{"id":1193,"date":"2013-11-22T12:56:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T12:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2014-12-23T18:26:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T18:26:16","slug":"nov-22-1963-assassination-of-a-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2013\/11\/22\/nov-22-1963-assassination-of-a-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov. 22, 1963:\u00a0Assassination of a president"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nov. 25 edition of the Post-Gazette. <\/div> <\/div>
\"Full-page <\/a>
Full-page announcement by Pittsburgh department stores. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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The Pittsburgh Press on the day of the assassination. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Newspaper headlines announcing John Fitzgerald Kennedy\u2019s assassination and state funeral also heralded a years-long wave of violence targeting American leaders.<\/p>\n

The grim list of dead includes Malcolm X (gunned down in a Manhattan ballroom on Feb. 21, 1965), the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (slain April 4, 1968, on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tenn.) and, of course, the late President Kennedy\u2019s younger brother, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (shot to death on June 6, 1968, as he left a California hotel during his campaign for president).<\/p>\n

John F. Kennedy\u2019s youthful vigor, optimism and call to public service had raised the nation\u2019s hopes for the future and prompted millions of Americans to vote for him in 1960. So, when the 44-year-old leader died, a nation mourned.<\/p>\n

In its final afternoon edition for Nov. 22, 1963, the front page of The Pittsburgh Press showed President Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connally in the motorcade as it headed toward Downtown Dallas. \u201cPresident Kennedy Slain By Assassin\u201d was the headline.<\/p>\n

In a story about local reaction that carried no byline, The Pittsburgh Press noted that, \u00a0\u201cWord traveled on those invisible lines of communication that make individuals listening posts and transmitters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Due partly to deadlines for morning newspapers, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wound up treating the president\u2019s death as a second-day news story on the front page of its Nov. 23 editions. \u201cKennedy Is Slain, Johnson Sworn In,\u201d it announced. The newspaper published a large picture of the late president edged in black.<\/p>\n

Inside the newspaper was a stark one-page announcement from local department stores Gimbels, Horne\u2019s and Kaufmann\u2019s. It read: \u201cWith a shocked and grieving nation, we mourn the tragic loss of John F. Kennedy \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

The now famous photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald\u2019s killing dominated the front page of the Nov. 25 Post-Gazette. Above the picture were two headlines: \u201cKennedy\u2019s Body Is Taken To Capitol\u201d and \u201cOswald Slain In Jail Shift.\u201d<\/p>\n

On its Monday, Nov. 25 edition, The Pittsburgh Press headline read, \u201cNation Lays Kennedy to Rest.\u201d<\/p>\n

While that statement was true, many Americans remain fascinated by events of that era despite the passage of a half-century. Many of us will pause, on this 50th anniversary, to remember JFK, a leader whose promise was unfulfilled because of violence.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newspaper headlines announcing John Fitzgerald Kennedy\u2019s assassination and state funeral also heralded a years-long wave of violence targeting American leaders.<\/p>\n

Look at the picturesNov. 22, 1963:\u00a0Assassination of a president<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[948],"tags":[962,980,1037,1048],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tumblr_mwmwstDNW21rr5swxo4_r1_1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C926&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1243,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2013\/11\/04\/bobby-vinton-orchestra-at-a-wilkinsburg-sock-hop\/","url_meta":{"origin":1193,"position":0},"title":"Bobby Vinton Orchestra at a Wilkinsburg sock hop","date":"November 4, 2013","format":"gallery","excerpt":"The picture that leads this blog post was taken in the third month of what would prove to be a very turbulent decade.","rel":"","context":"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tumblr_mvnrm0TdMH1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C885&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2661,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/08\/08\/oct-12-1962-the-front-page-headline-in-the\/","url_meta":{"origin":1193,"position":1},"title":"John F. 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