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Volume XVI—Number 28_ P&ICE TEN CENTS
Nation’s Negroes See Kennedy Martyr To Their Cause
PRESiDENT JOHNSON URGES CIVlL RIGHTS BILL PASSAGE- NOW
Night Club
Owner Revenge
Assassination Of
Pres. Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
Shot To Death
In Jail Transfer
I Dallas, Texas, Nov. 25 — In
a frightening scene viewed by
millions on television, Jack
Ruby a Dallas Night Club own
er shot Lee Harvey Oswald to
death late Sunday afternoon, in
what he later called revenge
vested upon Oswald for the
Friday assassination, in Dallas,
of President John F. Kennedy.
Oswald was shot to death as
he was being transferred from
the city jail to the county jail
in Dallas. As Oswald emerg
Sed from the basement of the
Citv jail between two officers,
Ruby leaped out of a nearby
car and ran up and shot Oswald
twice in the stomach at close
range. Oswald died at a local
hospital while undergoing medi
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Ruby, Oswald
As Neighbors
Dallas, Tex. Nov. 28 — The
Dallas Morning News said
Thursday Morning officers in
vestigating the assassination of
President Kennedy have infor
mation indicating that Lee Har
vey Oswald rented a room near
Jack Ruby’s home.
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1 Negro Youth
I Sentenced In
N. C. Rioting
Lexington, N. C. — Three
Negro youths who participated
in a race riot in which one
white man was shot to death
end another wounded drew jail
terms Wednesday ranging from
six months to seven years.
In sentencing the three Sup
erior Court Judge John R. Mc
Laughlin said it appeared to
him that whites had touched
off the violence.
All three of the Negro de
fendants originally were charg
ed with first degree murder.
Two of them, Roosevelt Smith,
21, and William Chester John
son, 18, pleaded guilty Wednes
day to a lesser charge of engag
ing in a riot and were given
six-month jail terms each.
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Rev. Kelly Miler
Smith Quits
Cleveland Ch.
Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 20.—
Antioch, the city's biggest Ne
gro Baptist church has had only
eight ministers in 70 years. But
the eighth one, Rev. Kelly Miller
8mith, the Mound Bayou, Miss.,
native, set a record for brief
stay.
Called to the pastorate here
in September, he announced last
week, he is quitting to return
to the pulpit he vacated at
Nashville's First Baptist church
December 81. The Nashville
church has a membership of
only 400.
Why ha decided to quit the
Antioch pulpit is something of
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PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY—His funeral in Washington along with Mrs. Kennedy and his wife bringing President Kennedy’s
Monday and burial at Arlington National Cemetery witnessed via , , ,Xr „v ■ nQl,QO wv,nrD v,0 WQ« aa^Qi
television by millions around the world. Vice-President Lyndon Banes body back to Washm^on from DalIas’ Texas where he was assassl“
Johnson is swom-in as President as he prepares to board the plane nated Friday. ____
Story Of Being Set On Fire
By Negroes Is Repudiated
Arson Investigators Say White
Man Set Himself On Fire
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 20. — A
white man who stated that a
group of Negroes set his clothes
afire and made a human torch
out of him, had his story re
pudiated by an arson squad in
vestigator, who stated Monday
that the man unintentionally
set his clothes on fire.
On Nov. 11, 39-year-old Wil
liam Lanigan was carried to
Grady hospital with third degree
burns over the upper part of
his body. At this time the vic
tim stated that the Negroes had
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Entire Soviet
Embassy Staff
Ordered Out
Of The Congo
Charge Reds With
Plot To Overthrow
The Government
Leopoldville, The Congo —
Premier Cyrille Adoula charged
last Thursday that the Soviet
Union is financing a plot to
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Fashion To
Honor Josephine
Baker At The
Waldorf Astoria
New York, Nov. 25. — The
National Association of Fashion
& Accessory Designers will hon
or Josephine Baker, world-fa
mous chanteuse, with its “Best
Dressed Woman” award on the
occasion of the organization's
annual Luncheon-Fashion Show,
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Racial And Religious Groups Form
Important Conf. Across Nation
New York, N. Y. Nov. 25
Interreligious and interracial
conferences have been formed
in 46 cities across the country
and significant programs of ac
tion are underway in 19 of these
cities, it was announced by the
Rev. Galen Weaver, executive
secretary, National Conference
on Religion and Race (NCRR).
The announcement was based
on a comprehensive field re
port recently completed by NC
RR.
The National Conference was
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Appeals Court
Rules Black
Muslim Sect
Not Religion
Chcago, Nov. 20 — The Black
Muslim sect, headed by Elijah
Muhammad, was described as
being not a religion, but as an
organization which seeks to ov
erthrow the white race and fos
ter racial strife within prison
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Randolph Hails
Organized Labor’s
Civil Rights
Task Force
Organized labor’s proposed
civil rights task force “will do
much toward helping to elimi
nate race bias,” AFL-CIO Vic«
President A. Philip ■ Randolph
declared in a network radio in
terview today.
This “socia-economic labor in
vention,” asserted Randolph, wil]
work at the local level through
out the nation to “arouse, awak
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PRES. LYNDON B. JOHNSON’S
FIRST STATE OF THE NATION
ADDRESS PUTS GREAT
EMPHASIS ON BROTHER
HOOD AND CIVIL RIGHTS
Southerners Unanimous In
Rejecting Civil Rights Stand
Little Hope For Passage This Year
Washington, D. C. Nov. 27—
President Lyndon B. Johnson,
addressing a joint session of
Congress Wednesday in what is
regarded as his first state of
the nation address, while call
ing for national unity, put the
greatest possible emphasis on
brotherhood and civil rights.
Democrat and Republicans
alike praised the new President
for his call for national unity
in the aftermath of the assassi
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Mississippians In Congress Rap
Johnson’s Civil Rights Stand
Washington, D. C. Nov. 27 —
The Mississippi delegation in
Congress was quick to join oth
er southerners in condemning
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s
stand on civil rights in his first
state of the nation address de
livered today to a joint session
of Congress.
From his home in Ruleville,
Mississippi Senator James 0.
Eastland, Chairman of the pow
erful Senate Judiciary Commit
tee said it is not “the disposi
tion of Congress to be stam
peded” into taking action on
highly controversial issues.
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CBS To Examine Temper Of
Northern Negro & Their Leaders
New York, N. Y. Nov. 26—
The Northern Negro's moods,
feelings and thoughts about
hiirjje7(*, his leaders and the
entire civil rights effort, told
in the actions and words pf the
Negro and those organizations
which seek to have him follow
them, are examined on CBS Re
ports: “The Harlem Temper,”
Wednesday, Dec. 11 (7:30-8:30
PM, EST) on the CBS Televi
sion Network. CBS New Corres
pondent Harry Reasoner is the
reporter.
In exploring the temper of
the Northern Negro as the win
ter of 1968 approaches, the
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Say Negroes
Moving Up
Job Ladder
New York, N. Y. Nov. 25 —
While headlines still shout ol
racial tension, employment ol
Negroes in preferred jobs hae
been on the steady rise through,
out the country. Most dramat
ically, there has been a wide
spread lowering of work bar
riers in the South.
The ‘Mvhite only” rule hai
been discarded in surprising
places, writes Irwin Ross in
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Lincoln $ Words
At Gettysburg
Timeless In
Their Meaning
Eisenhower Speaks
At Rededication
Of Battleground
Gettysburg, Pa., Nov. 20.—
Former President Dwight D.
Eisenhower said Tuesday that
the words of Abraham Lincoln
in His Gettysburg Address are
timeless in their meaning.
Eisenhower, in remarks at the
rededication of the cemetery on
the Gettysburg battlefield, said
that Lincoln in his address 100
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Eternal Flame
To Light The
Kennedy Grave
WASHINGTON
An “eternal” flame will
burn at the head of John
F. Kennedy’s grave in Ar
lington National Cemetery.
The flame will be fueled
at first by a temporary ap
paratus. A copper tube was
run over a distance of
about 100 yards to the grave
site Sunday night to carry
bottled gas .to the site. Later
a permanent installation to
fuel the flame will be made.
No such flame has burn
ed before in Arlington.
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Negro Reporter
Joins Time
Wash. Staff
Washington — Wallace H,
Terry 2nd, 25, a reporter fo;
the Washington Post for th<
past three and a half years, ha!
been named Washington corres
pondent for Time, weekly newi
magazine.
Bom in New York City, Terrj
was graduated from Brown Uni
versity where he was editor, o
the college daily newspaper am
did graduate work as a Rocke
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Negro Leaders Reflect The Feeling
Of Nation’s Negro In Their
Statements Regarding The
Assassination of Pres. Kennedy
See Opposition To Stand For Civil
Rights Major Cause of Slaying
Washington, D. C. Nov. 27
—The Negroes of this country,
both north and south, see Pre
sident Kennedy as a martyr to
their cause, with his assassi
nation and death coming direct,
ly as a result of his stand for
racial equality and civil rights.
This fact may be easily seen
in the charges that has been
voiced by prominent Negroes in
all walks of life, and in every
section of the country, perhaps
not in the same words but with
unmistakable meaning, that the
assassination of President Ken
nedy by Lee Harvey Oswald
in Dallas, Texas last Friday
noon was the intended and
logical fruit of the campaign
of hate created and aroused
against the Kennedy family.
Only a few minutes after the
President's death had become
certain, Rev. Martin Luther
King, the most prominent of the
nation’s Negro Civil Rights
leaders, associated the death
with the famous telephone con
servation to Georgia that
brought his release from jail,
and the subsequent letter of
consolation to his wife that is
said to have been mainly re
sponsible for the Negro vote in
1960 credited with a major role
in the election of John F. Ken
nedy to the Presidency of the
United States, and Lyndon B.
Johnson, to the Vice-Presidency
of the United States.
Rev. King took sometime in
creating the impression that
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Local Negro Citizens Mourn
Assassination Of President
More than 2,000 mourning Ne
groes filed silently into Jack
son’s Lynch Street Masonic
Temple here Monday noon to
attend Memorial Services for
President John F. Kennedy, vic
tim of assassination last Fri
day.
Choirs and soloists of the city,
religious leaders of all faiths,
civic and business leaders, join
i ed in a moving tribute to the
nation’s fallen Commander-in
Chief at the same hour of the
President’s funeral in Washing
ton.
In the official eulogy, said by
Dr. R. M. Stevens, President
of Campbell College in Jackson,
the silent listeners were told
that “His death should bring to
us re-discovery of the living
God”, and that “the moving
finger writes, and having writ
ten moves on ... it now re
mains for another to pick up
the torch of liberty.” He spoke
of the President ag a man who
“could walk with Kings and yet
not lose the common touch.” He
added that “he was loved by
people who never really knew
him.” Dr. Stevens urged his
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President Reddix Of Jackson State
College Eulogizes Pres. Kennedy
l nave been asked to maice
some brief remarks on the
meaning of the tragic event that
fell upon all of the people of
our country in the early after
noon yesterday.
I was seated at lunch with my
family when the stunning an
nouncement was made over tele
vision that President John F.
Kennedy has been shot. From
that moment and for the next
half hour, the emotions of every
one in the room were frozen j
with anxious anticipation that
the next word would be that the
announcement was a mistake—
that the President was only
slightly wounded, or that he
would recover. We waited in
vain, xou Know tne rest oi tne
tragic story. If at that time
I had been asked to try to ex
plain what the significance of
that tragic event meant to our
Nation, I , like any other citix
en, would have choked with
emotion and silence.
The life of President John F.
Kennedy through his remark
able ancestors and family is a
composite personification of the
ideal young leader that is en
siaged in the ‘American
Dream.’ To me, his life was a
sort of reincarnation of all the
national virtues that our fore- v
farthers would have wished to
have preserved in the future
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BECKWITH TRIAL DATE SET
BY JUDGE LEON HENDRICK
, Judge Leon Hendrick has set
I Monday January 27, as the date
| to begin the trial in Hinds Coun
! ty Circuit Court, of Byron De
i La Beckwith charged with
; murder in the sniper assassina-j
: tion of state NAACP Secretary !
J Medgar Evers.
5 Evers, 37, state field secre
• tary for the NAACP, was gunned ;
i down from behind with a high
powered rifle in front of his
r Jackson borne early on the .
j morning of June 11 He was re
p | turning home from a meeting
,1 with other integration leaders.
'< The 42-year-old Beckwith, a i
‘ | Greenwood salesman. -surredfr
. I > .
aerea nimseu wroi
had kept him under surveillance
at his home for several days.
Officers said a fingerprint on
the telescopic scope of a .30 cali
bre rifle discovered near the
murder scene had led them to
Beckwith*
Jan. 37 trial date was recom
mended by attorney Stanny
Sanders, on<of Beckwith’s three
lawyers, after both defense and
prosecution agreed tMjr would
need adequate time to make ar
rangements for witnesses to ap
pear in court.
Judge Hendrick granted a de
fense motion that a special v*
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