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How Richard Nixon learned of John F Kennedy’s death
Richard Nixon found out his former election rival had been killed while waiting at a red light in New York.
When Stephen Hess arrived at Richard Nixon’s Manhattan apartment on the afternoon of November 22, 1963, the former vice president was visibly shaken.
Mr Nixon, who had so narrowly lost the presidency to John F Kennedy three years earlier, had just heard the news that had stunned the United States and the world: the president had been killed on a Dallas street.
“I was the first person Nixon could talk to, and I’d say he was shaky,” Mr Hess told The Daily Telegraph. “I assumed it was, sort of, ‘there but for the grace of God go I,’ after all he had lost the presidency by just a few votes to John Kennedy. But it was more complicated than that.”*************************************************
By a coincidence of history, Mr Nixon had been in Dallas earlier that day but took off to return to New York before the shooting took place.****************************************************************************
“When he got off the plane at LaGuardia airport in Queens, he took a taxi into Manhattan. It was then, at a red light, that the driver of another taxi shouted, ‘Hey did you hear that Kennedy’s been assassinated?’ That’s how Richard Nixon heard about it,” said Mr Hess.
So he had been there but left before the murder
Thanks for doing the research.
Watch LBJ’s mistress’ youtube videos. She asserted that Nixon was in on it and at the meetings of the biggies in Dallas behind it, earlier that week.
Thanks for posting!!