropped off at the island of Gomu where an Australian Arthur Reginald Evans was stationed as a mem ber of tlie Australian Coast Watching Service that kept tabs on Japanese ship and plane movements Ho delivered the note to Evans who sent other land They arrived on Saturday uciuvcs to Kennedy's little is night The future President rode in a native canoe hidden beneath coconut leaves to meet Evans and arrange for his crew Kennedy was House when lie sure the identity of tlie Austral ian officer and invited him to Washington for a visit When the two met (here Evans took a look at Kennedy and said "He looks very dif ferent certainly better The last time tlie two men had seen each other Kennedy wore only fatigue pants chopped off 1o shorts and had just climbed from beneath the pile of coconut leaves in the canoe Thai was 18 years earlier Mrs II Bratton 2133 Rose wood Avenue trustee Greater Waco Council of Safety: "It is terrible for our Mrs Ruth Weathers cafe cashier: "I hate to have it happen in A Elkins: "'t he most hor rible thing that ever happened Texas get over it for 100 ears if it ever gets over "I made a watercolor paint ing of President Kennedy from a cover photograph of him that Look Magazine savs Mrs ft to to 1916 After winning reelection twice to the House of Representatives he ran for the Senate in 3952 and defeated Senator Lodge He won by 70000 votes de spite tlie fact that Eisenhower the Republican presidential can didate swept normally Demo cratic Massachusetts by 210000 in that GOP landslide year Even 1he Democratic had considered Lodge unbeat able bodge himself was he was safe that lie devoted much of his energies 1o Eisen hower When he started looking after his own campaign he found Kennedy had a higly ef ficient organization He lost and later on Presi dent Eisenhower annointed bom in 1957 there was a can Life Insurance Co said Sandy Hendrick president of Baylor Young Republicans Club made this statement club "The assassination American President is ing and tragic event Our sym pathy is extended to Mrs Ken nedy and her family Words are inadequate at a time such as "1 can hardly talk about It ter I'm so stunned and shocked" Mrs Luke Bolin of 6500 ish Pond Road the pain Later this became more pronounced He bought a rocking chair and Installed a couch in his office On October ot 1954 he decided on another operation This time doctors performed a spinal fu sion operation In which bones in the affected area were fused with the help of an Inserted Mrs II Martinsen of 3820 metal plate An infection devel Parkwood president have oped and Kennedy lay near indicated tliis in a telegram we death for a while He spent have sent to his family He has eight months In convalescence been a champion of the cause but failed to recover completely for retarded children" Another operation was per formed in 3955 to remove the Mrs Ze(la razier who was metal plate to which the infee to play my accompaniment had turn apparently was related colne from Hillsboro and Lon In the spring of 1961 Pres! nie Thomas of 1he school faculty dent Kennedy strained his back vvas going to take us to Austin when he tossed several spade when the news says 1 I I i a 9 tf A 1 Miuilcomf "Wlwthcr you agree with a man or not football players) "I was shocked just as ev eryone else was said Ed Knip per baseball coach at Richfield High Sehoil "Even though you didn't agree with his political views it's certainly a shock to learn that the the President had been assassinated doubly concerned that it happened in our "I have bion against the Ki nedy administration the whole way says Dub Wright of 1515 South Ninth Sljeet Bay lor senior "but this is sicken ing I think it is the most use less thiug that has ever been dune It has hurt the in "I bad a letter today from my son Bill from Washington" said Mrs Roy Boiles of 3916 Richfield crying as she talked "He said he'd attended the ceremony at Arlington Cemetery Nov 11 where Kennedy laid a wreath on the grave of the Un known Soldier He got movies of Kennedy and his son My United Nations political stock was enhanced further when he won reelection in 1958 by the largest plurality ever piled up for a Senate seat in almost 900000 In 1953 Kennedy and Miss Jacqueline Lee Bouvier were married in St Catholic Church at Newport RI Arch (aw fjrm jjp(1rd Kultgen and bishop Richard Cushing ofjarj an( staunch Democrat Boston officiated and read ajsaj(i: an unbelievable trag special message of blessing from ety jt seenls the Pope A daughter Caro line Bouvier was Three years later son John Medals Awarded Lieutenant Kennedy was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps medals and the Purple Heart One of his brothers Joseph Jr a Navy pilot was killed in action in Europe in 1911 A month later the husband of ft 1 1 1A I 11 1 rt U11L UL Hid blotulb) I xc Illi VL 11 ullUiUtlll lov 111 KJ vi df jJvJJI 1 (Lu in action in rance He was the Lodge Ambassador to the Marquess of Hartington a cap tain in the Coldstream Guards Lady Hartington herself met tragic death in the spring of 1948 along with three others in the crash of a plane in rance or most of his adult years Kennedy was plagued by back troubles These started with an injury he suffered while playing foot ball during his sophomore year at Haibard Then came a spinal injury in the South Pacific ac tion Kennedy underwent three operations one so serious that he was administered the last I rites of Ute Catholic Church fulls of dirt at a ceremonial tree Mrs Doores Donaldson coun planting in Ottawa Canada selor at Wiley Junior Though in pain Kennedy rushed School and who was to uff to Europe for a series of con )lave been vocal soloist at the ei cnees with other world lead dinner fur President Kennedy hi crs After his return he had to Austin riday evening "We hobble aiound on crutches for awcle going to stop by Temple time This trouble was reported an(j (akc niv mother with us nut tu uu cuiuiruieu wiui ms otliers Brace Necessary The President wore a corset like brace for liis other back in juries and had a quarter inch lift in the heel of his left shoe to compensate for a slight dif ference in the length of his legs He slept with a board under liis mattress Born in Brookline Mass May 29 1917 Kennedy received liis bachelor of science degree grandson Scott 5 was so happy nnn laude from Harvard injto go with him and so pleased 1910 and then studied at tlieito see tlie Kennedys He laiint Lundon Schoo) of Economics cd his sister Kathy 9 because His lather set up a million she bad to be in school and dollar trust fund for each of go" Bill Boiles is a his nine children when they master sergeant in the Penta were in early childhood Tlie gon at Washington His mother Kennedy wealth was amassed tried all day to telephone him from such widely diversified in after his totter came and news terests as banking liquor nio death vvas broad tion pictures theaters but lines to Washington Street and real estate Once when questioned aoubt bis wealth John Kennedy conceded drily: "He has some John Kennedy entered politics al the age of 29 when he was a rt! ntE got no right to kill Tu'nni Cirnni 0 0 value it more than ever now! Tliis terrible tragedy is a shock to the nation We have lost a great leader and a man of vi i to' 1 I i 1 flfl 3 Im fl i we fr Mr 111 liidii li hirflcTiMWIlwr A I rRBH ths' flBPEMi fllfllrlHA BMnL jBrM'' A 1 13 1 't'to jflz vwfll I toBfl THfl wfl 4 fl WiW 1 fhhl fJflTjW Jfl HAPPY MOMENTS for the late President are mirrored in three of these four photographs with his children At left President Kennedy and John Jr leave Veterans' Day ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery Nov 11z the chief executive obviously enjoying his son's antics on the way to the presidential limousine John Jr will be 3 Monday Al right Kennedy helps daughter Caroline onto a plane at Hyannis Port along with a giant size Raggedy Ann doll during the 1960 election campaign At far right Kennedy and Caroline are near the Otis Air orce Base hospital cn their way to visit Mrs Kennedy shortly after lhe death of prematurely born Patrick Bouvier Kennedy last August Caroline will be 6 Wednesday (UPI Tele photo).