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In November 1963, just before he was scheduled to make a political trip to Dallas, due to a flare up of tensions along the Berlin Wall and between East and West Germany, the President cancelled his trip to Dallas. But his Texas born VP, Lyndon Johnson went and a bullet hit him and he was taken to Parkland Hospital where he died.
Kennedy and Khruschev were able to calm things down on the German borders as the country mourned the Vice President's death.
But things were not going well in the White HOuse. Jacqueline Kennedy did not file for divorce, but do to her husbands indiscretions, quietly moved herself and the children to an apartment in New York. She still would come to Washington for some State Dinners and the like, but she and Jack were through.
Speculate on what else might have occurred in the Kennedy years, 1960-1968