On this day, October 26, 1963, JFK rode in a rented open car in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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JFK in rented open car, Amherst, Mass. today 1963--lavish space between vehicles, motorcade route past grassy knoll, no Secret Service agents next to President's car, opposing random traffic allowed on adjoining lane of street.
Twenty-seven days before assassination in Dallas.

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Plan for JFK's open-car motorcade in Amherst, Mass., today 1963 shows astoundingly skimpy security:

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Another photograph of JFK in open car in Amherst, Mass., today 1963, showing how recklessly exposed he was to danger:

White House and Secret Service were gambling with JFK's security in Amherst, Mass., today 1963, even though it was exactly a year after Cuban Missile Crisis, which made a lot of Soviet and Cuban operatives and others very angry at the American President.

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Wed Oct 26, 2022: On this day, October 26, 1963, JFK was in a rented open car in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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1. Sleepy college town of its day

[justaprogressive]

2. Yes and because it ws in Massachusetts

NO ONE SHOT HIM DEAD.

[ificandream]

3. Exactly. We loved him in Massachusetts.

That's where I was living when he was shot. They loved the whole Kennedy family. The head of the Boston archdiocese Richard Cardinal Cushing was great friends with them. He was safe in Massachusetts. But reality hit on November 22.