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Pg… 4 Editorial: An Intelligent, Courageous Presidency
Pg… 11 Tarzan's Paperback Comeback: The Hero of the Jungle and His Creator Emerge from Literary Limbo. By Paul Mandel
Pg… 15 LIFE Guide: Christmas Doings Across the Nation
Pg… 19 Letters to the Editors
Pg… 22 Murder of the President: An Assassin Kills John F. Kennedy in Dallas. Exclusive Pictures Show the Fatal Sequence Up Close as Bullets Strike the President and Texas' Governor Connally. President Lyndon Johnson Takes Oath of office and Flies to Washington with the Widowed First Lady and President Kennedy's Body. Homecoming of a Grief–Stricken Airborne Cabinet. Sorrow at the White House and Around the World. Theodore White Reports from Washington
Pg… 41 Fire Fighters' Tepee: Small Shelter Can Save Lives in Burning Forests
Pg… 46 Record Stamp Price: Three–Penny Hawaiian is, Pound for Pound, the Most Valuable Substance on Earth
Pg… 55 All–Purpose Anthony Newley: The British Actor–Singer–Playwright Delights the U.S.
Pg… 61 New Kinds of Fiddles: A Housewife Builds Stringed Instruments in All Sizes
Pg… 65 1913 II: Age of Innovation: In a Second Part of LIFE'S Series, a Boy's Camera Shows the Dash and Daring of the Decade and the Inventive Doings of a French Family
Pg… 72D Lyndon Johnson, the 36th President: The Humble Origins and Notable Career of John F. Kennedy's Successor
Pg… 78 Negro in the North, Part II: Power Structure, Integration, Militancy, Freedom Now: the Angry Negro's Rallying Cries are Confusing His Just and Urgent Cause. By Theodore H. White
Pg… 94 Artists' Self–Portraits: Some Great Painters Mirror Their Faces
Pg… 101 Intimate Memory of John Kennedy: A Lonely Cape Cod Beach was the President's Retreat?and the Place Where He Could be a Full–Time Family Man. Photographs by Mark Shaw
