10-08-2014, 03:24 PM
Scott Kaiser Wrote:No, it was birthed shortly after the BOP's, although, Kennedy did say to his wife Jackie during the CMC, "If anyone is gonna shoot me, now's the time to do it." [Not an exact quote, paraphrasing].
I think you're referring to a story about Kennedy on the morning of 11/22/1963 in Fort Worth. JFK mused about how easy it would be for someone to shoot a president. He remarked "Last night would have been a hell of a night to assassinate a president...anyone perched above the crowd with a rifle could do it." Another version of the story has him saying, "There was the rain, the dark, and we were all getting jostled. Suppose a man had a pistol in a briefcase...Then he could have dropped the gun into the case, dropped the case, and melted into the crowd." (Death of a President) Kennedy apparently told variations of these stories a few times to different people during the trip. (Lone Star p265, p271; No Final Victories p158)