Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts, Part 2: JFK

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The only president to be assassinated in the last century was John F. Kennedy. What caused this failure in the Secret Service's typical protection procedures? Was it a perfect storm of bad luck, a lapse in judgement in the protection detail, or something far more nefarious, as conspiracy theorists have insisted for five decades?

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast.
0:05.4	The unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes, Mythbust's historical lies, and rediscoveres
0:11.9	the forgotten stories that changed our world.
0:15.5	I'm your host, Scott Rank.
0:23.1	Welcome back to our series on presidential assassinations where we're looking at unsuccessful
0:27.4	and successful attempts to take out a president.
0:30.3	In the last episode, I talked about the psychology that goes behind would be presidential assassins,
0:35.8	how many of them are failed upstarts in life and trying to seek a shortcut to glory.
0:40.9	There are surprisingly few people who are motivated just by politics and ideology.
0:45.8	Usually there's a little bit of that, but it's politics and ideology mixed in with mental
0:50.6	illness and a desperate desire for notoriety.
0:54.0	We also looked at attempts on the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the last episode and
0:58.7	how there were many near misses that hadn't been for a few things going a different way,
1:03.2	or for a bullet traveling two feet to the left or to the right.
1:07.3	FDR could have very well been assassinated in office, like any president, there were
1:11.1	hundreds of not thousands of death threats against him, and some people got surprisingly
1:15.1	close.
1:16.4	In this episode, we're going to look at JFK.
1:19.7	Why was he successfully assassinated?
1:22.6	Was it because the Cold War was heating up and due to tensions with the Soviet Union,
1:27.4	there were more attempts on his life?
1:29.5	Was it simply dumb luck?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from History Unplugged, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of History Unplugged and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.