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Richard Paul Pavlick (February 13, 1887 – November 11, 1975) was a retired postal worker [1] from New Hampshire who stalked Senator and U.S. president-elect John F. Kennedy, with the intent of assassinating him.
He was shot by John Wilkes Booth on the night of April 14, 1865, and died the following morning. [5] Sixteen years later, on July 2, 1881, James A. Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau, surviving for 79 days before dying on September 19, 1881. [6] On September 14, 1901, William McKinley died, eight days after being shot by Leon Czolgosz. [7]
John F. Kennedy's tenure as the 35th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 1961, and ended with his assassination on November 22, 1963. Kennedy, a Democrat from Massachusetts, took office following his narrow victory over Republican incumbent vice president Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election.
Both roads were renamed the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway a month later following his assassination. [16] On this same day, JFK privately informed Lyndon Johnson that he was not going to be vice president on the ticket. He told his secretary, Evelyn Lincoln that "he needed a vice president "who believes as I do." [17]
John F. Kennedy's assassination was the first of four major assassinations during the 1960s, coming two years before the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and five years before the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. [306] For the public, Kennedy's assassination mythologized him into a heroic figure. [307]
The love story between John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie, was far from perfect and was tragically cut short in 1963 by a sniper’s bullet. The last thing JFK said to Jackie before he died Skip ...
19 years, 191 days after 32nd president Franklin D. Roosevelt (died April 12, 1945) 333 days after 35th president John F. Kennedy (died November 22, 1963) 33rd president Harry S. Truman (died December 26, 1972) 9 years, 34 days after 35th president John F. Kennedy (died November 22, 1963)
Just seven weeks before the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the CIA intercepted a curious phone call to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.