The JFK assassination though was a result of just pure idiocy and arrogance. Arrogance from assuming everyone loved him, and idiocy for allowing him to not only ride through the streets in an open convertible, but to incredibly publicize the exact route he would be taking the day before allowing any assassin to plan in advance. Its so insanely reckless that sometimes i wonder if there was in fact a conspiracy.
Dallas was especially known for its anti-JFK mood. It voted heavily for Nixon in ‘60 (despite LBJ stealing the state with voter fraud) and had a high-profile Conservative GOP Congressman who was viscerally ant-JFK (Bruce Alger). The equivalent for Trump today would be like riding around San Francisco (or in Maxine “Muddy” Waters’s Watts/South-Central District in L.A.) in an open convertible, a place chock full of reactionary leftist deranged moonbats. Hell, that was where Ford got shot while in office.
JFK rode around in an open car for years, it was a campaign tactic. He was a reckless man, and always got away with everything. Until his luck ran out.