Welcome to JFK and The Enduring Secret. I'm your host, Jeff Crudel. The The Hello everyone and welcome back to the podcast.

Today's episode is episode 209.

What would you say if I said there was not one, there was not two, there was not three,

there was not four, there was not five, there was not six, there was not seven, there was not eight.

Perhaps there was actually nine plots when you include Dallas to

assassinate President Kennedy. It's a little startling when you put it that way. And so it goes that we

truly couldn't leave this portion of episodes on the podcast, our study of the Secret Service, without taking a step back

and discussing the nature and the timing of these plots, and especially those that occurred in

late 1963, just a short time before the president's assassination in Dallas. Calling them

a plot is, perhaps misleading, of course, but it was done to make

you think about it for a second. Certainly, I am about to go through incidents in eight different cities,

cities where there was documented proof that an assassination attempt was being planned on the president's life and was

to be effectuated in that city. The term plots implies that they were all separate and distinct,

as if there were discrete forces at work in each of the locales, unconnected, except perhaps in their common hatred of the president.

But as we have come to learn, using the popular vernacular, that word, the plot,

well, it blinds us to the real significance of these eight drive-by episodes with fate

and what they tell us when we lay them all out side by side.

The real significance is that they had common characteristics, leading you to believe that they

were not separate and distinct plots, after all. No, no, no. Indeed, in most of these cases, the similarities are startling. And indeed, the common

shadow of whoever architected the dastardly plot to kill President Kennedy while it hangs heavy

over this combined collection of attempts. Sixty years later, it's easy to see the similarities and connections.

And I think a select group of people in the know at the FBI and the Secret Service saw it

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