JFK TALKS ABOUT BEST WAY TO DIE
West Palm Beach, Florida (JFK+50) On November 17, 1963, President John F. Kennedy spent his last Sunday at the family home here in West Palm Beach. The President began his day by attending mass at St. Ann's Church.
Thurston Clarke tells us that in the afternoon JFK, with close friend Torbert Macdonald*, watched the Bears vs. Packers football game out on the patio.
After the game, while swimming together, JFK and Macdonald began talking about their fear of being "incapacitated by a stroke as (both) of their fathers had been."
Torby asked the President how he would like to die. JFK responded...
"Oh, a gun. You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way."
*Torbert Hart Macdonald (1917-1976) was born in Everett, Massachusetts & educated at Harvard University & Harvard Law School. THM served in WWII & was awarded the Silver Star & Purple Heart. He served in the U.S. Congress 1955-1976.
SOURCE
"JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President," by Thurston Clarke, The Penguin Press, New York, 2013.
West Palm Beach, Florida (JFK+50) On November 17, 1963, President John F. Kennedy spent his last Sunday at the family home here in West Palm Beach. The President began his day by attending mass at St. Ann's Church.
Thurston Clarke tells us that in the afternoon JFK, with close friend Torbert Macdonald*, watched the Bears vs. Packers football game out on the patio.
After the game, while swimming together, JFK and Macdonald began talking about their fear of being "incapacitated by a stroke as (both) of their fathers had been."
Torby asked the President how he would like to die. JFK responded...
"Oh, a gun. You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way."
*Torbert Hart Macdonald (1917-1976) was born in Everett, Massachusetts & educated at Harvard University & Harvard Law School. THM served in WWII & was awarded the Silver Star & Purple Heart. He served in the U.S. Congress 1955-1976.
SOURCE
"JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President," by Thurston Clarke, The Penguin Press, New York, 2013.
Torbert Macdonald
Congressional Pictorial Directory
93rd Congress
U.S. Government Printing Office (1973)
