MOSCOW, Nov. 22, 1963 (UPI) - Moscow Radio's commentator, in mournful tones, tonight announced the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. "It is said he has been murdered by the extreme right wing elements," he said.

NEW YORK, Nov. 22, 1963 (UPI) - The New York Stock Exchange closed operations today after word of the assassination attempt against President Kennedy. The cotton and the wool exchanges also closed.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 1963 (UPI) - The military transport plane bearing Secretary of State Dean Rusk and other cabinet ministers to a meeting in Japan turned back between Honolulu and Tokyo today upon receipt of the report concerning the assassination of tOn the plane with Rusk were Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges and several other high officials.

LONDON, Nov. 22, 1963 (UPI) - The British Broadcasting Corporation after flashing the death of President Kennedy stopped regular broadcasting for several moments and played funeral music by Brahams.A radio announcer said apologetically, "Sorry we need a moment to collect ourselves."

JEFFERSON, Wis., Nov. 22, 1963 (UPI) - President Kennedy's younger sister, Rose, learned of his assassination today while watching a television broadcast from Dallas, Tex., where he was shot."She knows he is dead," said a spokesman at St. Colleta's, where she has lived for the past 20 years. "She was watching on television."

On a bitterly cold and snowy day in January, 1961, when he was inaugurated 35th president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy sounded a call to action that in many ways summed up his own remarkable career.

NEW YORK, Nov. 22, 1963 (UPI) - Adlai E. Stevenson, head of the U.S. mission to the United Nations, personally told his staff today of President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas.Stevenson, who was attacked by pickets in Dallas last month, called his staff heads to his office at the U.S. mission headquarters here to give them the news. He was reported to be deeply moved.

DALLAS, Nov. 22, 1963 (UPI) - Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn in today as president of the United States. He took the oath of office in the forward compartment of the presidential plane.

DALLAS, Nov. 22, 1963 (UPI) - President Kennedy was assassinated by a sniper today in downtown Dallas. Texas Governor John B. Connally was gravely wounded.

LONDON, Nov. 22, 1963 (UPI) - Sir Winston Churchill, former prime minister of Britain and the first honorary citizen of the United States, tonight called the assassination of President Kennedy a "monstrous act.""The loss to the United States and to the world is incalculable," he said. "Those who come after Mr. Kennedy must strive the more to achieve the ideals of world peace and human happiness and dignity to which his presidency was dedicated."

In this century four vice presidents of the United States have become presidents in emergencies.

VATICAN CITY, Nov. 22, 1963 (UPI) - Pope Paul VI today received with "profound grief" the news of President Kennedy's death. A Vatican spokesman said the pontiff went to his private chapel to pray.

MOSCOW, Nov. 23, 1963 (UPI) - Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev said today the death of President Kennedy "is a heavy blow to all people who hold dear the cause of peace and Soviet-American cooperation."In a cable to President Johnson, Khrushchev expressed the "indignation of Soviet people against the culprits of this base crime."

DALLAS, Nov. 23, 1963 (UPI) - There is another funeral, another grief-stricken family. Mrs. J.D. Tippet shares with Jacqueline Kennedy the sorrow of widowhood, for her husband was slain too.

DALLAS, Nov. 23, 1963 (UPI) - Texas Gov. John Connally, recovering from a sniper's bullet after four hours of surgery, was told by his wife today that his friend John F. Kennedy had died of his wounds.