President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaimed November 25, 1963, a day of national mourning for the death of John F. Kennedy. His body was laid to rest at arlington National Cemetery and his wido Jacqueline lit the "eternal flame" at the location.
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Rarely noted, services were also held for Lee Havey Oswald and Dallas policeman J. D. Tippit. The attendance at the Tippit funeral was enormous, but the Oswald one was private by orers of the Federal Government.
Telephone service across the US was halted for one minute at noon, Eastern Time. Las Vegas closed its casinos for the third time in its history, the other two being for Good Friday (March 22) in 1940, and on April 12, 1945, after President Franklin D. Roosevelt died.
A suburb of Algiers was renamed for the late President on this day, as was the Rudolf-Wilde-Platz in Berlin.
Abraham Zapruder sold the rights to his 8mm film of the Kennedy assassination to LIFE Magazine for $150,000. It was paid in installments, and the first $25,000 was donated by Zapruder to Tippit's widow.
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