Recent Favorite: JFK Almost Assassinated (1960)

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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We’re re-running some favorite recent episodes this week, and will be back with brand new episodes very soon!

It’s December 15th. In 1960, a New Hampshire man lined his car with dynamite and planned to ram in to the limousine in which President-Elect John F Kennedy was riding. He ditched his plan at the last second, and was arrested shortly after. Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss the plot, the incredible way it was uncovered, and why Kennedy was the target of such hatred even before he took office.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone Jody here. Over the next few episodes we're going to bring you some recent favorite conversations
0:05.2	They're worth listening to again if you've already heard them and for many of you you'll be hearing them for the very first time
0:11.4	Look we're giving ourselves a little bit of a break
0:13.9	over the next week or so.
0:15.1	I'm at the TED conference all week,
0:17.0	doing some stuff related to that new series of mine, good sports.
0:20.6	Nicky and Kelly are in the home stretch of the academic year and most importantly our
0:25.5	researcher Jacob Feldman is getting married so a much deserved break and
0:30.0	congratulations to Jacob we're all very excited about that.
0:33.0	Okay, here we go with a recent favorite episode and we will be back very soon with
0:38.4	brand new episodes.
0:39.8	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.
0:46.7	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:50.4	This day, December 15, 1960, 73-year-old retired postal worker Richard Paul Pavlic is
0:58.2	arrested for a plot to assassinate President-elect John F. Kennedy had just been elected in that year's election.
1:06.4	On December 11th in Palm Beach, Pavlic lined his car with dynamite and parked outside of Kennedy's compound waiting for him to leave for Sunday mass.
1:16.4	His plot was to ram his car into JFK's limo as the president to be left his home, killing
1:22.0	everyone inside. The plan did not pan out, as we know, and as we'll discuss in a minute.
1:27.6	But this was, of course, just under three years before Kennedy would be assassinated in Dallas. So let's talk about the would be
1:34.7	assassination of JFK and lots more about this transition era going into
1:40.0	the 60s. Here as always, Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of
1:44.8	Wellesley hello there. Hello Jody hey there. Lots of interesting details in
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