THE
NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 140
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1963
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Accused Assassination Suspect
Shot Down In Front of Newsmen
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DALLAS UP1 — Night club own- ■
cr Jack Ruby — accused of mur
dering the suspect in the Kennedy
assassination—is being held under
extraordinary security precautions.
He was taken from the city to the
county jail in Dallas today—with- j
out any notice given in advance. !
It was during a similar transfer
yesterday that Ruby shot Oswald
in front of newsmen, police offi
cers and a nationwide television
audience.
Ruby shot suspect Lee Oswald to
death yesterday at Dallas City
Hall in a swift, savage reprisal for
the Kennedy murder. Police Ser
geant M. O. Rogers stated Ruby’s
belt and shoes have been taken
away from him. His case is ex
pected to go to a grand jury soon.
District Attorney Henry Wade
in Dallas stated today that a Dal
las city map with “X”-marks and
a line drawn on it which corres
ponds to the path of the bullet
that killed President Kennedy was
found in Lee Oswald’s room.
Wade said fingerprints of Os
wald, the slain Marxist accused
of the assassination, also were
found on the foreign-made rifle
which felled the President.
The Dallas Chief of Police, Jesse
Curry, said today his department
will make public the entire file on
Let1 Oswald — unless federal
authorities forbid them to do so.
The chief of police stated the
file on Oswald can and should
become public information. He
stated the information will be
made public when his department’s
investigation of the Oswald case
is completed. He could not say
when that will be.
Last night. District Attorney
Wade released what he said was
a complete summary of the evi
dence against Oswald. This in
cluded information on fingerprints
on the gun which shot President
Kennedy.
The Moscow correspondent of a
Milan, Italy, newspaper (Corriere
Della Sera> reported today he had
met Lee Oswald in Moscow and
heard him boast: “I am the young
est Marxist in all the United
States.”
The correspondent, Vero Roberti,
stated he met Oswald in the hall
of the old Metropol Hotel early in
November, 1959. He quotes Oswald
as saying:
“I realize capitalism is fading.
I realized it a few years ago. Now
I am determined to stay here in
Russia for good.”
Roberti said he had heard about
Oswald from American newsmen
because Oswald was regarded as a
sort of “circus freak” when he ar
rived in Moscow as one of the first
Americans reported wanting to ob
tain Soviet citizenship. Roberti
said:
“I asked him if some personal
misadventure had driven him to
the decision. But Oswald replied
‘No, I am a Marxist. I am the
youngest Marxist in all the United
States.’ ”
Oswald was wearing a khaki
colored coat and Roberti asked if
it was a memento of his life in the
army. He said Oswald replied:
“No, I bought it before my de
parture (from the United States).
My service is full of ugly recol
lections. They treated me in the
worst way.”
Overseas, much of the Commu
nist press is saying that Oswald,
I known for Communist leanings,
: may have been murdered to hide
a right-wing conspiracy which, the
Reds insist, probably actually was
i behind the Kennedy assassination.
! Even some non-Communist observ
er are asking how come anyone
managed to murder Oswald. A
; special correspondent for the Lon
■ don Daily Telegraph, Stephen Bar
1 ber. cabled from Dallas that pre
cautions at police headquarters in
the Texas city were extraordinar
j ily lax.
In Dallas, funeral services were
held today for Patroman J. D. Tip
pit, killed, witnesses say, by Os
wald when he tried to question
him before Oswald’s capture in a
theater.
Oswald was carried out the back
door of an undertaker’s parlor in
a wooden coffin covered with grey
cloth.
He has been buried in Fort
Worth, Tex.
Eternal Flame
WASHINGTON LP — An eternal
flame wil burn at the head of the
grave of John F. Kennedy.
At the close of the funeral serv
ice today, his widow lighted the
torch, helped by the late Presi
dent’s brothers, Atty. Gen. Robert
Kennedy and Sen. Edward Ken
nedy.
Army Engineers said the flame
was requested by the family, and
is intended to bum night and day
forever in memory of the assassi
nated President.
It is fueled by propane, as is the
eternal torch burning at the Ar
lington Memorial of a nearby hill
top, site of the Tomb of the Un
knowns.
MILLIONS BID FAREWELL
TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY
By The Associated Press
W/ASHINGTON — Scores of thousands of humble Americans joined John F. Kennedy’s grieving
” family, kings, princes and prime ministers this morning in the last farewell to the assassi
nated President.
Hours hefore the procession began from the capitol to the White House and St. Matthews
Roman Catholic Cathedral for funeral rites, there was a mass of humanity packed about the capitol
grounds and along the streets.
Some had been there all night
long. Other thousands came in the
early dawn — families huddled
with children and blankets.
Through the night, other thous
ands had walked through the Cap
itol to see the l'lag-draped casket
and pay last respects to the fallen
President. Police estimated the
total was around 240,000.
At least 2,000 were waiting in
line, hoping to get in, when the
doors were closed to the public
at 8:30 a.m.
• As the hour approached for the
President’s body to leave the Cap
itol, the rotunda filled with mem
bers of Congress, Senators, Gover
nors of states, and other high
officials.
Also attending were one of the
greatest gatherings of statesmen
the world has ever seen. They
came from 53 countries and in
cluded 26 heads of state or gov
ernment.
Towering above them all was
the President of France, Charles
De Gaulle, in his olive drab uni
form.
There was Prince Philip of Bri
tain, the husband of Queen Eliza
beth, and Queen Frcderika of
Greece and all the many others
who had come from thousands of
miles away.
A few Congressmen approached
the casket briefly to pay their
respects.
Except for a subdued murmer
of conversation there was silence
under the high dome.
Bright sunlight pierced the win
dows high up on the dome and
cast splashes of light on the north
wall.
It was a beautiful fall day,
sharp and cear. The temperature
at 10 a.m. was 40.
Members of the Senate filed into
the rotunda shortly before 10 a.m.
Members of the House of Repre
sentatives came too.
After filing past the bier, most
of them took up stations around
the walls.
Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, veiled
and dressed in black, came out of
the north portico of the White
House at 10:25 aan. and entered j
a limousine for the drive to the
capital.
She was escorted by the slain
President’s brother, Attorney Gen
eral Robert Kennedy. A few steps
behind came Senator Edward Ken
nedy, the other brother of the
President.
Mrs. Kennedy was so heavily
veiled that her face could not be
clearly seen.
The fleet of limousines pro
ceeded slowly up Pennsylvania
Avenue to the Capitol between
ranks of military guards.
The crowds lining both sides of
the street were silent.
The broad avenue was empty of
j traffic except for the White House
cars.
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The White House party turned
from Independence Avenue into the
Capitol Plaza, stopping at the cen
ter of the Capitol groups at 10:39
a.m.
Inside, ten military pallbearers
had taken positions around the
casket, and a flag bearer and
honor guard were stationed just '
i
inside the east entrance. In the
small lobby outside the rotunda a
group of clergymen stood in their
clerical garb.
Mrs. Kennedy stepped out of
her car and walked up the steps
of the Capitol. The Attorney Gen
eral was on one side and Senator
Kennedy on the other.
They walked to where the late
President’s body lay and knelt by
the casket.
There was silence in the rotunda
as they arose and Mrs. Kennedy
and the late President’s two broth
ers slowly backed away, then
turned with Robert Kennedy hold
ing Mrs. Kennedy’s hand.
They took a last lingering look,
before turning away.
An honor guard stood stiffly at
attention by the casket.
The slain President's flag-draped
casket was slipped slowly from the
catafalque.
The honor guard carried the cas
ket from its resting place at
10:42 a.m.
A sailor, bearing the President’s
flag, walked behind the casket.
Guards outside the door came to
salute as the casket was borne out
the door and down the steps. An
officer called “attention,” a salute
was fired and a band broke into
“Hail To The Chief.”
The huge crowd in the Capitol
Plaza was silent and stood almost
motionless.
A U.S. Coast Guard Academy
band gave the four ruffles of
muffled drums and the other musi
cal tributes.
Outside the same six white
horses harnessed to the same
black caisson that brought the cas
ket to the Capitol yesterday was
waiting to receive the casket.
As the casket was placed on the
caisson for the final journey, Mrs.
Kennedy leaned over and whis
pered to little John Junior. The
boy—who is three years old today
— raised his hand and saluted his
father.
As the slow procession began,
the bell of the Cathedral began to
toll. Muffled drums beat a cadence.
President Kennedy’s body was
borne past mourning thousands to
its final resting place in the green
hills of Arlington Cemetery.
Altogether more than one mil
lion persons must have seen the
flag-draped casket as it moved
from the Capitol to the White
House, then to the Cathedral for
services and finally on to Arling
ton Cemetery.
Mrs. Kennedy and the other
mourners rode in limousines the
three miles to the cemetery and
the grave site which looks out over
the Potomac River to the Lincoln
Memorial.
From St. Matthew’s, the funeral
procession wound down to the
Lincoln Memorial, around it and
across Memorial Bridge.
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