White House Press Office is jammed with reporters waiting for some bits of information, waiting for any kind of word on what is going to happen next. To repeat, most of the news from here is being received from dallas. Theres no late information on what the next the elements will be. Developments will be. The crowd is still gathering outside the front of the white house. Across pennsylvania avenue. The weather in washington is great, rather than seasonably warm. Like chill in the air. Beple here as people must all over the country, Walking Around with looks of stunned this belief on their faces. This is richard from larry anna valeriani at the white house. Very goldwater, the man who goldwater, they man who is regarded as the person to oppose president kennedy in election next year, has issued a statement in which he says it most shocking and dreadful that a thing like this could happen in a free country. The president s debt is a fountain loss is a profound loss to the nation. Mrs. Go
Russian sources noflt reaction directly from the kremlin was expected until tomorrow. The soviet news agency reported from new york here that, quote, an attempt was made on his life by persons believed to be among extreme right wing lmgts. Later they were informed that the president was dead. A heart clutching thought to think of the two children in the white house, the son and the young daughter. We can only assume they have been informed of their fathers death. Regardless of what one may have thought of the kennedies as a political institution, they were vivacious and people who were quite alive tchl situation at the moment is that the president john f. Kennedy is dead. His body is believed to be en route or shortly to be en route back to washington expected to arrive from dallas at 5 30 Eastern Standard Time today an hour and a half from now. The new president of the United States, lyndon b. Johnson is sworn in in dallas and remaining for the moment in dallas. The president s brothe