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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1963
Page
1
A reflective piece by Ton Marsh cites mentors and readers recalling Pearl Harbor insights. The column weighs memory’s role in shaping perspective on war, history, and personal experience through intergenerational voices.
The Charleston Area Chamber of Commerce veteran regan retires as vice president amid optimism for Charleston’s future. Directors will vote at the Monday meeting. a successor likely takes over after the new chamber board convenes on Jan. 11.
The National Council of Churches with 40 million members launched a broad campaign for racial, religious, and economic justice. A lengthy resolution urged unity among denominations to support laws guaranteeing equal rights, voting, housing, education, work, and public accommodations and to open worship to all regardless of race. The delegates adopted a message to churches and a pronouncement on human rights calling for economic reform and renewed civic dedication.
The Charleston Gazette will carry a new AP 100 page hardcover history of President Kennedy's assassination. Delivery starts around Dec 30 at $2 per copy, order by coupon or through Newspaper Agency Corp. The book compiles color and black and white photos, timelines from the tour to Arlington, and accounts by AP byline writers who covered the four days of tragedy.
Washington reports about 500000 more jobless Americans, lifting unemployment near 4 million. Officials note no rise in unemployment payments and a generally optimistic business climate offset the jump. Total employment slipped to 169.9 million from the prior month, with nonfarm payrolls steady at 84.5 million.
Texas decides not to convene a state court of inquiry into the slaying and federal probes. Officials say continuing nationwide investigations are disrupted by a Texas court hearing, preferring FBI coordination and existing inquiries under way. Key figures include Sterling FF ree n VON, Justice Department, and Chief Justice Earl Warren.
Mrs John F Kennedy moves with her children from the White House to a rented Georgetown house. Friends and neighbors watch as personal belongings including wine toys and two pink parakeet cages go ahead. Kennedy wave from a second story window and say farewell to relatives and White House staff before departure amid Medal of Freedom ceremony.
Washington report states Kennedy receives the Medal of Freedom in a ceremony as Douglas B. Cornel notes the event details and national significance. The article mentions Prosi in association with the coverage.
Oswald widow Leona Williamson, a Fort Worth housewife, says she wants to be American and continues to grieve publicly as donations flow for Kennedy’s Medal of Freedom honors. President Johnson announces posthumous medals for Kennedy and Pope John XXIII while NATO and military spending dominate talks.
Mrs Marguerite Oswald disclosed at a 90 minute Fort Worth press conference that in 1961 she appealed directly to President Kennedy to help contact her son Lee H Oswald in the Soviet Union. She said a high ranking State Department officer arranged a conference with officials and she later received Oswalds address, the first sign he was alive since 1959. Oswald, a Marxist defector to Russia, was arrested for Kennedys assassination in Dallas and killed two days later by Jack Ruby.
Some of the honorees could not attend the ceremony and two recipients had died since Kennedy named them for the awards last July.
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