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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1963
Page
1
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President Kennedy lies in state at the White House with family and officials to view, then a public viewing in the Capitol rotunda from Sunday to Monday. A funeral mass is set for Monday at St Matthew's Cathedral with Cardinal Ishing officiating.
President Johnson faces monumental tasks after John F. Kennedy is killed by an assassin. In Dallas Lee Harvey Oswald is charged with the murder as the nation mourns. Johnson moves to White House consults with Rusk Eisenhower and congressional leaders pledging bipartisan support.
Dallas police and FBI tied Lee Harvey Oswald to the Kennedy assassination after a gunman struck down the president and wounding Governor Connally. Oswald, 24, denied involvement while police called him arrogant, and investigations continued as a manhunt began immediately.
Following President Kennedy s assassination reactions in Corry were uniformly shocked across all walks of life and beliefs. Students at the high school described silence and disbelief as the news spread while Rev. Leon Doleski of St Thomas Church lamented the tragedy, noting empty feelings and sorrow for the President and his family.
A House Interior Subcommittee hearing scheduled for Monday on proposed legislation to aid the Seneca Indians in adjusting to the Kingua dam and reservoir in Pa has been postponed indefinitely due to President Kennedy's assassination.
About 60 residents were trapped and killed when a pre-dawn fire swept through the Golden Age Nursing Home in Fitchville Ohio. Eighty four patients were registered. twenty one patients and three nurses survived at Fisher Titus Hospital. The fire occurred in a one story concrete building as authorities feared many bodies would be unidentifiable.
Undersecretary of Commerce Franklin D Roosevelt Jr with western Maryland business and political leaders suspended a scheduled meeting on Appalachian development yesterday following news of President Kennedy's assassination. A speech by Roosevelt and a general discussion were canceled, and Roosevelt departed for Washington.
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