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mahatmakanejeeves

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Sat Oct 26, 2024, 08:30 AM Oct 26

On this day, October 26, 1963, JFK rode in a rented open car in Amherst, Massachusetts.

JFK in rented open car, Amherst, Mass. today 1963--lavish space between vehicles, motorcade route past grassy knoll, no Secret Service agents next to President's car, opposing random traffic allowed on adjoining lane of street.
Twenty-seven days before assassination in Dallas.





Plan for JFK's open-car motorcade in Amherst, Mass., today 1963 shows astoundingly skimpy security:





Another photograph of JFK in open car in Amherst, Mass., today 1963, showing how recklessly exposed he was to danger:

White House and Secret Service were gambling with JFK's security in Amherst, Mass., today 1963, even though it was exactly a year after Cuban Missile Crisis, which made a lot of Soviet and Cuban operatives and others very angry at the American President.





Thu Oct 26, 2023: On this day, October 26, 1963, JFK rode in a rented open car in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Wed Oct 26, 2022: On this day, October 26, 1963, JFK was in a rented open car in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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