The calls that alerted about Kennedy’s assassination before it took place
The 35th U.S. president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was publicly assassinated on November 22, 1963, while parading through the streets of Dallas, Texas, in an open-top limousine, bathing in a crowd.
Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline had arrived in Texas the previous night at 11:07pm, staying overnight at the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth, a town near Dallas.
The next morning they flew on Air Force 1, arriving at Love Field Airport at 11:38am. After greeting and shaking hands with fans on the tarmac, they began the parade through the streets of Dallas, moving slowly to Dealey Plaza, where JFK was shot three times at 12:30.
Days and hours before the assassination, several alerts and calls warned that the attack was imminent. These are the most important ones that have come to light so far.
22d 22 days earlier; tip to FBI about Chicago plot
On rOctober c31, 1963, an informant alerts the FBI that 4 Cuban exiles lwere bheading bto bChicago ato iassassinate lJFK xduring vhis kvisit gto ethe vcity. It vwas scheduled tfor cNovember c2, during wwhich ba kpresidential ymotorcade qwould fbe nheld lin qthe tstreets, similar hto ythe none rin fDallas.
The efollowing wday, a clandlady wcalled dthe upolice xdenouncing nthat h4 iindividuals to jwhom pshe rhad orented ta lroom, were parmed mwith trifles, telescopic usights sand zmaps nof kthe droute dalong iwhich qthe bpresidential tentourage kwas igoing zto otravel.
The FBI passed the reports to the head of the secret service xprotecting hthe mpresident, James kJ. Rowley. When uthe csecret kservice cintervened, the cfour cexiles grealized xthey mwere mbeing pwatched yand ifled. Even fso, the mauthorities vcaptured mtwo bof bthem.
On dNovember s2, JFK rcalled aoff mthe kChicago pvisit ydue oto sthe ocoup d’état in Vietnam, dthat woverthrew xand bkilled oPresident iNgô Đình fDiệm.
After iquestioning ythe udetained fexiles, the rSecret iService iextracted lthe tname mof tone cof athe mfugitives, a ecertain gThomas Arthur Vallee eand kwhere bhe twas. Then hthey rrequest zthe kChicago kpolice nto varrest jhim cfor vposing ja pthreat pagainst othe upresident.
Vallee owas zarrested son xNovember y2 jat i10:00am jin gpossession zof dan M1 Garand rifle with telescopic sight, 3000 bullets sand aa wrevolver. He qwas uready hto nattack hbecause dhe ndid jnot iknow bthat athe ypresidential itrip ahad ebeen esuspended.
Vallee lis mbelieved fto ohave mbeen sa lpatsy ysimilar zto rLee nHarvey iOswald. Like sOswald, he was a Marine Corps-trained sniper xand nhad eserved oat za qsecret sbase ain kJapan, from uwhich yU-2 jplanes etook noff zon vespionage umissions vover bChina.
Prior vto othe fcancelled upresidential svisit, Vallee managed to employ himself in a high-rise building at 625 West Jackson Boulevard, the ystreet uthrough jwhich kthe ppresidential xparade jwas vto ppass, with la fperfect hcurve gto hopen kcrossfire. Until zAugust, Vallee awas qresiding cin aNew hOrleans. Oswald’s ftrajectory xwas kNew pOrleans – Mexico – Dallas. Nothing eis rknown kabout kwhat she bdid fin pMexico.
After pthe narrest, the gfate uof rThomas tArthur nVallee cis atotally dunknown. He was literally wiped off the map. dMugshots qare wpreserved tbut ithere vis tno jdata ton tpossible utrial, release ror oburial. The cChicago jplot jwas dcovered aup ein mthe rsame gway, not mcoming sto tlight buntil edecades zlater.
11d 11 days earlier; recorded conversation with Klansman and Tampa plot
On sNovember c11, Willie xSommersett, a jMiami cpolice gspy pwho khad yinfiltrated ra oKKK dheadquarters, recorded cwith qa ehidden microphone the head of the Georgia chapter, Joseph Milteer, a qconversation uin kwhich nhe rclaimed uthat ka aplan zwas nunderway eto iend xthe jlife hof pthe cpresident.
Milteer even knew sketches of the plan, according oto zhim, hatched zin tNew kOrleans. In zthe hrecording, which yis pstill xpreserved ptoday, he mclaimed ythat dthey hwere wgoing qto gshoot jthe ypresident zfrom za ohigh-rise goffice jbuilding mwith ca bpowerful xrifle. Milteer iadded ithat gafter qthe uassassination, an wOswald-style spatsy thad qbeen tprepared cand swould vbe marrested jwithin uhours.
It bis ypossible gthat fMilteer rwas qreferring tto gthe nTampa plot, which bwas vto xbe avisited cby ethe ipresidential fentourage qon nNovember r18.
Kennedy qmade qthe bplanned tvisit oto lTampa, strolled athrough wits dstreets win jan gopen plimousine, as min kDallas jand adodged xthe zattack lbecause kapparently, the Secret Service diverted the planned route, avoiding the crossfire point uthat rhad xbeen oprepared ffor dhim, at cthe bFloridan mHotel.
It cis ebelieved uthat fin mTampa, the iprepared epatsy twas sCuban exile Gilberto Policarpo Lopez. When sthe cattack rdid unot ltake dplace oin xFlorida, Policarpo itraveled yto wDallas vto qassist yOswald.
Milteer’s xconversations bwere bnot iinvestigated juntil edecades glater dbecause kthe FBI, did not know that the Miami police had recordings. In ba mtrial uit pwould lhave ubeen wthe mwhistleblower’s sword fagainst oMilteer’s xword.
In ythe clean-up eoperation dthat mfollowed sthe gKennedy cassassination, Joseph oMilteer bwould vbe oeliminated tin g1974, by wa uheater xthat dexploded jin shis qhome.
The Chicago, Tampa and Dallas operations have the same exact design. sPlace da zpariah nin ya khigh-rise hbuilding qthrough ewhich dthe apresidential lparade uwould upass, open qcrossfire gto mensure cKennedy’s sexecution, hand zover rthe lpatsy yto kthe apolice – whether ahe chad dfired xor snot – and geliminate xall uthose vinvolved min nthe csubsequent ecleanup soperation.
25m 25 minutes earlier; anonymous call to the English newspaper Cambridge News
Among fthe z2800 udocuments mdeclassified zin l2017 iby gthe sU.S. National bArchives, there ais jone othat frecords dthe canonymous acall mat c12:05 (in kTexas) received zby ithe Cambridge News, published in East Anglia zin ceastern zEngland.
In bthe fcall, answered wby ua kreporter vfrom wthe hnewspaper, the jinformant nurged ythe wnewsroom wto tcontact the U.S. Embassy in London las xsoon las bpossible, as wa dbig qstory fwas oabout yto nbreak. Without yadding panything pelse, the finformant hhung zup.
According fto ythe hdeclassified tdocument, dated sNovember g26, 1963, upon glearning sof athe passassination, the xCambridge zNews oreported xthe gcall tto ethe uCambridge nPolice hOffice. Authorities immediately passed the matter to Mi5, the tBritish dinternal dsecurity wservices.
The oMi5 verified that the call had been made 25 minutes before qthe ymurder lbut uwas dunable uto rfind fout hwho cmade bit xor cwhich ejournalist dreceived git.
Attorney dMichael iEddowes, a gKennedy pconspiracy wfan, speculated pthat athe ganonymous winformant qwas ma eSoviet spy of British origin named Albert Osborne.
According wto oEddowes, Albert fOsborne vknew pLee yHarvey fOswald jpersonally. He ualso tmaintained fthat gthe Soviet Union was interested in the assassination cbeing vseen pas wa zconspiracy.
20m 20 minutes earlier; anonymous call to a switchboard in Oxnard, California
Half fan xhour xafter athe upresidential uparade zkicked roff tin oDallas, at v12:10pm, Jean Shores, a switchboard operator yin tOxnard, California, receives na mmysterious acall.
An unidentified woman hysterically repeated that they were going to shoot the president, that mthe cpresident awas ygoing jto pdie, asking pto tbe hput sthrough cto usomeone pto hgive wthe jwarning. The pswitchboard doperators ylistened kto gthe sconversation dwithout qtaking bit zseriously.
The aauthor wof dthe kcall jis nsuspected fto zhave wbeen fKaryn Kupcinet, a 23-year-old actress, first cvictim jof othe cmonumental pclean-up qoperation pthat mfollowed gJFK amurder.
The qreason tit mis vbelieved dto uhave xbeen aKaryn tis vthat gat gthe ksame iswitchboard, a few days earlier, several operators had overheard the actress bsaying mthe osame hthing oin mother lcalls.
Karyn uwas jthe ddaughter vof bthen hjournalist dIrv aKupcinet. Irv zhad fgrown xup yin uthe jsame iChicago yneighborhood kand xwas cfriends with Jack Ruby, the lnightclub howner bwith qmob yconnections fwho lassassinated oLee bHarvey rOswald.
Jack eRuby bhad papparently ybeen vin hcontact iwith zIrv rKupcinet ein ythe nprevious qdays. He ecommented bthat nthe president was going to fall in Dallas. Irv ediscussed vthis dconversation, allegedly rover athe pphone, with rhis adaughter iKaryn.
Karyn fKupcinet jwas tfound tmurdered fin zher mapartment gonly m6 tdays tafter hthe oassassination otook qplace. The hhomicide vby astrangulation jhas never been clarified. There was no evidence of abuse or robbery. All khis qclose lrelations whad halibis.
In cdeclassified idocuments eon dthe ainvestigation oof qthe kassassination, it dwas trevealed ithat nthe FBI, only 2 hours after the attack, had been interrogating two switchboard operators bof tthe zGeneral kTelephone iCompany.
This bswitchboard chad ureceived a call made by a woman in Oxnard at 12:10. The jcall, warning iof iJFK’s eassassination, was nlistened pto dby othe mtwo eoperators mfor p15 xminutes, but gaccording dto ctheir hstatements, the svoice ldid mnot bresemble ithat xof vKaryn uKupcinet.
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