President John F Kennedy ridiculed the idea of being shot – just three years before he was assassinated.
Following the 1960 election he told one of his aides that Secret Service security was excessive and he was not at risk.
Kennedy insisted: ‘They’re making me uncomfortable. Nobody is going to shoot me, so tell them to relax.’
In November 1963, however, Kennedy was gunned down by Lee Harvey Oswald in an assassination that would change the course of history.
Kennedy’s concerns emerged in a series of audio tapes made in the 1960s by his aide Kenneth O’Donnell and recently unearthed by O’Donnell’s daughter.
The tapes also include an eerie premonition from Kennedy about his son, John Jnr, and how his love of flying could end in disaster.
He said: ‘John (Jr) loved helicopters.
‘He would race over and get on a helicopter, and when it was time for us to leave, he refused to get out of it.
‘The poor Secret Service would take John kicking and squabbling off the helicopter or the plane.
‘The president said to me: ‘The real question I’m going to have to face is when he’s old enough and wants to learn to fly’’.
In 1999 his father’s concern proved accurate when JFK Jr died in a plane crash.
John F Kennedy was shot dead whilst his motorcade drove though Dallas in Texas on November 22 1963, sparking a string of conspiracy theories.
They centered around the idea of a second shooter who may have fired on the president as well as Oswald.
