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LAWRENCE. KANSAS
61st Year, No. 51
Friday, Nov. 22, 1963
The President Is Dead Bullets Also Hit Gov. Connally of Texas
United Press International reported President Kennedy dead at 1:35 this afternoon.
DALLAS, — (UPI) — President Kennedy and Gov. John B. Connally of Texas were cutdown by an assassin's bullets as they toured downtown Dallas in an open automobile today.
The President, his limp body cradled in the arms of his wife, was rushed to Parkland hospital. The Governor also was taken to Parkland.
Clint Hall, a secret service agent assigned to Mrs. Kennedy, said "he's dead," as the president was lifted from the rear of a White House touring car, the famous "bubbletop" from Washington. He was rushed to an emergency room in the hospital.
reporters about five car lengths behind the chief executive heard what sounded like three bursts of gunfire.
Secret service aganest in a fellow-up car quickly unlimbered their automatic rifles.
The bubble top of the President's car was down.
The President was slumped over in the backseat of the car face down. Connally lay on the floor of their rear seat.
They drew their pistols, but the damage was done.
It was impossible to tell at once where Kennedy was hit but bullet wounds in Connally's chest were plainly visible, indicating the gunfire might possibly have come from an automatic weapon.
There were three loud bursts.
Dallas motorcycle officers erscoring the President quickly leaped from their bikes and raced up a grassy hill.
Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Connally were in the car.
Both women were crouched down over the inert forms of their husbands as the big car raced toward the hospital.
Mrs. Kennedy was on her knees on the floor of the rear seat with her head toward the President.
VICE PRESIDENT Lyndon B. Johnson was in a car behind the President's.
There was no immediate sign that he was hurt. In fact, there was no evidence at all at what might have happened to Johnson since only the President's car and its Secret Service follow-up car went to the hospital.
Congressman Jim Wright of Fort Worth said both Kennedy and Connally were seriously wounded, but were alive.
Blood was spattered over the limousine, which had been flown in specially to carry the President in a welcoming parade. The driver was secret service man Bill Greer.
THE MOTORCADE was so strung out as the result of the speedy Secret Service Department from the scene of the shooting that members of the Kennedy staff were from 15 minutes to a half hour behind in reaching the hospital.
It was impossible under the tension at the hospital to assemble a clearcut story of the incident.
SOME OF THE Secret Service agents thought the gunfire was from an automatic weapon fired to the right rear of the chief executive's car, probably from the grassy knoll to which motorcycle policemen directed their attention as they raced up the slope.
When the President was taken into the emergency room, a call was sent out immediately for some of the top surgical specialists in Dallas.
A CALL ALSO was sent for a Roman Catholic priest.
A second priest was escorted in a few moments later.
The President had landed only a short time before at Dallas Love Field and was driving to the trade mart to deliver a luncheon speech sponsored by three Dallas organizations.
The largest turnout of the current Texas tour was on the streets to greet Kennedy.
Students See HUAC Film
By Tom Coffman and Charles Corcoran
Students yesterday jammed the Forum Room of the Kansas Union to see the film, "Committee on Un-American Activities."
It was shown a second time for those who could not be squeezed in for the first showing.
The film, narrated from the viewpoint of a citizen weighing the merits and faults of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) strongly suggests the committee's procedures are unjustified.
"This film disproved the propaganda in 'Operation Abolition,'" a student commented. "Operation Abolition" depicts the 1960 anti-HUAC student riots in San Francisco as communist inspired. It is an official document of HUAC.
"OPERATION ABOLITION" was biased in one direction," another student commented."This film was biased in the other direction."
"This was a communist film if I ever saw one." charged another.
He added that the film distorted the work of HUAC. However, his reaction was in a small minority. Most viewers indicated by their conversation afterward they considered the film accurate.
Scenes from HUAC hearings, antiHUAC demonstrations, and commentaries—generally unfavorable on HUAC methods were included in the film. Defenses of the committee, most from speeches by committee members, were also presented.
IN ONE SEQUENCE a HUAC counsel was questioning a woman who had admitted connection with the Communist Party which she had later relinquished.
"Then you have returned to God and patriotism?" the investigator asked.
The audience howled.
Korean Dancer Portrays Many Roles
By Bob Jones
Won-Kyung Cho, Korean dancer, presented an unusual series of dances last night in Swarthout Recital Hall.
They were unusual, by American standards, because Cho danced the parts of both men and women.
AS AN EXAMPLE, in the "Kum Mu," or "The Sword Dance," the dancer is playing the part of a young warrior who has just killed the enemy general.
In the next dance on the program,
"Sal Puri Chum," "Impromptu Dance," the dancer portrays a woman who is recalling her past happy days.
In a talk following his performance, Cho explained that in Korea it is traditional that a male dancer can play both male and female roles in a dance.
HE EXPLAINED that this tradition was slowly dying out, and only in Japan was it as strong as ever. Two of the dances, "No In Mu" (The Dance of the Old Man) and "Tal Chum" (The Mask Dance) required Cho to wear masks as he danced.
These masks were used to depict the character of an old man recalling the days of his youth, and one of the characters from "The Mask Play," a Korean folk play.
Fan Dance Soceress
He explained that the Chinese influence can be seen in the Korean and Japanese dances, and demonstrated the different approaches dancers from the three countries take toward the same subject.
THE DIFFERENT methods of dancing between China, Korea, and Japan were demonstrated by Won-Kyung Cho, following the dance recital.
One of the examples he used to demonstrate was the use of the sword in the dances.
"THE CHINESE use the sword as a weapon of attack and defense," he said. "the Koreans use the sword as a kind of ornament in the dance, while the Japanese have a more realistic use of the sword in their dances."
Cho also showed slides of Korean silk screens having pictures of court dancers, both male and female, doing traditional dances accompanied by a group of male musicians.
The music played by these musicians, Cho explained, could be compared to the chamber music of the European courts in the 17th and 18th centuries.
INTERPRETATIONS of some of the movements in Korean dances were discussed, and Cho ended his talk with a demonstration of the bows male and female dancers make in China, Korea, and Japan.
Drum Dance
The audience burst into applause after a speech by witness William Mandel. San Francisco radio-TV commentator, condemning the committee for not presenting him with his accuser.
Evidence which claimed to show the true nature of the San Francisco riots was shown. Part of this evidence concluded that FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover's belief the riots were Communist-incited was inaccurate
When Hoover's name was mentioned again in the narration a low hiss rippled through the audience.
THE FILM OPENS with the narrator pondering the value of the committee. "I always thought the House Un-American Activities Committee should find out who is communist and subversive in this country," he says.
The film moves to scenes from Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party demonstrations, then news reels taken during the Great Depression. "In 1938 I was out of a job like so many others," comments the narrator, "and I was trying to find answers to the depression."
A news reel of Martin Dies, D- Texas, the first chairman of HUAC at its inception in 1938, shows the former congressman defending the committee as "the only committee in government with the power of exposure."
"If the ministers cannot be trusted," the citizen-narrator says in his pondering, "then who can be?"
Immunity from libel laws of the investigators and witnesses during the hearing, alleged violation of constitutional rights guaranteed by the first amendment, and alleged scare tactics by the committee are some of the commentators' arguments against HUAC.
One witness, a minister, charged that the patriotism of 70,000 Protestant clergy is questionable.
HUAC INVESTIGATION of the motion picture industry is depicted next, then the charges made against American clergymen that they are pawns of subversive elements.
The San Francisco riots and "Operation Abolition" are discussed at length. Much of the student irritation, the film contends, stems from being excluded from the HUAC hearings then being conducted in San Francisco. Only pro-HUAC persons were given white cards for admittance to the hearings, a film commentator contends.
HARRY BRIDGES, an admitted communist agitator, was not present when violence erupted, the commentator goes on to say. In "Operation Abolition," Bridges was shown as an instigator of the violence. The news reels from which "Operation Abolition" were made were edited so as to distort the communist's part in the riots, the commentator concludes.
The citizen-narrator at the end of the film is left with strong doubts about the methods of the HUAC and its justification for existing.
Laird Wilcox, Lawrence freshman and chairman of the SUA Minority Opinions Forum, which presented the film, said, "I think the film was slanted.
"However, I think it was a good thing that students had the opportunity to see it, since they have now been exposed to both sides of the question."
Of the fifteen students polled at random after the first showing, fourteen indicated they thought HUAC should be abolished.