AFTER the unforgettable television coverage of the overwhelming events, we take up the story to show how President Johnson set out to practice, as well as promise, continuity in government, to examine the men closest to him, and to survey the situation at home and abroad that confronts him. But along with this inevitable forward movement of events, the recent past also needs further illuminating, and in THE NATION are more-can-now-be-told stories of those two unknown and bizarre men who so influenced history: Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby.

On the day of President Kennedy's funeral, many journalists and television men, subordinating their own private feelings, worked long and dedicated hours to describe and to photograph the ceremony. Among them was Ben Martin, one of four photographers we assigned to the coverage. At dusk on Sunday, he photographed the long line of mourners approaching the Capitol; then, not sure whether a dawn crowd might not be better, he was back at sunup.

Earlier, he had climbed high to the top of the Capitol rotunda, and hung over the banister, to photograph the guard of honor around the casket. But his most memorable shot--among four pages of color in this issue--was taken at the grave at Arlington. There, from about 150 yards away and with a 500-mm. telephoto lens--he movingly pictures Jackie, Bobby and Rose Kennedy.

OFTEN our readers are so affected by stories of people and institutions that need help that they send off a flurry of letters and checks.

Education's story about Miles, the struggling Negro college, in Birmingham, Ala. (TIME, Nov. 8), brought forth such an outpouring. A lady in New Haven sent $500. Other checks and letters of sympathy and encouragement came from all over--even from Birmingham itself. But the article elicited an even deeper response. Before Miles can win college accreditation, it needs a new science building, and more Ph.D.s on its faculty.

President Lucius Pitts reports that seven Ph.D.s have now offered to teach at Miles, three of them without pay. One Ph.D. volunteered from Malaysia, another from Lebanon. Four national foundations have shown an interest in Miles, 25 Harvard students have volunteered to spend next summer tutoring Miles students. Two Harvard professors have offered to teach summer school there. Yale students have started a drive to collect textbooks for Miles. "It's just unbelievable," says Pitts.

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