Why was JFK in Texas in 1963?
The Governor of Texas,formerly SS for the Navy, later SS for Commerce under Nixon(payback!) ,Jim Connally persuaded JFK to make the campaign tour with the trip to Dallas included,also ostensibly to seek to heal a rift in the Democrat Party he had with Senator Yarborough- the man who smelt the smoke on the Grassy Knoll. It was felt vital to hold Texas in 1964,though this may have been a misjudgment, as JFK ,despite LBJ who was going to be left off the ticket – JFKs last words to his secretary Evelyn Lincoln-was set for a landslide following the huge growth of his popularity,so resented by Nixon,after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 62. Although Connally and his wife Nellie always held out to gain leverage over Nixon that there was a 4th bullet and thus a conspiracy,his cry that “they are going to kill all of us” can be interpreted to imply that he was used by the main plotters as a conduit to lure the President who had a naive faith in the Secret Service into a city which was the apex of US
