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Raven Rock and the presidential succession of 1963

Raven Rock and the presidential succession of 1963

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Jefferson Morley
Dec 17, 2019
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Dan Alcorn illuminates an underappreciated aspect of November 22, 1963. President Kennedy and his government had been preparing for a succession emergency for some time.

When President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, our nuclear weapons system would have needed urgently to know who was in command, and when word of the President’s death came, the system would…

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