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Campus Draped in Disbelief At News of Kennedy's Death
By Leta Cathcart
The campus was quiet Friday and Saturday.
Students walked home from canceled classes. Many did not recognize their friends. Many carried unopened umbrellas in a freezing drizzle.
Friday afternoon celebrating lost its appeal.
SOME, TOO stunned to move, clustered together in the rain. They said nothing.
A few students sat in a booth at the Old Mission Inn, 1904 Mass. The only sound in the room was a television set blaring in the corner. Students watched the TV or stared at the table. Their faces mirrored shock and disbelief.
"A LOT OF KIDS came running in when they first heard it. I just turned up the TV as loud as I could and let them listen. No one said a word," the waitress said.
The waitress said the students had been sitting in the booths since the news had first been broadcast.
A girl in one of the booths said, "It didn't happen here. It just didn't. We're civilized."
The boy across the table shook his head and said nothing.
The story was the same at the Stables, 1401 W. 7th St. A few sat at the counter and in the booths. No one was talking above a whisper. A song was playing on the juke box, but nobody was dancing.
THE WEATHER cleared Saturday morning, but nobody seemed to notice. Many were awakened by radios and TVs broadcasting the latest information about funeral arrangements and President Johnson's message to the nation.
One Lewis resident said, "A loud noise seemed kind of like a sacrilege." The dormitories were quiet. The students were unconscious to everything but the radios. Clusters of four and five students gathered
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in a room, staring silently at the radio.
Another student said, "He always seemed so indestructible. He can't be dead."
MANY STUDENTS crowded around television sets and radios in the hope that someone would tell
Gale Sayers is known more for gaining yardage on a football field than being eloquent, but Friday he perhaps expressed the feeling of football players all over the nation when he said:
"How can you play football when the flag is flying half-mast for the President of the United States."
Star Explains Football Quiet
Like most other football games scheduled for Saturday, KU's 72nd meeting with Missouri was postponed to this Saturday.
In the only game played in the Big Eight Conference, Nebraska upset Oklahoma, 29-20, giving the Cornhuskers the conference championship and an invitation to play in the Orange Bowl.
Jack Mitchell, coach of the KU football team said in an interview over the weekend he isn't sure how the postponement of the game will affect his Javhawkers.
"I know one thing though," Mitchell said. "The more time there is, the stronger Missouri will be because they had a tough game with Oklahoma. We can't get any stronger."
The All Student Council, in a special session Saturday morning, passed a resolution by a 15-14 vote requesting the athletic department to re-schedule the KU-MU game to Dec. 7.
them that President Kennedy was alive and everything was all right.
The game was rescheduled to this Saturday after a series of conferences Friday night following the death of President John Kennedy.
Many muttered, "That man must have been insane to kill Kennedy." Others kept asking, "Why? Why here? It's not supposed to happen here."
The President is dead. But it will be a while before KU realizes it.
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