Fifty years on from the assassination of President John F Kennedy in Dallas, here is how the Hull Daily Mail reported the news that shocked the world. The shooting happened on November 22, but the first available edition of the paper was the following day - Saturday 23. By then, Lee Harvey Oswald had been charged with the murders of Kennedy and policeman J.D. Tippit.
Describing Oswald as a "suspected communist sympathiser", the paper explains how the former Marine defected to the Soviet Union before returning to the United States. However, at this early stage of the investigation, the report asks whether the "assassin or assassins" might be professional killers hired to do the job. The infamous Warren Report into JFK's death later dismissed the idea there had been more than one gunman, but its conclusions have been challenged ever since.
The Mail's front page carries the news that the Duke of Edinburgh was to represent the Queen at Kennedy's funeral. It also runs a piece on the so-called "curse" of the Kennedy family.
Kennedy's death was being marked today with a solemn ceremony in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, through which the president's motorcade passed when shots rang out. Prime Minister David Cameron said the thoughts of Britain were with the American people. He said JFK represented "the very best of politics".![HMDjfk]()
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