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In 1960, a Would-Be Assassin Tracked JFK to His Holiday Home

This wasn’t Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 but one Richard Pavlick in 1960—a retired postal worker who tried to blow up Kennedy in his Palm Beach home.

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