The sponsors of next week's Dallas luncheon said today that they expect President Kennedy to travel between the site and Love Field by the most direct traffic artery. They see little chance that the President will change his plans to include a motorcade through downtown Dallas.

Dallas leaders are concerned that demonstrators will embarrass or try to harm President Kennedy during his upcoming speech here. Extensive security measures are being taken, and a front-page headline in today's Dallas Morning News reads "Incident-Free Day Urged for JFK Visit".

writing a book series about a cartoon character whose last name is the type of animal he is must have felt incredible for Gary K. Wolf

At the annual White House Turkey Presentation, President Kennedy surprisingly breaks with tradition, sending the turkey back to the farm rather than having it for Thanksgiving dinner. Newsmen joke that Kennedy has "pardoned" the turkey and suggest that a new tradition has begun.

gambling on the outcome of a war is behavior that could have plausibly gotten a person killed at any point in the past 3,000 years

The Dallas Times Herald has put out the first edition of today's afternoon paper, with a map of tomorrow's motorcade route. At the Texas School Book Depository downtown, a clerk excitedly shows the map to his coworkers – the President will pass right in front of their building.

A second anonymous threat is received in Houston as the city prepares for President Kennedy's visit. City switchboard operator Lois Rigby takes a call from a man who says "The President will never leave Houston alive." The message is logged and promptly dismissed as a prank.

The chairman of the Harris County Republican Party, George H. W. Bush, urges Houstonians to greet President Kennedy warmly and discourages any demonstrations against him. "There may be some nuts around who might do something," Bush says, "but they won't be Republicans."

At Dallas' Carousel Club, owner Jack Ruby takes the stage to demonstrate a twisting exercise board he invented. "Even President Kennedy tells us to get more exercise," he says. When a heckler calls Kennedy a "bum", Ruby is angry: "Don't ever talk that way about the President!"

i think this may be the first time this magazine article has been posted online. i found it at the UW Memorial Library and scanned it myself

BREAKING: A series of gunshots were heard in Dealey Plaza as President Kennedy's motorcade drove past. The president appears to have been seriously wounded.

oh my god, turn on the TV! it doesn’t matter which of the three channels!

still there