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LEE HARVEY OSWALD, 24, a pro-Castro Mar
ist and former U. S. Marine, has been formally
charged with the murder of President John F.
Kennedy. Oswald allegedly shot Kennedy as he
drove in a motorcade in Dallas, Tex. Friday af
ternoon. Dallas police say they have the evi
dence, believed to be a film of the man doing
the shooting, to convict Oswald.
UPI Telephotos Courtesy WTVD
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alias Police S ay Oswald
C ase Is Already C onclusive
DALLAS .(UPD Dallas police
said flatly Saturday that Lee
Harvey Oswald, a pro - Castro
Marxist and former U. S. - Ma
rine, assassinated President Ken
nedy and they have the evidence
to prove it. They said he had
no accomplices.
"This case is cinch," said hom
icide Chief Capt. Will Fritz, one
of the most respected police of
ficers in Texas.
"The man killed President
Kennedy. We are convinced
without any doubt he did the
killing," Fritz said.
Fritz said he could not disclose
the evidence on which he based
his statement. Oswald, 24, so far
has stubbornly denied any con
nection with the assassination.
Oswald refused Saturday to
take a lie detector test after pa
raffin tests showed gunpowder
traces on both his bands, indi
cating he recently had fired a
rifle the type of weapon used
to kill the President Friday.
The case was expected to go to
a grand jury Wednesday, Nov.
27th or Monday, Dec. 2nd.
"There were no accomplices,"
Fritz said, however.
Dallas County Dist. Atty. Hen
ry Wade said' the assassination
trial of the 24-year-old . Marine
Corps reject probably would be
held in January.- -
Wade, with a record of 24 con
victions in 24 capital cases, said
he would try the Oswald case
himself.
Should Oswald not be convict
ed and sentenced to death by
electrocution, he then would be
tried for the slaying of a Dallas
policeman who sought to arrest
him after the assassination,
Wade said.
Wade was more cautious in his
appraisal of the state's case than
Fritz.
"There is no such thing as a
cinch. I do believe we have a
good case," Wade said.
Police had the Italian-made
sniperscope rifle used in the slay
ings. They knew from Oswald's
Russian wife that he owned such
a gun. She saw it the night be
fore the assassination. He bought
it in New Orleans, she said.
As Oswald called for a New
York Lawyer who has been ac
cused of Communist party mem
bership, Wade said he would not
disclose the evidence because:
"We have got to get a jury
who doesn't know wtiat evidence
we have."
Although he agreed with Capt.
Fritz that there was no evidence
connecting anyone else to Os
wald, Wade said, "Our mind is
open."
Lee A. Oswald, accused slayer
of President Kennedy, once
threatened to "employ all
means" to right a wrong he said
he had been done him in mili
tary service. '
Oswald made the threat in a
letter to Texas Gov. John B. Con
nally Jr., who was wounded
when the President was killed. At
the time he wrote the letter Os
wald thought Connally still was
Secretary of the Navy.
It referred to the fact that Os
wald received a dishonorable dis
charge from the Marine Corps.
"I shall employ all means to
right this gross mistake or in
justice to a bona fide U. S. citi
zen and ex-serviceman," the let
ter said.
"The U. S. government has no
charges or complaints against
me. I ask you to look into this
cas eand take the necessary steps
to repair the damage done to me
and my family."
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Gov. Sanf ord To Pay Homage
At President's Rites Monday
RALEIGH ( UPI ) North Caro- ,
lina Gov. Terry Sanford left his
grieving state Saturday to pay
homage from himself and over !
four million residents of the state s
before the bier of the late Presi
dent Kennedy.
Before he left, Sanford urged
all businesses to close during the
hour of the funeral Monday to
allow all North Carolinians to
participate in the national mourn
ing. His request was expected
to be complied with, nearly un
animously. "The valiant soldier of free
dom is dead," Sanford said. "All
mankind is less."
Sanford was joined in his plea
for an hour of quiet and medita
tion by the N. C. Merchants As
sociation, whose president John
H. Church, asked the state's 90,
000 retail firms to close for one
hour beginning at noon Monday.
The cancellation of work from
some of the state's industrial
concerns began flowing in even
before the request by Sanford,
and North Carolinians cancelled
or postponed everything from
plays to racial demonstrations,
dances to court sessions, con
certs to Christmas parades.
Sports events scheduled for
Saturday in the state were post
poned, and the Davidson-Wolford
and Appalachian-East Tennessee
football games were cancelled,
never to be played. Postponed
were games between Duke and
North Carolina and Ft. Bragg
and Ft. Eustus, Va.
Gov. Donald Russell will carry
the deep sympathy of all South
Carolina to the late President's
funeral Monday.
The Governor and state. Sen.
'Edgar" AT Brown' of ' Barnwell
were scheduled to leave for the
services Sunday to represent the
state in mourning the dead Presi
dent.
Russell ordered that all South
Carolina , State offices remain
closed Monday and flags draped
at half-staff. He extended an
order made Friday to close the
offices Saturday.
The state's two major institu
tions of higher learning have an
nounced suspension of classes
Monday to pay tribute to Presi
dent Kennedy.
Noted Writer
Aldous Huxley
Dead At 69
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Novelist
Aldous Auxley, famed for his
satirical vision of a "brave new
world'' and a member of the emi
nent British family of letters and
sciences, died Friday of cancer.
He was 69.
Huxley died at his home and
private funeral services were
conducted Saturday in Los Ange
les. Huxley was the son of Leonard
Huxley and grandson of renown
ed biologist Thomas Huxley,
credited with popularizing the
evolutionary theories of Charles
Darwin. He was the brother of
Julian Huxley, noted biologist
and writer and grand-nephew of
poet-essayist Matthew Arnold.
Author of more than 20 books,
Huxley was noted primarily as a
philosophical novelist. He used
characters largely to represent
his far-ranging ideas in his fic
tion works, which were sprinkled
with subtle wit and incisive satire.
I Game Rescheduled I
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UNC and Duke officials reconsidered late yester
day and now have decided to hold the football game
between the two universities on Thanksgiving, Nov.
28, -at 2:00 p.m. '
The game, originally scheduled for yesterday at
Duke Stadium, was first postponed until next Satur-
day due to the tragic death of President John Ken
nedy. But yesterday, at the request of student leaders
of the two schools, officials met and agreed to hold
the game on Thursday.
It was announced that the change was made in
order to make it more convenient for students to at
tend. The feeling was students would rather stay over
an extra day, see the game, then go home, rather
than go home, come back for the game on the 30th,
and then perhaps go home again.
The 50th renewal of the ancient battle is a key one
for the teams, in that the winner will tie North Caro
lina State for the ACC Championship. The Wolfpack
clinched a tie for the title Friday night with a 42-0
victory over Wake Forest. If UNC and Duke, both 5-1,
tie, State will get the crown outright with a 6-1 mark.
The UNC ticket office has announced that any de
sired s refunds will be honored, and for students to in
Sure .: abut extra tickets .made available by. refunds
at the office from Monday morning to Wednesday
noon.
A freshman game between Duke and Maryland has
also been scheduled for Thanksgiving Day at Duke
Stadium. The frosh teams are expected to play at
9:45 a.m. for the benefit of the Cerebral Palsy fund.
It is an annual contest, which, in the past, has been
played by the frosh teams of UNC and Duke.
OTHER CHANGES
Campus-wide activities, which came to an imme
diate halt Friday afternoon, were almost non-existent
yesterday as students slowly went about their busi
ness. As a tribute to the late President Kennedy, commander-in-chief
of the armed forces, both the campus
Naval and Air Force units will be in uniform through
Wednesday afternoon.
The Di-Phi Society Friday night unanimously
' adopted a resolution expressing the Society's deepest
sympathy to the John F. Kennedy family and declar
ing its united support and encouragement to Presi
dent Lyndon B. Johnson.
More than 200 students in the Ehringhaus area
Saturday night signed a letter extending their sym
pathy to Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy. The letter said in
part, "being students we were aware of Mr. Kennedy's
struggle for universal and domestic peace and in
tegrity; he will remain a challenging example to those
who seek to better their world."
Campus Service
In Memorial Hall
11, 12 A.M. Classes Cancelled Monday
Chapel Hill will join communi
ties throughout the nation and
the world Monday in observing a
"national day of mourning" for
President John F. Kennedy.
A special inter-faith memorial
service honoring the late presi
dent will be conducted Monday
morning at 11:15 a.m. in Mem
orial Hall by the Campus Chap
lain's Assn.
The brief service is expected
to include prayers, hymns and
scripture readings by chaplains
of campus religious groups.
Classes will be dismissed from
11 a.m. until 1 p.m.. Chancellor
William B. Aycock announced
yesterday.
A requiem mass will be held
at noon Monday at the Catholic
Student Center on Pittsboro St.,
according to Rev. Father Robert
L. Wilken.
In one of his first official acts
as President, Lyndon B. Johnson
proclaimed Monday as a national
day of mourning for his "great
and good" predecessor and urged
the American people to assemble
in churches for prayer.
Elsewhere yesterday, the
humble and the mighty joined
a grieving widow and family Sat
urday in mourning the death of
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who
presumably will be given a hero's
burial Monday in Arlington Na
tional Cemetery.
It was understood that arrange
ments were under way for an
Arlington burial following a pon
tificial requiem mass at noon.
Only one other president, William
Howard Taft, is buried in Arling
ton, shrine of the nation's heroes.
As leaders of the world con
verged on the capital trs pay hom
age, hundreds of people ranging
from the family to the late Pres
ident's most bitter political foes
filed slowly past his bier in the
black draped East Room of the
White House.
First came Mrs. Jacqueline
Kennedy, widowed by a sniper's
bullet at 34, and members of the
immediate family. Then Presi
dent Johnson and his wife, ac
companied by former President
Dwight D. Eisenhower and after
wards high government officials.
Among them were two of the
late president's most intense civil
rights opponents, Govs. Ross
Barnett of Mississippi and George
C. Wallace of Alabama.
Wallace said the death of the
man whose policies he denounced
"transcends all politics."
Limousine after limousine mov
ed slowly up the White House
driveway bringing such other
dignitaries as Gov. and Mrs. Nel
son Rockefeller of New York,
Gov. Edmund G. Brown of Cali
fornia and former President Har
ry Truman.
Truman, who upon his arrival
in the capital denounced the
"good for nothing" Kennedy as
sassin, talked with Mrs. Kennedy
for 15 minutes in the White
House living quarters.
Despite a White House request
that Americans express their
condolences with gifts to charity,
baskets of flowers kept arriving
at the executive mansion until a
spare room had to be set aside
for tliem.
In issuing his proclamation of
mourning. President Johnson in
vited "the people of the world
who share our grief to join us
in this day of mourning and re
dedication." He earnestly urged the Ameri
can people to assemble in the na
tion's churches, "there to bow
down in submission to the will
of Almighty God, and to pay their
homage of love and reverence to
the memory of a great and good
man."
All federal offices will be clos
ed. Even before issuance of the
proclamation business establish
ments across the nation signalled
their intent to be darkened dur
ing the day.
The casket with the late presi
dent's body, was closed as it lay
in the somber east room of the
White House.
And, according to White House
officials, was to remain so
throughout all services.
At 10:30 a.m., with only the
family and close friends present
a Mass was said in the East
Room by the Rev. John J. Cav
anaugh, former president of the
University of Notre Dame and
a long-time friend of the Kenne
dys. The Mass was attended by
Mrs. Kennedy and her children,
Caroline and John, who were told
Friday night that an assassin's
bullets had snuffed out the life
of their father.
Today the body will be tan to
the rotunda of the Capitol where
it will lie in state for some 21
hours for public viewing. Thous
ands were expected to file past.
But some chose not to wait to
pay respects.
In Palm Beach, Fla., a small
blond boy, followed by two little
girls plucked two hibiscus blos
soms from bushes surrounding
the resort home of the slain
President's father, Joseph P.
Kennedy, and placed them on the
front steps of the house.
In Berlin, 80,000 West Germans,
many weeping, marched in a
torchlight parade during the ear
ly morning hours.
Mayor Willy Brandt, meeting
them at city hall, asked Berlin
ers to place lighted candles in
their windows during the night.
In Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev
expressed the "indignation of the
Soviet people against the culprits
of this base crime" and dispatch
ed his deputy, Anastas Mikoyan,
for Monday's Pontificial High
Requiem Mass that will be the
official state funeral.
At those solemn ceremonies,
France will be represented by
President Charles de Gaulle,
Britain by Prince Philip and
Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas
Home, and West Germany by
i Chancellor Ludwig Erhard.
At 1 p.m. Sunday, to the muff
led cadence of a corps of drum
mers, the body in its heavy ma
hogany casket will be borne from
the White House to the Capitol
on a caisson drawn by seven
horses.
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yndon B. Johnsons A. Complicated Man
By PETER HARKNESS
In the hot and stuffy iorward
compartment of an Air Force
plane, Lyndon Baines Johnson
i took the oath of office as the
' 36th President of the United
- States.
It was 3:38 p.m. . EST, Fri-
day, November 22, 1963.
, He was born 55 years ago on
August 27, 1908, near Johnson
City, Texas. Sam Ealy Johnson,
a Texas legislator, and Rebekah
' Baines Johnson, were his par
. ents.
1 He went to public school in
! Johnson City and was graduat
ed in the spring of 1924, when
he went to work on a road-
building gang at $1 per day. He -was
a restless young man and
worked his way to California
where he worked in the Imper
ial Valley.
He later returned tc Texas
and decided- to enter college. In
1927 he enrolled in Southwest
Texas State Teahers College in
San Marcos, Texas where he
worked as a janitor, a door-to-door
salesman . and other odd
jobs to pay for his eduation.
i However, in 1923, he had to
leave college when his money
ran out. He taught for a year
at a school in Tulia, Texas, and
used his first pay check to buy
athletic equipment for under
privileged Latin American chil
dren. He returned to college in
1929, graduated in 1930 and took
another teaching job in Hous
ton, Texas.
He married Claudia Lady Bird
Taylor in 1934 after returning
home and attended night school
at Georgetown, Texas law school.
In 1937 he entered politics and
rai unopposed for Congress in
the tentn district. In 1941 he
sought the seat in the United
States Senate vacated by Sen.
Morris Sheppard and lost to
Gov. W. Lee MPappy" O'Daniel
by 1,311 votes.
Within hours after casting his
vote to declare war on Japan in
1941, the young Congressman
was in uniform. He was the first
member of Congress to enter
active duty and received the
Silver Star for gallantry in ac
tion on a flight over New
Guinea.
In 1943 he made a second at
tempt for the Senate and de
feated Gov. Coke Stevenson in
an unusually close election. Out
of one million votes cast, John
son won by 87.
As early as 1951 he began
his rise to Senate leadership. He
was unanimously elected party
whip and was praised for his
ability as a man who could get
the job done.
In 1953 he was named the
minority leader after the Demo
crats lost control of the Sen
ate by one seat. One year later,
he was re-elected to the Senate.
In 1955, after the Democrats
had regained the leadership in
the Senate, Lyndon Johnson, 46,
was named majority leader, the
youngest to ever serve in that
job.
On July 2, 1955, he suffered a
heart attack and was hospital
ized in Washington and later re
cuperated on his Texas ranch.
He returned to the Senate on
December 12.
At the 1956 Democratic Con
vention, Southern Democrats
attempted an unsuccessful drive
for the Presidential nomination.
In 1957, he was influential in
the passage of the first civil
rights bill in 75 years. One year
later he spoke before the Unit
ed Nations supporting a resolu
tion proposed by the United
States calling for peaceful ex
ploration of outer space.
In 1960 he was defeated by
John Fitzgerald Kennedy for the
Democratic Presidential nomi
nation but was picked as the
Vice-Presidential candidate.
Johnson was influential in tne
campaign in winning support for
the ticket, especially in the
South. In 1961 he took the oath
as Vice-President of the United
States following the Democratic
victory.
On Friday afternoon Johnson
suddenly became the Chief
Executive of the nation follow
ing the tragic assassination of
President Kennedy.
He assumes that office with
far greater experience than
Kennedy, Harry S. Truman,
Dwight D. Eisenhower or even
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
He has nearly three decades
of experience in Washington be
hind him in both the legislative
and executive branches of gov
ernment. He was influential in
many domestic and foreign
policy decisions under President
Kennedy.
His health appears to be good
despite the 1955 heart attack
and New York heart specialists
claim Johnson will be a "vigor
ously healthy Chief Executive."
William S. White, the colum
nist, said Johnson was "a prag
matic man and not a theorist;
an actionist and not a philoso
phical thinker."
White continued, "This man,
Lyndon Baines Johnson of
Texas, is perhaps the most com
plicated man in public life
known to this correspondent. He
known to this correspondent,
distinctly clear-eyed. He is tire
less beyond ready belief; nearly
all his waking life is spent as a
furiously functioning one-man
political organism. He is under
standing of men as individuals
and his skill ki dealing with
them must be seen in action to
be credited."
Despite assets, weaknesses or
political beliefs, Lyndon Baines
Johnson is now the President of
the United States.