The forgotten JFK assassination plot
Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch shine a light on a little-known attempt to assassinate John F Kennedy in December 1960

In December 1960, as president-elect John F Kennedy made his way to church in Florida, a would-be assassin waited nearby, preparing to detonate a bomb that would end the Democrat's presidency before it began. Elinor Evans speaks to Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch, authors of The JFK Conspiracy, to discuss this little-known assassination attempt, and what it tells us about tensions in the United States at the time of his election.
Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch are the authors of The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy - And Why It Failed (Flatiron Books, 2025).
Authors

Elinor Evans is digital editor of HistoryExtra.com. She commissions and writes history articles for the website, and regularly interviews historians for the award-winning HistoryExtra podcast