Northwest Defender

Final Salute to a Great Leader LOSS OF BEST AMERICAN this painful loss, this immense loss. It is a grave loss for all humanity. President Kennedy will remain for us one of the greatest and noblest figures of history and we will venerate his memory. We will hold it as an example of courage for our children." 1 Africans, said an African specialist in the State Depart– ment, felt it easy to identify with President Kennedy. So many African leaders were young, "and they felt, here ~~~i~ was the United States, also with a young, personable 1 leader," he told JET. Even in the "bush country," when President Kennedy's image flashed across a movie screen, he was immediately recognized and there would be thun- tl Winning Smile: During another family crisis w?en father, Joseph P . Kennedy, was fel~ed by 3; strok~ m 1 the President exchanged New Years greetn?-gs w1th J nie Jones outside Palm Beach (Fla.) hosp1tal where elder Kennedy underwent treatment. Asserts Slaying Grew From WeH-Pianned Hate . Chicago Defender columnist Lillian Calhoun explamed President Kennedy's assassination this way: "There are already those who glibly call the assassin demented and many Americans will seek to hide behind one man's insanity. But this slayer was no ordinary insane man– he was insane along carefully tutored lines : to hate U.S. foreign policy, to hate the UN, to hate the Supreme Court, to hate Negroes, to hate Jews, to hate Catholics, to hate intellectualism, to hate income taxes, to hate, hate, hate." President Johnson Pho1tes Civil Rights Leaders President Lyndon Baines Johnson personally phoned several of the civil rights leaders long distance to ask their support in the coming months. CORE's James Farmer said the President indicated his intentions to con– tinue the advance of the Kennedy-sparked civil rights ef– forts on behalf of Negroes. Whitney M. Young Jr., execu-( tive director of the National Urban League, said Jo?n~on called him "twice." It was understood that Roy W1lkms, executive secretary of the NAACP, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. were also called. The leaders also said that the President set a meeting with them for "the very near future ." SNCC Will Not Halt Demonstrations As JFK Memorial Replying to author Louis Lomax's suggestion that civil rights groups should call a moratorium on direct action anti-segregation demonstrations until January as a me– mori<tl to the assassinated President John F. Kennedy, SNCC Chairman John Lewis said one word-"no." Even in SNCC's telegram of condolences to Atty. Gen. Robert Ken– nedy, Lewis hinted his group would continue action, say– ing : "The work that he (President Kennedy) has begun in behalf of the Negro and the nation must be finished." Then, he bluntly told JET : "Our feeling is that there should not be a cooling off period. The best we can do in his memory is to continue to seek to bring about justice' and freedom in this country. There should be no slow– down at all. A slow-down wouldn't be the wishes or desires of the late President." derous applause. tl Capital Mourners: Unable to control emotions, women Loss of the President will have a "tremendous impact" mourners cry unashamedly as funeral procession for late on Africa, the State Department aide predicted. "African President moves along Pennsylvania with Capitol in back– leaders,'' he said, "will now go into a period of looking at ground. Cortege displayed all the color and pageantry of what they have, and what they know about President historical 19 ur royal ceremon . ..r .. .. yn-d.on -B•.•Jioiiiihiiiniil . s•o•n-•a•n•d,.;J;.·u.s•t•w ..a ..i.. t.. in~g~to~s .. e.e........ ~~~~ Rights Bill Best Tribute, u ur an Churches Say Meeting in Prospect Heights, Ill., on race and religion in suburbia, the Conference of Churches of the United Church of Christ in the Northwest Suburbs decided that the best memorial to President Kennedy was an effective civil rights bill. Urging such a bill, Kennedy asked Con– gressmen to "look into your hearts-not in search of char– ity, for the Negro neither wants nor needs condescension -but lor the one plain, proud and priceless quality that unites us all as Americans: a sense of justice." ' Mu1lflcc ~orrell tl That Dangerous Pose: When he entertained Ethiopia's Haile Selassie (!) in Washington recently, President Ken– nedy took favorite stance in car t o give the adoring throngs he loved a chance to see him. Auto's bubble top may have saved his life. A Negro cab driver in New York, on the President's death : " When my f ather died I didn't shed a tear untll the fu-, neral was almost over: When Mr. Kennedy died, I cried so much I couldn't drive t his cab. I had to take it into the garage. I didn't know I could love a white man that much." An unidentified commentator, recalling JFK's contribu– tion to equa,t job opportunity: "He did with wdustry and labor what ... the NAACP had done with the whole problem. He made 'discrimination' a dirty word." Dr. Preston Bradley, one of Chicago's most notable.clergy– men: " The President's tragic death presents this chal– lenge to all of us-Let us respect every person's altar, let us respect every person's creed, let us acknowledge the sanctity of every person's race. We have seen what hatred can do ." Kwame Nkrumah, president of <?hana, statin~ .~ennedy had carried on what Abraham Lmcoln began. And llke Lincoln he was prevented from carrying his endeavors to t he great heights he had set for himself- by an assassin's bullet." The Rev. J, I. Ware, Birmingham minister, urging JFK to in tercede in Birmingh am last J anuary in words that proved to be prophetic: "God grant you the wisdom, the st rength and the courage to act now bef ore it is t oo late." President Kennedy: "It is the t ate ot this generat ion ... to live with a struggle we di d n ot start , in a wor ld we not make. But the pr essures ot lif e are not always distri b– uted by choice." The London Evening Standard, on Mrs. Kennedy's compo– sure : "Jacqueline Kennedy has given the American from this day on one thing they have always La4~KI~a-- , !R • 0 'LBJ Will Be Better Than Kennedy'; Dallas Cleric Assessing the Kennedy Administration's contributions to Negroes, Dallas minister the Rev. Dr. Ernest C. Estell said, "from the very beginning I felt Kennedy was going to make the best President we ever had. And nothing has changed my mind." Turning to the Administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson, the clergyman told JET: "He definitely will be as good, if not better than, Kennedy. He's going to be to the executive branch what Justice Hugo Black was to the judiciary." Dr. Estell served on the President's Committee for Equal Employment, which Johnson headed while Vice President, and on the same agency under President Dwight Eisenhower. THESE CARS MUST BE SOLD! 5 5 DELIVERS We will arrange complete 1 financing including the down pymt. 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Northwest Defender_1964-01-09