20-06-2009, 07:09 AM
Hi, Peter,
They certainly had lots of warnings and near misses - Chicago, Miami, Tampa.
According to Horace Busby, it seemed that the Kennedy staff were pushing for the Dallas part of the trip.
From the text of Busby's book:
"The Kennedy advance men in charge of the visit were considering a far larger picture. It would be of considerable political value nationally to turn out a friendly parade route crowd for the president in the city which had been most hostile to him at the polls in 1960. The politics of John F. Kennedy overruled the politics of Lyndon B. Johnson in the decision to send the young president through the streets of downtown Dallas."
Adele
They certainly had lots of warnings and near misses - Chicago, Miami, Tampa.
According to Horace Busby, it seemed that the Kennedy staff were pushing for the Dallas part of the trip.
From the text of Busby's book:
"The Kennedy advance men in charge of the visit were considering a far larger picture. It would be of considerable political value nationally to turn out a friendly parade route crowd for the president in the city which had been most hostile to him at the polls in 1960. The politics of John F. Kennedy overruled the politics of Lyndon B. Johnson in the decision to send the young president through the streets of downtown Dallas."
Adele