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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1963
Page
3
Abraham Zapruder and his wife declined comment on a $25,000 donation to the Tippit family from proceeds of the Kennedy assassination film. Time and Life confirmed buying still rights but not the amount. Police vault stores gifts as fundraising nears $100,000 with $20,000 expected Monday deposit.
Lawrence Brayton an Alaska man overstay in Moscow presses for marriage with Rosita Shifman as Soviet visa deadline passes. He remains with his fiancée at her home despite official orders to depart before midnight Friday. The couple first met on a Yalta beach in September and aim to wed on December 17.
Jenny D. Bassett reached 105 as relatives noted many cards and flowers. A treasured birthday memento is a White House card signed by the late John F. Kennedy, postmarked Washington on Friday November 22 the day of the president's assassination in Dallas.
Tucson Arizona became the owner of the first municipal airport in the United States in 1919, marking a landmark development for local aviation history.
Fort Worth stenographer recounts Oswald hired her in 1962 to type part of an anti Communist manuscript. He stopped after three days claiming only ten dollars, stayed anxious and fidgety, and refused to let copies or notes be kept before leaving.
Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies led a Liberal-Country coalition to a landslide win in the general election. With 69 of 122 seats declared, Labor held 50 and three seats remained undecided, ending a 14 year tenure by Menzies and promising a strengthened alliance with the United States.
President Johnson expected to nominate Cyrus R. Vance to deputy secretary of defense within weeks. Vance, currently Army secretary and former Defense Department general counsel, would take the deputy role in January ahead of Senate confirmation.
West Europeans view Johnson with cautious optimism. They support his loyalty to Kennedy's policy, readiness to negotiate with the Russians while defending Western interests, and note his recent travels expanding his knowledge. France expects a firm stance on Moscow and maintains differences over de Gaulle's nuclear force and alliance policies.
American flags at Mobile fire stations were raised to full staff after Fire Chief C Dan Sirmon said he misread a news story about a 30 day mourning period for President Kennedy. He stated the oversight occurred because he did not know Governor Wallace had ordered the same period.
Washington AP reports that killing a Secret Service man guarding President Kennedy would be a federal crime, but the Kennedy assassination was prosecuted as a state crime. Congress may add federal penalties for attacking or conspiring against the president and successor officials, with bills introduced in Congress.
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