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TIL about Richard Paul Pavlick who stalked Senator and U.S. president-elect John F. Kennedy, with the intent of assassinating him by blowing up Kennedy and himself with dynamite, but delayed the attempt because Kennedy was with his wife Jacqueline and their two young children

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