22 Nov 1963
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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1963
Page
1
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover offered full FBI assistance to Dallas authorities to capture Kennedy assassination suspects. Hoover telephoned city officials moments after word of the attack.
President Kennedy dies after gunfire in downtown Dallas. Gov. Connally is wounded. Vice President Johnson is urged to take oath. The 7.65 Mauser rifle is found. Dallas sheriff reports dramatic scenes at Parkland Hospital and the assassination's immediate chaos.
On the day before the shooting a woman smiles while cradling her husband’s body as he is carried to a Dallas hospital after being struck by an assassin’s gunfire. The incident details remain unclear but the scene captures a distraught moment near the event.
Congo police expelled embassy counselor Boris Voronin from Leopoldville after arrest on charges of aiding a plot against the government. Voronin boarded a flight to Moscow via Brussels with military escort, while embassy press attache Yuri Maikotnykh remained in custody. Premier Adoula ordered both diplomats expelled by Saturday.
The Ecumenical Council approved using modern languages in most Roman Catholic worship by a vote of 2,158 to 19. The measure accompanies the dogmatic constitution on the liturgy to be promulgated by Pope Paul VI next week. The liturgy document aims to modernize worship for clearer understanding.
The 25-year-old wife of Franklin D Amour obtained a divorce in Los Angeles. She testified the husband barred her social life and friendships with peers. The couple, married in July 1956, shared joint custody of their two children.
In Key West Florida the Navy hopes a salvage ship can lift the wreckage of a U 2 spy plane from the Gulf of Mexico after a crash during a reconnaissance flight over Cuba. Air Force searchers continue for Capt Joe G Hyde Jr 33 of La Grange Georgia the SAC says the aircraft may have failed mechanically and the pilot may have ejected wearing a life jacket among coral reefs. Sources say the aircraft was on a surveillance mission over Cuba.
A U S Army Honest John rocket killed nine villagers and wounded nine as they gathered scrap metal on a firing range 30 miles north of Seoul. The army said the trespassers were warned but hid in bushes, and the rockets were fired at unusually short intervals.
A windy wintry storm spread snow sleet and freezing rain across the Great Plains with hazardous driving warnings in six states. Reports show heavy rains in the Mississippi Valley and several cities recording several inches of snow including Akron and Winner at four inches and Huron Aberdeen at two inches. Temperatures plummeted with Havre Montana at 11 below zero and Williston North Dakota at nine below.
New York stock exchange and cotton and wool markets closed in response to news of President Kennedy's assassination and an assassination attempt reported today.
Washington UPI report says news of the assassination attempt on President Kennedy sent Congress into stunned reactions. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana was informed by UPI of the flash, saying This is terrible I can't find words after a hushed pause.
Fair and warmer tomorrow afternoon with a high near 63 today. Low tomorrow around 40 with frost in colder Valley areas and a high near 68. Observer Willard L. Greene reports Thursday's high 56 and today's low 46 with 70 inches of rain recorded.
Dallas police officer is shot and killed while pursuing an assassin believed to be inside a movie theater in Oak Cliff. A second officer rushes the suspect after a tip, they struggle on a theater seat and the officer is wounded but the ranger arrests the man.
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