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M 1111 Tic Weather Increasing cloudiness and cool. TO FAMOUS MEN ALL THE EARTH IS A SEPU LCHRE: Pericles lib Offices in Graham Memorial CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1963 Qf flf United Press International Service resident Is BuiFied. n Arlingl :on By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press International America buried John Fitzger ald Kennedy on Arlington Nation al Cemetery's green slopes Mon day, consigning his body to the land he loved and his soul to the God he worshipped. After the last rites of a funeral Mass that broke the composure of his grieving widow, the mar tyred President was borne across the Potomac River to the national shrine of honored dead. There, before the stricken fam ily -and before foreign presidents and princes, he found his final rest. An eternal light will burn at- the tomb looking out on .the Lincoln Memorial. . An estimated 800,000 hushed mourners lined the streets to pay their respects as the slain Presi dent was brought from the Capi tol to. the White House, - from there to St. . Matthews Cathedral, and at last to the . still green cemetery. joining the family and all America in its grief were kings, presidents, ministers and princes from nearly every country of the world, Communist .as well as free, from Charles de Gaulle of France to Anastas Mikoyan of Russia. At the grave site, the farewell of "taps" mourning across the Virginia countryside and the crash of rifle volleys in final sa lute climaxed a day of sounds. The sounds, above all, convinced those who had refused to believe the young President was dead..: There had been .the dirges.. . . By MICKEY BLACKWELL WASHINGTON Before the mourning eyes of the nation and much of the world, John Fitzger ald Kennedy was buried yester day in Arlington National Ceme tery. Top dignitaries or their repre sentatives from 78 nations attend ed the solemn proceedings. The slain president's body be gan its long trek to Arlington Cemetery early Sunday afternoon when it was moved from the White House to the Capitol Ro tunda, where some 250,000 people viewed the flag-draped casket. When the Rotunda was closed at 9 a.m. yesterday, over 10,000 people, many of them stayed all night outside the Capitol, were turned away. At 10 a.m. the body was moved quickly to the White House where Mrs. Kennedy and the late Presi dent's brothers, Robert and Ed ward, and a host of mourners joined in a solemn march to St. Matthew's Cathedral, where Arch bishop Francis Cardinal Cushing of Boston, a life-long friend of President Kennedy, led those gathered in a Pontifical Mass. "We pray that John Fitzgerald Kennedy may be spared all punishment and taken into para dise," Cardinal Cushing said. Following the Pontifical Mass, a long procession of automobiles bearing the bereaved family and other mourners moved slowly to ward Arlington Cemetery. The coffin was covered by an American flag, and drawn on a black caisson pulled by six grey horses. Following the caisson was a riderless horse with its stirrups inverted symbolizing the death of a fallen leader. The horse, Sadar, is the one used personally by Mrs. Kennedy. Joining in the drive to Arlington was the largest group of interna tional leaders that has ever con vened in Washington. Among them , were French President Charles DeGaulle, King Baudouin of Belgium, Emperor iir tAt 'A Haile Salassie of Ethiopia, and the prime Ministers of most of America's allies, including Brit ish Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Queen Elizabeth sent her hus band, Prince Phillip, to repre sent her. And Soviet Deputy Pre mier Anastas Mikoyan arrived yesterday morning to represent Russia. Surrounding these mourners were other mourners over three hundred thousand of them, stand ing on drugstore roofs, on the tops of buildings, peering from office windows trying to get a final look at the late President. Many of them had slept on the streets all night in the freezing Washington weather. All of these the young, the old, the big, the little; people of all races, creeds, and colors all of them lined up for miles in com mon purpose and common prayer. They had come together to shed a final tear of mourning for John Fitzgerald Kennedy. skirling of bagpipes . . . creaking caisson wheels on hushed streets, the muffled drums . . . the sad ... the cadenced march of mili tary men . . . the sobs of mourn ers. At one brief point, it became too much for the veiled Jacque line Kennedy. - She had seen her husband fall before the sniper's bullet Friday, thrice she visited his bier at the Capitol. She bore up her chil dren in . their ' grief and on foot Monday led the half-mile proces sion to the funeral Mass. It was only at the cathedral that her grief overwhelmed her in public. Upon leaving the low pontifical Mass, she suddenly bent forward as though in pain, sobbing into her handkerchief. Her composure may have been broken by her five - year - old daughter Caroline. The child be gan crying inconsolably as she followed her father's casket from the cathedral. John Jr., whose third birthday fell on this day of grief, broke into cries within the cathedral and was quickly soothed by his mother. Others wept openly or within. Under sunny, cloudless skies, but with a chill in the air, the young dead President then was taken across the river and under the trees of Arlington. There, in sonorous tones, Rich ard Cardinal Cushing of Boston, who had married "Jack" Ken nedy and his beautiful bride 10 years ago, commended his soul to God. "Let his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace," the archbishop prayed. At the Mass the Cardinal also had offered the reassuring words and promises of the faithful. "Life is not taken away . . . life is but changed." "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me, even if he die, shall live." Through the funeral hours, bells of churches of every faith were tolled. Some of the most moving mom ents of the service came when the Most Rev. Philip Hannan. in the only remarks approaching a eulogy, read from the fallen President's inaugural address and from his favorite biblical passages. From the third chapter of Ec clesiastes, Bishop Hannan read: "There is an appointed time for everything under heaven . . . a time to be born and a time (Continued on Page 3) -.x.--.--, . 0- W Ml it. L WTj v&ti.-rm CSoZzr-iM -:.v-i. THE CAISSON bearing the body of President Kennedy moves into National Cemetery in Arling ton, Virginia yesterday afternoon following a Low Pontifical Requiem Mass in Washington's St. Mat thew's Cathedral. UP I Telephoto Courtesy WTVD. TO use Jni ere riJbuite rm IC enute ciy n L c - j - ' - 4 ft - - r i . ; if If ' r J' in- 4 . , 1' WHITNEY SPEAKS TONIGHT . Norman J- Whitney, peace con sultant for the American Friends Service Committee, will answer the question, "Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: What Next?" when he speaks to an open audience here tonight. : ; Sponsored by the Wesley Foun dation and the Student Peace Union, Whitney will speak at 8 p.m. in Gerrard Hall. . STRING CONCERT SET The North Carolina String Quartet will present a program of Mozart, Prokofiev, and Bar tak in Hill Music Hall Tuesday evening at 8. The presentation is -open to the public .. Memorial Hall Services Attract Over 2,000 Here They came alone, or in groups of two or three. Silently", rever ently they ; filed into Memorial Hall. A freshman .from Chicago, a junior from Massachusetts. White and Negro, Catholic and Protestant and Jew. Bold fra ternity men with tears in their eyes, uniformed cadets and mid shipmen, a girl who lovingly touched the cross around her neck. With them came the President of the University, dozens of pro fessors, and those of lesser posts from all over the campus. Be tween them, they jammed Mem orial Hall to the rafters in a solemn tribute to a man whom most of them had come to know almost personally John Fitzger ald Kennedy, Thirty-fifth Presi dent of the United States. Thus as the world paused from its daily toil to mourn yester day, the University of North Ca rolina paused also. ". . . And may the nations see That men should brothers be, And form one family The wide world o'er. They answered the call of the President for every American to enter his chosen place of divine -worship and offer prayers for the Kennedy family and the nation, and to pay humble tribute to "a great and good man." . . . O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Be Thou our guard while life shall last, And our eternal home." Forgetting their prejudices and their differences, , they voiced their common sadness, their he(artfelt sympathy, and their youthful confidence in the future. ". . . God is our refuge and ; strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the Earth be removed, and though the moun tains be carried into the midst of the sea." : They heard themselves called upon to uphold his ideals of lib erty, and justice, and strong faith. They asked God for the strength to do so. "... From prejudice of race and color, making schism in the commonwealth; from all in equity that, causing a few to be rich and many poor, begets ill will and spoils fraternity; from loss of liberties bequeath ed us by our sires and from careless acceptance of our heritage and neglect of its re sponsibilities, Good Lord, de liver us." And then, as quickly as they had come, they went awayr Each to his own thoughts, his own faith, ; his own understanding. United still, however, by a com mon prayer I Pres. Friday Joins Mourners At Memorial Hall Oswald's Body Is Taken For Immediate Burial DALLAS (UPD The body of Lee Harvey Oswald, guarded by determined police and trained dogs, was taken from a Fort Worth funeral home Monday for immediate burial. Oswald, his lips sealed forever, took to the grave with him his motives for the assassination of President Kennedy. Paul J. Goody, director at the Miller Funeral Home where Os wald was taken, said he hoped that "nobody would be that low" as to try to mutilate the body. But the guard was there. "Even Oswald is entitled to a decent burial," he said. Oswald was placed in a hearse for the trip to Rose Hill Ceme tery and a simple graveside ser vice at 1:30 p.m., just 25 min utes before President Kennedy was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Jack Ruby, Dallas night club operator who had shown more interest in pretty showgirls than politics, shot Oswald to death be fore a national television audi ence Sunday as police brought him out of city jail cell.. . Ruby's attorney, Tom Howard, said he would plead temporary insanity for the one-time Chicago street brawler. District Attorney Henry Wade said he would try to send Ruby to the electric chair. "I will seek the death penalty for Ruby even if he pleads guilty, because shooting a handcuffed man deserves the death penalty," . Wade said. Ruby, 52, was hustled through the business district from the city jail to the county jail, a mile away just before noon Monday. He successfully made the trip that cost Oswald his life after he was rushed into a white un marked car by two detectives. It was the trip Oswald had started Sunday. Then, Ruby leaped out of a crowd of news- ( Continued on Page 3) Congress Begins Job Yet Biggest WASHINGTON . (UPD ; Con gress began picking up its' seem ingly endless 1963 legislative bur den Monday even as it joined in the nation's last tribute to Presi dent John F.. Kennedy. The full resumption of. remain ing critical business was not likely until after President John son has addressed Wednesday's joint session. Congressional ex perts hoped the new President might offer some guidance on his own sense of priorities on tax relief, civil rights and other pend ing major bills. The turn-about from shock and corrow to normal activity began Monday morning when the Sen ate Banking Committee rejected a bill that the late President op- ZOOLOGY SEMINAR Dr. Richard G. Hiskey of the University Department of Chemistry- will speak at a University Zoology seminar tomorrow at 4:45 p.m. in 105 Wilson Hall. Coffee will be served at 4:30. ring at 8 p.m. posed involving the Soviet wheat deal. By a vote of 8-7 the commit tee recommended against pas sage of the measure, but sent it to the floor. It would prohibit the govern ment from underwriting loans for the expected $250 million grain purchase by Communist bloc nations. Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield indicated earlier he would press to have the Senate itself dispose of the grain bill be fore it takes its Thankgiving holi day starting Wednesday nght. The broader problems of civil rights and taxes, barring some surprise declaration by President Johnson, were certain to be put over until the new year. Most senior lawmakers felt Congress should pass the re maining appropriation bills as quickly as possible and quit un til early January. W asJain i By GARY BLANCHARD WASHINGTON It was 2 o'clock Monday morning. We had just returned from The Capitol, where a sea of people were shivering in an icy wind, waiting to pay their final respects to the late President. In our hotel lobby the televi i sion camera was bringing the Capitol scene to us, despite the hour. The mighty had had their turn earlier, Sunday aiternoon, and would have their turn again when daylight came, and the body was removed from the Capitol, followed by the funeral at St. Matthews Cathedral, then internment in Arlington Nation jal Cemetery. But now it was the people's turn . . . people of every size and shape and color, little peo ple huddled sleeping against their fathers shoulders . . . larger people, wTapped in blank ets and other assorted cover ings, crowding close to each other in search of, warmth. The people, yes. Predomi . nantly young the teens and twenties but older too, some very old indeed, standing in the night ten and twelve abreast for block after block after block, their faces lit by the harsh glare of streetlights. Some had been there for seven bours and more already, stop ping, waiting, then moving for- gton: A Long Day pi In A 11 ao. City ward a block, only to stop and hvait again, as if eternity were the path they were traveling. Others, more fortunate, had had their turn at filing up the Capitol's thiriy-sLx steps, then through the Rotunda in fast tmoving streams, past the cata falque bearing the flag-draped body of the young American President. Others had come even closer to history. They had been there when the President's widow re turned to the Rotunda for a few brief moments about 9 o'clock Sunday night, accompanied by they President's most trusted confidante, his brother Robert, the Attorney General. Still others would never realize their ambition. They were the ones who either faint ed in the cold and waiting and were borne ..away to a nearby hospital, or were so far back in 'the human stream that the doors of the Rotunda would be closed when their turn came. But ' they waited nevertheless. Now, nearly 3 ajn., Washing ton resembled a hurricane in reverse. The city proper and its suburbs were quiet, but the eye of the emotional hurricane the Capitol bulged with tor rents of cars and buses, mov ing slowly, their headlights sil houetting the masses vhd were walking and waiting. : Downtown, past the big white house at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave nue, an intermittent stream of cars moved slowly along, their occupants noticing the closed ircn gates, the policemen scat tered around the grounds, the black velvet draped above the main entrance, the few lights at windows here and there. !Back in the Rotunda of the Capitol, the fragrance of innum able bouquets of flowers hung in the air, the Honor Guard stood stiffly at Parade Rest, and the people passed, wiping away ttcars, hushing wide-eyed chil dren, clicking cameras, shuf fling reluctantly back out into jthe night, aware that this "was the closest most of them would ever come to history. Down the mall stretching be fore the Capitol, a red light atop the Washington" Monument blinked at planes bringing digni taries from ail over the world to the center of homage, and down on a point of the city, looking out on it all, the brood ing figure of Lincoln stared out into the darkness surrounded by words about binding up the na tion's wounds. Across a watery tract nearby, the figure of Jef ferson stood, swearing eternal hostility to every form of ty ranny over the mind of man, and still the people came to watch and wait, and suddenly the tears you had thought were spent flooded forth anew, and the night was .incredibly sad.' J; t 'jfot r.f 9 if ft I ;? ...... , if" .,,;:. sfkj - 1 v sx f I I? ? I iT" I f l -ft THESE UNC STUDENTS joined with hundreds of others yesterday to offer their prayers for the Kennedy family and the nation, and to ay tribute to John F. Kennedy. They were part of a huge audi ence of all faiths which gathered in respect to the late President. -Phatos by Jim Wallace
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