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TIL that on the day of his death, having been warned that it would be dangerous to visit Texas, JFK said to his wife “We’re heading into nut country today. But Jackie, if somebody wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it, so why worry about it?”
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This doesn’t sound real
Today you got lied to?
Quote is disputed and it is highly unlikely he said those words. He probably said something less direct and more passive like but it’s not unimaginable he talked about the chance of being assasinated.
VP Country.
Kennedy was shot by a Communist who tried to defect to the Soviet Union.
Texas is the reason