Weeks after John Fitzgerald Kennedy flap Richard Nixon in the 1960 United States presidential election , an elderly man nearly kill the President - Elect .
Richard Pavlick , adisturbed manwith anti - Catholic thought , packed his railcar and travel from New Hampshire to Florida with one finish in judgment – the death of President - Elect Kennedy . Pavlick ’s brute force programme would likely have win , but a moment of compassion stopped Pavlick in his tracks and reserve for the earned run average of Camelot to start .
bed postal worker Richard Pavlick often voiced anti - Catholic opinion in his New Hampshire community , feel that Kennedy used his kinsfolk ’s fortune tobuythe 1960 election . Pavlick drew the attention of a local postmaster , Thomas Murphyn when heabandonedhis home and began to post Murphy post card from a number of spots across the United States , sites corresponding with public appearances made by JFK .
The Suicide Bomb Plan
On the morning of December 11th , 1960 , just timid of five weeks after his election , Kennedy prepared for church during an extended family vacation in Palm Beach , Florida . Pavlick load a 1950 Buick withseventotensticks ofdynamiteattached to a detonation twist and watched President - Elect Kennedy leave the Kennedy ’s holiday house on Sunday morning .
simple mindedness was the paint to Pavlick ’s design – in a world where suicide Italian sandwich were strange on United States grime , Pavlick intend to pound his Buick into Kennedy ’s railway car and detonate the dynamite . The result explosion would certainly have taken the lives of both world while destroying property for dozens of yards around the clank site .
Saved by Family
The sight of Kennedy ’s wife Jackie and children Caroline and John Jr. , as theyranto the car to see their father off forestall Pavlick from carrying out his self - assign mission . Pavlick only wanted to drink down the President - Elect , not his married woman or children , whom he believed innocent of any crimes .
Pavlick did not abandon his mission , however , as he proceed to stalk JFK while in Palm Beach , looking for another opportunity to kill the President - Elect . Pavlick searched St. Edwards Cathedral , looking for a a blank space to hit . Both Kennedy and Pavlick were in the house of worshipat the same time on at least one social occasion . Pavlick also monitored the actions of Kennedy ’s Secret Service agents , choosing stoppage in a Palm Beach motel withinfifty feetof Kennedy ’s protectors .
Pavlick ’s seizure
In the meantime , Postmaster Thomas Murphy see that Pavlick purchased dynamite and alerted authority . Secret Service agent found Pavlick four Day later on , when Palm Bach constabulary stopped the senior valet for atraffic violation and get a line the dynamite , enough to take out a city block , still in the Buick .
The taradiddle of the character assassination plot of land never get the news grip it merit , as the announcement of Pavlick ’s pinch go on on thesame dayas a mid - air hit between two planes over New York City which killed 132 rider and left a single,12 - year - old survivor .
Pavlick ’s attempt did not faze Kennedy , and the familycontinuedtheir vacation in Palm Beach throughout the Christmas vacation .
Pavlick confessed to the patch to kill Kennedy , but never faced test . Instead , he spent the next five years in a genial institution . Once discharge , Pavlick ferment his eye totormentingMurphy andself - publishedAn Innocent Man Illegally halt Spent Six long time in Hell : an autobiography of his life and the true story of an illegal stoppage , bill of indictment , and false charges . Pavlick passed away at the years of 88 , never spending a single day in prison for his architectural plan to kill a president .
Top double via theJohn F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum . Additional image of Kennedy in Palm Beach via theJohn F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum , newspaper figure via the The Spartanburg Herald , with the 1950 Buick imagevia . Sources linked within the clause .
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