November 20, 1963 - President Kennedy Is Warned - Again - About Dallas

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**This site has been posting news about President Kennedy and others as it would have occurred each day leading up to November 22. It is fascinating and ominous especially in hindsight.
All I can say is that President Kennedy and others received warnings from every quarter about Dallas. They came from reliable sources. In addition, Oswald was not some unknown entity. He had made it to the radar of people who could have acted.
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President Kennedy, complaining about the slow legislative process, tells Congressional leaders: “Things always look so much better away from Washington.”

Some lawmakers expressed concern that President Kennedy might encounter trouble in Dallas. U.N. Ambassador Stevenson had been attacked there on Oct. 24, and House Whip Hale Boggs told JFK: “Mr. President, you’re going into quite a hornet’s nest.”

Kennedy replied: “well, that always creates interesting crowds.”

It is the latest in a long line of warnings about Dallas. In the wake of the White House announcement that President Kennedy would visit Texas, there were expressions of concern - even alarm - about his safety there; It is notable that those who knew Dallas best were the ones who were most concerned. A sampling
Senator Ralph Yarborough's two brothers, both Dallas lawyers, sent him almost identical letters warning of widedspread local hatred for President Kennedy.
White House press secretary Pierre Salinger receieved a letter from a Dallas woman: "Don't let the President come down here. I'm worried about him. I think something terrible will happen to him," she wrote.
U.S. District Judge Sarah T. Hughes feared an incident of some sort.
U.S. Attorney H. Barefoot Sanders, the ranking Justice Department official in that part of Texas and Vice-President Johnson's point man in Dallas, told senior LBJ advisor Cliff Carter that the trip was "inadvisable."
"I think we ought to see whether we can persuade President Kennedy to change his mind about visiting Dallas," Stanley Marcus (of the upscale Nieman-Marcus department store) told fellow executives. “Frankly, I don’t think this city is safe for it.”

And President Kennedy was personally warned as well by a close friend, Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Arkansas), who told him “Dallas is a very dangerous place. I wouldn’t go there. Don’t you go.”

The President was not looking forward to the trip - telling friend Dave Powers on Nov. 18 that he hated visiting Texas and that he had a terrible feeling about going. Mrs. Kennedy also said that she would "hate every minute of it."
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[gopiscrap]

1. this is why I firmly believe that the right wing

orchestrated the assassination and set Oswald up!

[warrior1]

2. I was 8 when the President came to Dallas

I was living outside of John Connelly AFB when he was assassinated and I remember seeing on our front porch, the treason poster for the president.

FYI: House Whip Hale Boggs and another rep was killed in a small plane in Alaska a few years later.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

3. Texas is a big place. I spent a couple of years down there.

I don't mean to use a broad brush, a small brush will do. Texas still serves as home to a lot of strange folks. Things haven't changed that much.