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...crowd was thick at the triangular Dealey Plaza, on the western end of downtown Dallas. There the motorcade slowed down to turn right into Houston Street for one block; then it turned left onto Elm?and, traveling at precisely 11.2 m.p.h., headed down a slight slope past the seven-story, orange brick headquarters of the Texas School Book Depository Co., a private firm that distributes textbooks. Inside the Lincoln, Mrs. Connally turned and smiled: "Mr. President, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you." Replied Kennedy, smiling: "That is very obvious...
...states at random, he has invited editors and publishers from Kentucky, New Jersey, Missouri and Washington into the White House to taste French cuisine and savor the Kennedy charm. Last week it was time for Texas-and Texas, of course, was different. Especially Dallas Morning News Publisher Edward Musgrove Dealey, 69, who was not content to pass the time with polite patter. He felt compelled to read a statement...
When another publisher protested the statement as being both ill-timed and untrue, Dealey grandly called for a show of hands on whether he had been "out of line." Some took him seriously, raised their hands. The President suffered the manners of his guest gracefully, dismissed the statement with one curt comment: "I don't subscribe to that paper. I'm tired of reading its editorials...
...Dips. That course has had its pitfalls. In its preoccupation with political judgments, the News stands in some danger of being a newspaper whose strength lies mostly in its shout. Its last major crusade came in 1924, when it helped chase the Ku Klux Klan out of Texas, although Dealey is still fond of pointing out that the News was the first Southern newspaper to call venereal diseases by their right names and the first paper in Texas to crusade for arsenical cattle dips. The News has only two staffers outside of Texas: Washington Correspondents Robert E. Baskin and John...
None of these things bothers Ted Dealey, who thinks of the News as a pulpit and of its readers as a congregation: "We feel a duty along the lines of leading them in thought along the proper channels. We are just the same as we always were. I'd say the left has just moved farther left. The leftist influence has gotten so much stronger that we have got to holler louder to make ourselves heard." On those terms, the News is a hollering success...