THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

By His Excellency 

ENDICOTT PEABODY

Governor

EXECUTIVE ORDER 45

November 27, 1963

    WHEREAS, on October 25, 1963, a Proclamation setting aside
November 28, 1963, as a day of Thanksgiving and Prayer was signed by me;
and

    WHEREAS, since that date Our Beloved President, John F. Kennedy,
was tragically assassinated.

    NOW, THEREFORE, I, ENDICOTT PEABODY, Governor of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, do hereby issue this Executive Order:

	    The Proclamation setting aside November 28, 1963,
	as a day of Thanksgiving and Prayer, dated October 25,
	1963, is hereby rescinded and in its stead a new
	Proclamation issued this date setting aside November 28,
	1963, as a day of Thanksgiving and Prayer be read and
	posted.

GIVEN at the Executive Chamber in Boston,
this twenty-seventh day of November, in 
the year of our Lord, one thousand nine
hundred and sixty-three, and of the
Independence of the United States of
America, the one hundred and eighty-
eighth.

ENDICOTT PEABODY
Governor

KEVIN H. WHITE
Secretary of the Commonwealth

God Save The Commonwealth of Massachusetts