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And if you want to consider something really weird, the president of South Vietanam was assassinated the same month at JFK.

Indeed. And on the same day that JFK was originally supposed to have been shot in Chicago:

Can you tell us more about these two attempts on JFK’s life just prior to Dallas and their connection to November 22nd?

As we were told by Chicago Secret Service Agent Abraham Bolden, they had uncovered a plot by four men to kill JFK during his Chicago motorcade planned for November 2, 1963. An ex-Marine (with several recent parallels to Oswald) was arrested, but the four men remained at large. So, JFK had to cancel his motorcade at the last minute, even as people were lining the motorcade route. Pierre Salinger told us about the two different excuses he gave for the cancellation. In addition, Salinger--who began his work for the Kennedys as a Mafia investigator--revealed that Jack Ruby had been in Chicago a week prior to the motorcade, where he had received $7,000 from someone who worked for an associate of Trafficante and Marcello. Salinger's revelation was confirmed by two eye-witnesses and FBI reports in the National Archives.

The Tampa attempt had more than a dozen parallels to JFK's assassination in Dallas, including a male suspect in his early twenties linked to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. The Police and Secret Service warned JFK about the threat, but JFK bravely went ahead with the motorcade anyway, because of an important speech about Cuba he had to give in Miami that night, a speech that was part of the coup plan.

Of course that would have made it very difficult for Lou Conein, the U.S. Army's and intelligence community's point of contact and paymaster for the Vietnamese coup plotters, to have also been in Dallas on the day JFK was killed. After all, you can't be in two places at once, but the exposure of the *Chicago team* that was to kill JFK on the same day as Diem caused enough of a delay [3 weeks] for Conein to utilize his professionally expertise in Dallas at well, earning him the #3 position at the Nixon-established DEA after his military retirement, two years after his introduction to Nixon at the white house by E. Howard Hunt.