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JFK Played an Assassinated President Just Two Months Before Dallas

JFK Played an Assassinated President Just Two Months Before Dallas

A prankish home movie, overseen by Jackie Kennedy, portrayed a ketchup-strewn JFK pretending to be dead

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Still from home movie showing President Kennedy’s WWII brother in arms and Under Secretary of the Navy, Paul “Red” Fay, bloodied by ketchup

In a surreal and macabre coincidence, just two months before meeting his death in a fusillade of gunfire, President John F. Kennedy starred in a home movie — directed by the First Lady and featuring Secret Service a…

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