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a TII1AL THE Ri DS, GREATEST NEWSPAPER no, Americans UI "XEAB-No. 327 1963Chicago Tribune SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1963 17 VP 17 UYJUVJ Z1 -U1 -V Sva7 UUUYJ GOVERNOR WOUNDED; 1 35th President 36th President ACCUSED OF MURDER -4 uj lair -ft. -r OF TEXAS MARXIST Sniper Fires 3 Times from 6th Floor Window BY WAYNE THOMIS Chicago Tribune Press Service Dallas, Nov. 23 Saturday Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, a. professed Marxist and Castro follower, was charged late last night with the murder of.

President Kennedy. Police Chief Jessie Curry and Homicide Fritz of the Dallas police department made the formal accusation before Justice of the Peace Daniel Johnston. Oswald was held to the grand jury without bail and evidence against him will be presented- within the next two or three days. The action was taken a few minutes before midnight and less than 12 hours after the President was slain in a Dallas street while riding in an open car with the Texas governor, John B. Connally Jr.

Sniper Fires 3 Times Three shots were fired from the sixth floor of a building facing the street The President was struck in the head and the neck and died within a few minutes. Connally was shot thru the right lung, the bullet passing thru his wrist and into his thigh. The governor is expected to recover. A mountain of evidence, some circumstantial, connected Oswald, a confused turn-coat and ex-marine, with the assassination. Earlier yesterday, Oswald had been charged with the murder of a Dallas police man, J.

D. Tippit, father of three children. Witnesses said Oswald fired two shots into Tippit's head when he was stopped on a residential street less than 20 minutes after the Presidential assassination. Oswald has a long record of Marxist- and pro-Castro leanings. He spent nearly three years in Russia after renounc- Continued on page 4, col.

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a aw 2Ja. If or 3 ry; President Shot! in Head; Wife by His Side BY ROBERT YOUNG Chicago Tribune Press Service Dallas, Nov. 22 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated today. He was killed by a sniper who ambushed the automobile in which the chief executive and Mrs.

Kennedy were riding in a motorcade thru the streets of Dallas. Mrs. Kennedy was unharmed. Gov. John B.

Connally of Texas, riding with the President, was seriously wounded by two shots fired after the bullet which killed the Presi dent. Sworn In on 46, died at 1 p. m. Chicago time in the emergency room of a Dallas hospital half an hour after he was shot. He never regained consciousness.

Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as 36th President of the United States an hour and half after Presi dent Kennedy's death. Within minutes after he had taken the oath of office, Presi dent Johnson and Mrs. Kennedy took off for Washington. The body was aboard the jet plane.

On 2 Day Texas Tour President and Mrs. Kennedy came to Texas from Washington yesterday morning for a two- day series of speeches and public appearances in San Antonio, Houston, Fort Worth, Dallas, and Austin. The President was to have gone from Dallas to Austin tonight to end his tour, then spend the night at the ranch of John son, 60 miles west of the state capita. President Kennedy was killed by a bullet from a high-powered rifle with a telescopic sight. There were holes in his throat and the back of his head.

In the short time for exami- Continued on page 4, col. 5 Blood Stains Tell Tale MPT. jpaWM '1 right and the widow of Pres ident Kennedy on his left, John son repeated the oath of office, administered by Federal Judge Sarah T. Hughes of Dallas. Only 27 people were able to crowd, into the compartment.

The setting for the hastily arranged oath-taking ceremony was the forward section of the two-compartment Presidential Continued on page 8, coL 1 TV Week Section Because of the demand for this issue of The Tribune, some copies have been rushed to vendors with the week's TV programs listed in a special section printed in black and white. j. -A "k-fy A-' A HI IUPI Teleshoto Judge Sarah T. Hughes, Kennedy appointee to federal court, administering oath of office to Lyndon B. Johnson, in cabin' of Presidential piane at Dallas airport.

Watching are Mrs. Johnson (behind new President's arm) and Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy (right), widowed only hours earlier by assassin's gunfire. Charged as Assassin 19H3 MRS. KENNEDY BACK, GOES TO HOSPITAL 2 Children Are in Seclusion BY LOUISE HUTCHINSON IChieaw Tribsn Press Service Washington, Nov.

22 Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy, 34, spent with grie? and numbed by shock, walked unseeing thru a blaze of flashbulbs and television lights at Andrews air force base near here tonight and stepped into the hearse bearing her husband's body. She had sat alone beside the bronze coffin in the Presi dential jet on the flight from Dallas to the capital. No one intruded on her vigil. The navy hearse was battle ship gray and the Washington night foggy, but it's doubtful that Mrs. Kennedy, stricken only last August by the death of her infant son, Patrick, noted either.

Goes to Hospital With Atty. Gen. Robert Ken nedy, she rode to Bethesda Na val hospital, where she remained under her physician's care. She was to return to the White House later tonight with the body of the President, and spend the night in the execu tive mansion. Her two children were whisked from the White House to an unknown hideaway for the Whether Mrs.

Ken nedy would risk telling them r-H; fV; 'if i New President Picks Up Reins BY PHILIP DODD i (f. Chicoee Tribone Press Service Washington, Nov. 22 Lyndon Baines Johnson took over the reins as 36th President of the United States tonight after fly ing -into Washington with the body of his assassinated predecessor, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. After a round of conferences with Kennedy administration and congressional leaders, Pres ident Johnson left the White House for his northwest Wash ington home to spend the night Sworn In by Woman Johnson had taken the oath of office in the front compart ment of the Presidential jet as it stood on the runway at Dallas preparatory to taking off for Washington. gffiiliiiiiiii Mrs.

Jacqueline Kennedy, still wearing bloodstained clothing, with brother-in-law, Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, at Andrews- air force base, McL, after return from Texas. iupi Ttihotoi Lee Howard vOswald, accused assassin of President Kennedy and slayer of Dallas policeman, shortly after arrest. Iap wirtptwtoj With Mrs.

Johnson on his Contained on pags 4, coL 4 121 IMaa ai.