Canceled...postponed...closed.
Millions of Americans halted their normal weekend activities to mourn their president.
President Kennedy loved to watch the Harvard-Yale football clash that would have been played today. It was canceled. So were scores of other college football games.
In Omaha the Mid-West Governors' Conference was postponed until further notice.
The lights of Broadway were dimmed last night. Broadway theaters and musical events closed. The famed Copacabana night club and others shut their doors. New Yorkers by the thousands entered St. Patrick's Cathedral to pray for the slain president.
In Atlanta Negro civil rights leaders halted demonstrations at city business places and called for a period of mourning.
In Mobile, Ala., a pro-segregation citizens council canceled a dinner scheduled for tonight at which Gov. Ross Barnett of Mississippi was to speak "due to the untimely death of President Kennedy."
The nation's three major television and radio networks, NBC, CBS and ABC, canceled all commercial programming yesterday after the president was mortally wounded.
The University of Massachusetts in Amherst suspended all classes, examinations and other university activities until after the funeral of Kennedy. Other universities and colleges suspended or curtailed their activities.
In Dallas the Civic Opera Association postponed its scheduled performance of the Verdi opera, "A Masked Ball." The Metropolitan Opera in New York canceled its scheduled performance of Wagner's "Twilight of the Gods."
Boxing bouts, horse racing and harness racing were canceled in various cities across the nation.
GOP National Chairman William Miller announced in St. Louis the postponement of the Republican National Conference that had been due to start today.
New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, announced candidate for the GOP presidential nomination, canceled his plans for a campaign visit to New Hampshire next week.
The famed showrooms of the gambling casinos in Las Vegas, Nev., were dark last night for the first time in years. Gambling continued as usual, however.
Major stock exchanges closed before the normal end of business yesterday. So did many businesses.
Throughout the nation federal, state and local government buildings flew flags at half staff.
Thousands of football fans had been set to descend on college stadiums today to cheer for their teams. Besides Harvard-Yale the games canceled or postponed included Duke vs. North Carolina; Air Force vs. Colorado; Columbia vs. Rutgers; Princeton vs. Dartmouth; Wisconsin vs. Minnesota; California vs. Stanford; Baylor vs. SMU; Kansas vs. Missouri; Indiana vs. Purdue; Rice vs. TCU.
The American Football League postponed its Sunday program of four games.
The session of the Inter American Press Association in Miami Beach abruptly ended after stunned delegates received word of the assassination. The IAPA expressed its "deepest sorrow" to the Kennedy family and the American people.
In Lubbock, Tex., the Texas Farmers Union canceled the rest of its weekend state convention.
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower had been scheduled to receive an award at the annual Lafayette Dinner in New York. It was postponed.
In Montclair, N.J., the New Jersey Draft Goldwater Committee canceled a Goldwater rally that had been scheduled for last night.
Burly longshoremen and tugboat crews halted work at the Port of New York for 24 hours in respect for the president. The usual weekend whirl of social events in New York collapsed. The Radio City Music Hall and other motion picture houses in Manhattan closed their doors.
The National Basketball League called off its games last night.
Dallas, the city where the president died, stopped in its tracks. Businesses and schools shut down. A pre-Christmas parade had been scheduled for today. It was called off.
The schedules of doctors and nurses in some New York hospitals were disrupted. They made emergency rounds administering sedatives to patients upset by the news of Kennedy's death.
Workmen making repairs in St. Francis Cathedral at Santa Fe, N.M., left their scaffolds and knelt in prayer before the altar when the news reached them. Universities, parochial schools and most public schools in that state canceled classes.
The National Association of Broadcasters canceled its final regional fall conference scheduled next week in San Francisco.
