Valkyrie at Dealey Plaza

[Phil Dagosto]

The Kennedy's (in some respects) almost had a death-wish and were reckless and careless about security to a ridiculous degree. Both JFK and RFK made things very easy for their assassins.

Please justify this claim with verifiable evidence. JFK was set up by stripping his security as documented by Vince Palamara and the incompetence (and perhaps, at a high level, complicity) of the SS. Palamara has debunked the myth about JFK ordering the SS agents off the back of the limo. The death wish stuff is a lazy narrative promulgated by hack authors and media types. Because of his health issues and close brushes with death by natural causes JFK had a clear sense of his own mortality and as president, of his own vulnerability to overthrow and assassination. That doesn't equate to a death wish.

RFK did not have SS protection as a candidate (his assassination led to that) and probably distrusted the SS after his brother's assassination and there's considerable evidence that so-called security guards contributed to or participated in his assassination. I'm at a loss to understand how you equate this to making "things easy" for his assassins. What do you imagine he could have done differently?