L . T .- OLD S . FR ID A Y-JANUARY 20, 1961. Good Evening Everybody: World reaction to that stirring KeMedy inaugural address on the whole is favorable. Even in Moscow - where they don't care for John Kennedy's attack on Communist tyranny. The Soviet press - adopting an attitude or wait and see. nm This is in line with Khrushchev's bid for another summit meeting. An idea which Mr. Kennedy did not turn down in his inaugural address. What about Chiang Kai Shek, and Mao Tse Tung? Chiang expresses concern over the possibility - that Washington won't support him quite so strongly in the future. Mao is d afraid he'll meet - a more vigorous defense of Formosa. A s for our westem allies, they all seem eatiafied with President Kennedy. West Germany - happy an about the KeMedy pledge to maintain westem rights in Berlin, REACTION - 2 Paris noting that Kennedy is supporting DeGaulle'a plan for Algeria. London - a spokesman for the Prime Minister remarking: "We need American leadership and we think we'll get that leadership trom Mr. Kennedy." C~A Interestin g react i on in Cuba. Cas tro, us p ending the execution of some counter-revolutionaries - doing this a pp arently as a gesture to im p ress President lennedy. liut the Cuban dicta t or did have his firing squad at work today executing - two more. And - sendin1 another group of thea - to jail. But the indication that he'll cut down on the bloodshed that has been off~nding even his friends in Latin America. A decision, that could save the lives - of many anti- Castroites - now in Cuban jails. KElfHEDY Some may have wondered for a moment today were we going to the Prea1dent1al inauguration after all? That was quite a scene them at the Capitol; d1gn1tariea gathered in the rotunda, Cardinal Cushing of Boston, delivering his long invocation - with smoke rising from the lecturn. Officials and secret service men moving around behind the Cardinal - trying to look inconspicuous but being far from that! Can you imagine their apprehension with all that smoke coming from just under the Cardinal's prayer. Would the lecturn burst into flames and force the new President and all the others to retreat? Then what would happen? The smoke contlnuihg as Marian Anderson sang "The Star Spangled Banner." But - they finally got it solved, as President elect Kennedy and President Eisenhower looked on, and wondered. The cau , J - crossed wires. Cause of so many fires. From then on everything went off without a hitch. John Fitzgerald Kennedy - taking office as our Thirty- KENNEDY - 2 Fifth President. The thirty-fourth individual to hold the office. u Why the discrepancy? As you may recall Grover Cleveland, President twice was out for a term. That's why he is counted twice 1n the roll call of Presidents. All of the familiar stately ceremony was there today on Capitol Hill - with a few novelties. The moat interesting of these - the Bible on the lecturn. Our • past Presidents have always used - the King James version of the spriptures. President Kennedy, using the I douay version instead - the a1l official Catholic version of the Bible. Another unfamiliar note . today - the length of the Kennedy speech. Or rather - the shortness of it. The President delivering a call to aqtion - in twelve hundred words. Some political scientists were saying today that it was "the most impressive inaugural address or that brief KENNEDY - 3 length since George Washington took office back in Seventeen Eighty-Nine." Tonight the Kennedy address is being studied around the world. Our friends and foes, trying to figure out what the new American President intends for the,. PARA DE FO~LQW KENNEDY The p arade down Pennsylvania Avenue following the inauguration, as most or you know already - was s · ectacular as these parades always are. President Kennedy rode - in the open car - with •rs. [ennedy, and Senator Spark■ an of Alaba ■ a. Then, Vice resident Johnson - and Mrs. Johnson, and their two daughters; and - Speaker -ayburn. Other ~ rominent figures of cour s e including foraer P resident Trua~n, Chief Justice Erl Warren, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Eleanor loo••••lt Grand Marshal or ~he parade - General Ja ■es Gavin - foraer aratrooperot •orld lar Two. ~ixteen thousand members or the A rmed forces took p art - including contingents from West P oint, Annapolis, the Air (orce Academy, the Const Guard Academy, and the Merchant Marine Acad~wy. Also more than thirty thousand civilians in the p rade - from feder al offici a ls to Boy couts. Some •tirsts• - in Nineteen Sixty One. The first time for fifty states to be re l resented. The firs time - we've ever seen a space vehicle on Pennsylvania Avenue. One of those we orbited successfully and then recovered. lt was there - along with rocket ships, ballistic missiles, and other wea p ons of the latest design - and the ? .T. boat - one just like young Jack I - commanded in World ar Two. The theme of ~is inaugural parade - •world peace thro11h new frontiers.• The the■ 3 of President enned7 when he acce p ted the Vemocratic nomin atio n - at the Convention. RUBBERS Among the unusual incidents in today's parade - here's one indicating how it was affected by the weather. As the detachments marched past - rubbers began to pile up in the gutter. The marchers cawe prepared - for the . blizzard. Many of them, wearing rubbers over their shoes as they set out down Pennsylvania Avenue. The pace of the march - working the excess footwear loose. Result - rubbers - flipping off. Bouncing around - under the trampers feet - kicked off alor1g the route of the 11D parade. A lot of marchers_. reaching the end of the march with one rubber, and one wet shoe. To ay, Wa3hington re•resented the U.S.A. - even in its weather. That heavy snowfall - blanketing•• city. Aud in g a wintry note to the inaugural. P iling u p slush on ennsylvania a enue - which had to be cleared away in a hurry. ~onditions, so bad - aoat of the usual formelities disappeared. for example, et l as t night's s ectaculer gala, evening dress was su osed to be mandatory - so directed by lmpreasario ' inatra. But many guests couldn 1 t get home and the gala coamittee advised the ■ not to try. So they turned up as t ey were - in business suits, house dreaaes, sports wear, and ao on. TROLLEY In Philadelphia, Bernard Halpin decided to do something about - the transportation problem. He and two friends entering a Philadelphia trolley barn - rolling out one of the vehicles. And off they went - careening through the city. Halpin and company - picking up passengers. Letting them off - whenever the bell rang, as 1f they were - the real motorman and crew. Not bothering - to collect fares. They were still at 1t - when the a l alarm went out from the trolley barn. The police, peering through the snow - for a run-away trolley. Which finally HOOVER Too bad America's Number One elder statesman had to miss the inauguration - because of the blizzard. As you no doubt know, Mr. Hoover flew up from Miami to see a man half his age be sworn in as President. Flew up and the plane couldn't land. If he had made it, we would have aNn the unique spectacle of three former Presidents side by aide - Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower. At eighty six he did hia utmost. He flew there and then the plane tumed and flew away from the blizzard. Back to Miami they went, where Former tnUIIJQ President Hoover watched the ceremony on TV.