PRAVDA Coverage
Moscow Domestic Service in Russian 0400 GMT 23 November 1963--L
(From the PRAVDA Review)
(Text) On its first page, the paper publishes the
photograph of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who was killed yesterday in the
American city of Dallas. The late President was mortally wounded in the head,
and after 30 minutes dies in the city hospital. The murderer fired from a window
of the fifth or sixth floor when the President was driving in an open car to the
building where he was to make a speech.
Commentators in Dallas link the murder of the President with
the activities of the ultraright organizations. The city of Dallas is one of the
main centers of these organizations.
The paper carries a biography of John Kennedy. It recalls
among other things that the late President, speaking last summer at American
University in Washington, pointed out that all countries are mutually interested
in a just, true peace and in halting the arms race.
PRAVDA reports that immediately after the death of John
Kennedy all the constitutional powers of the President were assumed by U.S. Vice
President Lyndon Johnson. The paper prints a short biography of the new U.S.
president.