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• 8. WHICH MONARCH IS VISITING THE WHITE HOUSE
• Morocco's King Mohammed VI will discuss a range of issues, possibly including a dispute with neighboring Algeria, with Obama.
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• 9. HOW XBOX COULD BE HURTING MICROSOFT
• Critics argue the gaming console whose latest model debuted today is tying customers to living rooms when the world has gone mobile.
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• 10. ALASKA CHEERS ARRIVAL OF NATIONAL RESTAURANT CHAINS
• Remoteness of the 49th state is no longer preventing Alaskans from enjoying Lower-48 favorites like Olive Garden and Hard Rock Cafe.
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AP News in Brief
Reverent memorials planned for 50th anniversary of JFK's death in Dallas, Boston, Washington
• DALLAS (AP) -- Fifty years after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, thousands will mark the day with a solemn ceremony in Dealey Plaza, through which the president's motorcade passed when shots rang out.
• Friday's event will feature brief remarks by the mayor, the tolling of church bells and readings from the president's speeches by author David McCullough.
• It's a reverential approach that will be mirrored in Boston, where the JFK Library and Museum will open a small exhibit of never-before-displayed items from Kennedy's state funeral and host a musical tribute that isn't open to the public, and in Washington, where President Barack Obama will meet privately at the White House with leaders and volunteers from the Kennedy-established Peace Corps program.
• The committee convened by current Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings to plan the city's event wanted to focus "in a positive way more on the legacy of President Kennedy," said Ron Kirk, a former mayor and member of the panel.
• About 5,000 tickets were issued for the free ceremony in Dealey Plaza, which is flanked by the Texas School Book Depository building where sniper Lee Harvey Oswald perched on the sixth floor. The U.S. Naval Academy Men's Glee Club will perform in a nod to Kennedy's military service and there will be an Air Force flyover. A moment of silence will be held at 12:30 p.m., when the president was shot.
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