Cardinal Urges Kennedy Shrine

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30302, 30 November 1963, Page 13

Cardinal Urges Kennedy Shrine

(N .Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright)

BOSTON, November 28

Richard Cardinal Cushing today urged the creation of a national shrine in Boston to the late President John Kennedy, United Press International reported.

Speaking at its annual Thanksgiving party, he said: “He deserves it, and I am convinced that Jacqueline, the valiant woman, will approve of it as will other members of the family.” Cardinal Cushing, a close personal friend of Mr Kennedy, and his family, officiated at his funeral on Monday. President Johnson today honoured the memory of Mr Kennedy by renaming the Atlantic missile space centre in Florida after him in a Thanksgiving Day message to the nation. The President also changed the name of Cape Canveral to Cape Kennedy.

Earlier, Mr Johnson asked the Post Office to issue a postage stamp in honour of the late President. Other proposals, made throughout the nation to honour the memory of the dead President, by Congressmen, civic leaders, clergymen and others include highways, an airport, a cultural centre, parks, squares, dams, reservoirs. libraries, and scholarships. Mrs Kennedy, calm and composed, paid another visit to her husband’s grave today. She joined thousands of Washington citizens who went to Arlington National Cemetery to mark Thanksgiving Day. It was her fifth visit since the funeral. She was accompanied by her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill. White House aides, and Secret Service guards. Jack Ruby and the man he

killed, Lee Oswald, were apparently once neighbours, a newspaper claimed today. The “Dallas News” said police revealed that a man matching the description of Oswald, President Kennedy's alleged murderer, oince rented a room close to where Ruby lived. It quoted a police officer as saying: “This could be the key that we have been seeking." Ruby has denied that he knew Oswald. Oswald’s Reading Oswald borrowed books from a New Orleans library on the President, an assassination, communism and spying, the chief librarian said today, the Associated Press reported. Mr Jerome Cushman said Oswald took out the books when working in the city during the summer. Among books he borrowed was “The Huey Long Murder Case,” by Hermann Deutsch, a New Orleans columnist. Long, a United States Senator, was shot dead in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1935. His bodyguards immediately shot Dr. Carl Weiss, Long’s alleged murderer. Deutsch disputes speculation that has grown up through the years whether the mild-mannered. 29-year-old doctor was the actual assassin.

Mr Cushman said Oswald also borrowed "Portrait of a President,” by W. A. Manchester, which begins with Carl Sandburg’s brooding thoughts of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Oswald also borrowed a one-volume edition of five spy novels edited by Howard Haycraft. The works on communism, Mr Cushman said, were: “What We Know About Communism.” by Harry and Bonaro Oversgreet. “Russia Under Khrushchev.” by Alexander Werth, and “Portrait of a Revolutionary, ” by P S. R. Payne, which is about the Chinese Communist leader, Mao-tse Tung.