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American History Tellers

Wondery

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, History, Education For Kids

4.7 • 18.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in his presidential limo through downtown Dallas. His violent and public death became one of the most traumatic moments in the nation’s history — and one of the most controversial, as Americans debated the mystery around his killer, Lee Harvey Oswald. The tragedy also thrust Vice President Lyndon Johnson into the White House, where he battled Kennedy’s brother Bobby for control of JFK’s legacy, and passed landmark legislation that would forever mark the tumultuous era.

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0:00.0	Wunderry Plus subscribers can binge new seasons of American history tellers early and
0:05.1	ad free right now. Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. Imagine it's the morning of November 21st, 1963.
0:20.0	Imagine it's the morning of November 21st, 1963.
0:24.0	You're a secret service agent, assigned to the team for President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie.
0:29.0	You're sitting at your small desk in a corner of the cramped White House map room which serves as an office
0:34.0	space for you and your fellow agents.
0:36.5	Spread across your desk are plans for the President's two-day trip to Texas.
0:40.9	As you scan the packed schedule, you add another cigarette but you're already
0:44.4	overflowing ashtray. The buzzer startles you, indicating the president,
0:49.7	cod named Lancer, is moving through the White House. And moments later he exits the elevator and waves a quick low.
0:57.0	You rise and nod as he whisked past.
1:00.0	Your fellow secret service agent Floyd Boring steps into the office and drops his briefcase.
1:05.0	You ready for this trip?
1:07.0	A dozen stops in four cities over 36 hours?
1:10.0	It's going to be fun.
1:11.0	But you know, I'm not sure about these motorcates.
1:13.9	What about them?
1:14.9	I think we should keep the hardtop on.
1:16.8	Well, Lancer told me earlier this week,
1:18.7	the election's a year away, but the campaign starts now.
1:21.8	So he wants them to see him and Jackie up close. Well yeah of
1:24.8	course I get it but it seems risky he's not even letting us put agents on the jump
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