Assassin attempt had bomb close to Kennedy in 1960

[RamboLiberal]

I never heard this one - any heard of this? Interesting tidbit from history.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03326/242713.stm

On a bright Sunday morning nearly 43 years ago, a ramshackle Buick crept through the streets of Palm Beach, Fla., toward a sprawling, Mediterranean-style mansion. At the wheel was a disheveled, silver-haired madman. His aged right hand rested near a switch wired to seven sticks of dynamite.

Inside the two-story stucco home was his target -- President-elect John F. Kennedy -- readying for morning Mass.

Richard Pavlick stopped a short distance from the house and waited, unnoticed by U.S. Secret Service agents outside.

It was decades before today's proliferation of suicide bombers, but Pavlick's plan on Dec. 11, 1960, was as simple: ram the president-elect's car and detonate the dynamite, research by The Blade of Toledo, Ohio, showed.

Pavlick's suicide note had been written to the people of the United States, reading in part: "It is hoped by my actions that a better country ... has resulted."

[NJCher]

1. Richard Pavlick, The First Freeper?

Cher

[stevedeshazer]

2. Hmmm

I've got no memory of this, either. Interesting.

[Octafish]

3. First I heard, too. Thanks! BTW: What was Raymond doing with his hands?

"Oh. How I was so lovable then, Ben."

[Maccagirl]

4. I read that he didn't do it

because JFK came out of the house with Caroline.