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On November 22, 1963, an assassin killed President John F. Kennedy while the President was in a car discovered during a motorcade through downtown Dallas.
In San Diego, the Evening Tribune broke the shocking news on the front page the same day. Two San Diego Union reporters – Peter Kaye and Lew Scarr – immediately traveled to Dallas to cover the Kennedy assassination. They were assisted by John Martin, now a retired ABC News correspondent, but then in Dallas on Union military leave.
From the San Diego Union, Saturday, November 23, 1963:
The president is assassinated; Johnson was sworn in
Sniper fire in Dallas kills Kennedy
Governor of Texas injured; Pro-Cuban suspect arrested
By Peter Kay, San Diego Union Staff Writer
DALLAS — President John F. Kennedy was shot dead yesterday by a hidden assassin.
He was hit in the head and neck by two shots fired at 12:30 p.m. (10:30 a.m. San Diego time) from the sixth floor of a building alongside his motorcade outside downtown. city of Dallas.
Mr. Kennedy, 46, the 35th and youngest president of the United States, died 30 minutes later in a Dallas hospital.
A third bullet hit and injured the Texas government. John B. Connally, 45, who was reported to be in satisfactory condition after surgery. Ms Kennedy and Ms Connally, who were also in the car, were not injured.
SUSPECT SEIZURE
Police seized a pro-Castro ex-Marine and accused him of the assassination.
This is Lee Oswald, 24, a 1959 defector from the Soviet Union and chairman of the Fair Play for Cuba committee here.
Oswald has also been charged with the murder of Dallas policeman JD Tippitt, 38, who sought to question him four miles from the scene of the assassination.
He was an employee of the Texas School Book Depository Building, which overlooks the off-ramp to the freeway where the motorcade passed and where the fatal shots were coming from.
Police found a Mauser rifle and three empty cartridges on the landing on the fifth floor of the building.
On November 23, 1963, the Kennedy assassination hit the headlines.
(The Union of San Diego)
JOHNSON ASSURES
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the new President of the United States at 3:39 pm CST.
The ceremony took place inside the Presidential Suite of Air Force One, the presidential jet, at Love Field, Dallas. The official who performed the service with tears in his eyes.
Immediately after the plane with Mr. Kennedy’s body, Mrs. Kennedy and the new president took off from Dallas and headed for Washington.
The President was here with his wife, his Vice President and Ms Johnson, Governor and Ms Connally and Senator Ralph Yarborough, on a scheduled stopover as part of a two-day political tour he was on in Texas.
He was to speak to the Dallas Citizens Council and was heading to the Dallas Trade Mart, where hundreds of influential local citizens were eating Kansas strip loin steaks and baked potatoes while they waited for his arrival. The motorcade departed Love Field shortly before noon and passed through the city’s suburbs and downtown for about eight miles, before the shooting occurred.
Mr. Kennedy was greeted by enthusiastic crowds.
