INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Nazi Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes a true, little-known story about the first assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy, right before his inauguration.
Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States, is often ranked among Americans- most well-liked presidents. Yet what most Americans don-t know is that JFK-s historic presidency almost ended before it began-at the hands of a disgruntled sociopathic loner armed with dynamite.
On December 11, 1960, shortly after Kennedy-s election and before his inauguration, a retired postal worker named Richard Pavlick waited in his car-a parked Buick-on a quiet street in Palm Beach, Florida. Pavlick knew the president-elect-s schedule. He knew when Kennedy would leave his house. He knew where Kennedy was going. From there, Pavlick had a simple pla
