--- JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION 22 NOV 1963 --- Source: UPI Notes: Operator fights to control the wire ... THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT,DIMINISHING TOMORROW AFTERNOON. RAINFALL LIKELY EXCEEDING AN INCH. INCREASING SOUTHERLY WINDS BECOMING 20 BUSTY TO 40 MILES PER HOUR THIS AFTERNOON, SHIFTING TO WESTERLY LATE TONIGHT OR TOMORROW AND TURNING COLDER. LOW TONIGHT 30S CENTRAL TO 50S SOUTH, WITH TEMPERATURES STEADY OR FALLING TOMORROW. (BODY) (EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS)---THE MADISON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE SAID TODAY IT HAD NO CLUES T BUST GET OFF NXR & G E T OFF HX GET OFF GET OFF B U L L E T I N (DALLAS)1-AN UNKNOWN SNIPER FIRED THREE SHOTS AT PTOU KENNEEY OGTASP KENNEDY SERIOUSLY WOUNDED---- HR1238PCS STAY OFF ALL OF YOU STAY OFF AND KEEP OFF GET OFF NX M SPEAKING AT THE TT WILL U U P L E A S E STAY OFF THIS WIRE TILL WE GIV889 STAY OFF STAY OFF B U L L E T I N (DALLAS)---A SNIPER SERIOUSLY WOUNDED LDJVBUENT KENNEDY DOWNTOWN DALLAS TODAY...PERHAPS FATALLY. (DALLAS)---PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND GOVERNOR JOHN CONNALLY OF TEXAS HAVE BEEN CUT DOWN BY ASSASSINS BULLETS IN DOWNTOWN DALLAS. THEY WERE RIDING IN AN OPEN AUTOMOBILE WHEN THE SHOTS WERE FIRED. THE PRESIDENT, HIS LIMP BODY CRADLED IN THE ARMS OF HIS WIFE, JACQUELINE, HAS BEEN RUSHED TO PARKLAND HOSPITAL. HR1243PCS11/22.. STAY OFF UPR76 MORE KENNEDY BULETIN X X X HOSPITAL. THE GOVERNOR WAS TAKEN TO THE SAME HOSPITAL. THE PRESIDENT HAD SPOKEN THIS MORNING IN FORTH WORTH, THEN FLEW TO DALLAS. MCH KL145PES 2 HE WAS TO DELIVER A SPEECH DURING A MOTORCADE THROUGH THE CITY. NEWSMEN SOME FIVE CAR LENGHTS BEHIND THE PRESIDENT HEARD WHAT SOUNDED LIKE THREE BURSTS OF GUNFIRE. SECRET SERVICE AGENTS IN THE CAR FOLLOWING THE PRESIDENT'S QUICKLY PULLED AUTOMATIC RIFLES. THE BUBBLE OF THE PRESIDENT'S CAR WAS DOWN WHEN THE SHOTS RAND OUT. THE PRESIDENT SLUMPED OVER IN THE BACK SEAT, FACE DOWN. CONNALLY LAY ON THE FLOOW OF THE REAR SEAT. WOUNDS IN THE GOVERNOR'S CHEST WERE CLEARLY VISIBLE. THE WOUNDS INDICATED AN AUTOMATIC WEAPON WAS USED. BLOOD WAS SPATTERED OVER THE WHITE HOUSE CAR. MR. KENNEDY WAS SLUMPED OVER THE BACK SEAT. CONNALLY LAY ON THE FLOOW OF THE REAR SEAT. MRS KENNEDY APPARENTLY WAS NOT HURT. MRS. CONNALLY ALSO WAS SAFE. WITNESSES SAID THERE WERE THREE LOUD BURSTS OF GUNFIRE. MOTORCYCLE POLICE ESCORTING THE PRESIDENT QUICKLY LEAPED FROM THEIR BIKES AND RACED UP A GRASS HILL. MORE FK111P11/22CST UPR86 MORE SUB KENNEDY X X X WEAPON. AT THE HEIGHT OF THE EMERGENCY ROOM DRAMA, A WEEPING NEGRO WOMAN BEARING A SMALL BLOODY CHILD RUSHED INTO THE HOSPITAL WHERE A NURSE AND INTERN QUICKLY WENT TO HER SIDE. ALTHOUGH DALLAS IS REGARDED AS A CENTER OF STRONG POLITICAL OPPOSITION TO MR. KENNEDY...THE HEAVY STREET CROWDS WERE OVERWHELMINGLY FRIENDLY...BUT THERE WERE A FEW ANTI-KENNEDY PLACARDS THERE WAS ONE REPORT THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS WOUNDED IN THE HEAD. MRS. KENNEDY WAS HEARD TO SCREAM AS SHE REACHED FOR HER HUSBAND. FK117P11/22CST UPR87 U R G E N T (DALLAS)---AT 2:12 P.M. EST A SPECIAL CARTON OF BLODD, APPARENTLY FOR TRANSFUSION PURPOSES, WAS RUSHED INTO THE EMERGENCY WARD. TWO DALLAS POLICE OFFICERS CARRIED THE CARTON. FK118P11/22CST U R G E N T (DALLAS)---A FATHER HUBER, OF HOLY TRINITY CHURCH IN DALLAS ADMINISTERED THE LAST SACRAMENT OF THE CHURCH TO THE PRESIDENT. THE SACRAMENT WAS ADMINISTERED SHORTLY BEFORE 2 P.M. EST. ANOTHER PRIEST, WHO DECLINED TO GIVE HIS NAME, SAID THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE STILL WAS ALIVE AT THE TIME. SHERIFF'S OFFICERS TOOK A YOUNG MAN INTO CUSTODY AT THE SCENE AND QUESTIONED HIM BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. FK126P11/22CST UPR92 MORE KENNEDY URGENT X X X DOOR. VICE PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S WIFE, AFTER A QUICK CHECK ON CONDITIONS IN THE EMERGENCY SECTION, SAID HER HUSBAND WAS UNHARMED. THE VICE PRESIDENT WAS SOMEWHERE IN THE HOSPITAL, BUT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO DETERMINE HIS PRECISE WHEREABOUTS AT ONCE. HE WAS REPORTED BADLY SHOCKED BY THE SHOOTING. DOCTORS WERE TRYING TO KEEP HIM AS QUIET AS POSSIBLE. HE WAS UNDER HEAVY SECRET SERVICE AND POLICE PROTECTION. THROUGHOUT THE TEXAS TRIP, WHEN KENNEDY AND JOHNSON HAD BEEN IN THE SAME MOTORCADE, AS AN OBVIOUS SECURITY MEASURES THEY HAVE RIDDEN IN SEPARATE CARS. THE JOHNSON CAR HAS ALWAYS BEEN SOME DISTANCE FROM THE KENNEDY CAR, SOMETIMES BY AS MUCH AS 60 YARDS. FK129P11/22CST FLASH PRESIDENT KENNEDY DEAD JT135PCS UPR95 BULLETIN (DALLAS)---PRESIDENT KENNEDY IS DEAD. A135PCD11/22 UPR95 BULLETIN (DALLAS)---PRESIDENT KENNEDY IS DEAD. A136PCD11/22 UPR96 MORE KENNEDY BULLETIN XXX IS DEAD. HE WAS SHOT TO DEATH BY AN ASSASSIN IN THE STREETS OF DALLAS. HE WAS 45. A137PCD11/22 UPR97 MORE KENNEDY BULLETIN XXX WAS 45. HE WAS AT BY A SNIPER, WHO ALSO HIT TEXAS GOVERNOR JOHN CONNALLY. THE PRESIDENT HAD SPOKEN AT FORTH WORTH THIS MORNING. HE WAS TO DELIVER A SPEECH IN DALLAS THIS AFTERNOON. A139PCD11/22 UPR98 MORE KENNEDY BULLETIN XXX THIS AFTERNOON RIDING IN THE MOTORCADE WITH HIM WHEN HE WAS SHOT WERE HIS WIFE AND MRS. CONNALLY, WIFE OF THE TEXAS GOVERNOR. VICE PRESIDENT JOHNSON . . . WHO WILL BECOME PRESIDENT . . . WAS IN A CAR TO THE REAR. HE WAS NOT HURT. BUT HIS WIFE SAID HE WAS VISIBLY SHAKEN. IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SHOOTING, SECRET SERVICE AGENTS SURROUNDED HIM. A140PCD11/22 UPR99 MORE KENNEDY BULLETIN XXX SURROUNDED HIM. THE PRESIDENT, CRADLED IN HIS WIFE'S ARMS, HAD BEEN RUSHED IN HIS BLOOD-SPATTERED LIMOUSINE TO PARKLAND HOSPITAL AND TAKEN TO AN EMERGENCY ROOM. AN URGENT CALL WENT OUT FOR NEUROSURGEONS AND BLOOD. HE DIED AT THE HOSPITAL. A141PCD11/22 FLASH (DALLAS)---JOHNSON PRESIDENT. PRESIDENT KENNEDY IS DEAD...STRUCK DOWN BY AN ASSASSIN'S BULLET AS HE RODE IN A MOTORCADE THROUGH THE STREETS OF DALLAS. LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON IS THE 36TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES...SWORN INTO OFFICE ABOARD THE AIRLINER THAT HAD FLOWN MR. KENNEDY TO DALLAS THIS MORNING.