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President John F Kennedy predicted his own assassination, told Jackie O

Previously unreleased interviews reveal US president confided in his wife about his prediction

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Published Monday, June 10, 2013, 8:39 AM

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President John F Kennedy’s secret interviews with his wife claim he warned his assassination would safeguard his legacy around a year before his death.

JFK made the prediction about his reputation privately to his wife Jackie.

Previously unheard conversations involving the First lady in the months after JFK’s assassination, which are due to be made public in September, reveal the president’s theory.

The conversations date back to 1964 when Jacqueline Kennedy had in depth conversations with historian Arthur M Schlesinger Jnr .

Professor Robert Dallek, a popular Kennedy historian made the discovery after closely examining pages of “Jacqueline Kennedy’s Oral History”.

“(JFK) said to Mrs Kennedy after his success in the Cuban Missile Crisis: ’If anyone’s going to kill me, it should happen now,”’ Professor Dallek said.

Dallek said JFK had been told by a historian that Abraham Lincoln’s legacy may not have been as great if he had lived longer.

“He had heard a lecture at the White House by distinguished historian David Herbert Donald, a Lincoln, Civil War expert,” Prof. Dallek said.

“At that lecture, Kennedy asked Professor Donald if Lincoln had lived, would his reputation be as great as it currently is in the United States? And predictably, Donald said probably not because he would have had to have wrestle with the problems of reconstruction, the post Civil War era.

“And Kennedy remembering that said to Mrs Kennedy after his success in the Cuban Missile Crisis, if anyone’s going to kill me, it should happen now.

The democratic president was shot on November 22, 1963 as his open-top motorcade travelled through Dallas, Texas.

After his death, his wife gave seven undisclosed interviews during which she spoke about her husband’s involvement in the Cuban Missille Crisis; her role as First Lady; the presidents plan for a second term and family and married life in the White House.

To mark the 50 anniversary of the Kennedy administration, the family are realeasing both the interview transcripts and the original audio recordings.

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curtisjohnson | Feb 02, 2013, 10:53 AM EST

hermitTalker – “The puritanical hang-ups with sex has been an awful cloud over the JFK legacy, and has daunted every politician. Get a woman in bed or send her a nude photo and you are dead politically. Start a war and spend trillions and destroy a nation and get millions killed and... you know the drill.Absolutely crazy moral code of conduct.” Great points. You also have an alcoholic terrorist like Churchill who advocates using chemical weapons on “brown people” considered as the bell weather for british morality. There’s still a huge statue of cromwell outside the house of commons and they worship mass murderers and rapist like raleigh. A sharp contrast to the anglo-sphere’s constant hit jobs on JFK and his father and brother.

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johnshiel | Feb 01, 2013, 10:22 AM EST

brengun - what flavor of koolaid is that, exactly? seems pretty strong...

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johnshiel | Feb 01, 2013, 10:21 AM EST

brengun - what flavor of koolaid is that, exactly? seems pretty strong...

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johnshiel | Feb 01, 2013, 10:20 AM EST

brengun - what flavor of koolaid is that, exactly?

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johnshiel | Feb 01, 2013, 10:20 AM EST

brengun - what flavor of koolaid is that, exactly?

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johnshiel | Feb 01, 2013, 10:20 AM EST

brengun - what flavor of koolaid is that, exactly?

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johnshiel | Feb 01, 2013, 10:20 AM EST

brengun - what flavor of koolaid is that, exactly?

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EphraimKibbey | Jan 31, 2013, 03:50 PM EST

hermitTalker - That's why the signs said "MAKE LOVE NOT WAR." Oh, when will they ever learn... - not yet apparently.

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Fran Connor | Jan 31, 2013, 10:11 AM EST

He also said "Ask not...etc." He'wouldn't be acceprted in his old party today.

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darao | Oct 04, 2012, 02:38 PM EDT

any other news or thoughts from fifty years ago you want to share? Must be a slow day in the news world.

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wizardofoz | Sep 21, 2012, 03:22 PM EDT

JFK, was the last hope for America. He was the last patriot to occupy the Whitehouse. They murdered him in broad day light and it was caught on camera as a warning to all presidents therafter."Do as your are told, or else". The same evil runs America to day. A mixture of Mossad, CIA and the Jewish Mafia murdered Kennedy. The same crime syndicate run the US to day that's why you are ensconced in unwinnable wars in the mid east. The same criminals will march you to war with Iran and then.....goodnight Irene! The same criminals have robbed you blind and got clean away with it, not one Bankster, has been held to account, for the greatest robbery in history. Zionists rule!

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hermitTalker | Apr 28, 2012, 10:22 AM EDT

The puritanical hang-ups with sex has been an awful cloud over the JFK legacy, and has daunted every politician. Get a woman in bed or send her a nude photo and you are dead politically. Start a war and spend trillions and destroy a nation and get millions killed and... you know the drill.Absolutely crazy moral code of conduct.

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brengun | Jan 04, 2012, 12:09 PM EST

yeh, JFK represented something they could not, despite all the criticism of his human weakness, he had something they feared he had soul and it radiated charisma, and in the end it was that ,his natural appeal as an educated and civilised man that the rightwing junta of the old stinking order couldn,t deal with only in their timehonoured way, to kill it , just look at the of corpses that followed in his wake, it was really that glimmer of hope for the masses of capitalist America that initiated the beauty of the sixties, which the monsters of the dying system dare not allow.

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themurphia | Aug 09, 2011, 06:44 PM EDT

kevinjomlor:YES!WHAT is it..?!

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kevinjomlor | Aug 08, 2011, 03:37 PM EDT

It all makes sense, JFK wasn't stupid. However, you're ALL missing the motive. There in lies the key to the mystery and no one's got it yet. Wanna know?

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