Thursday, October 20, 2005
2/22: Never Forget!
From a list of presidential assassination attempts published in The Atlantic this month,
Richard Nixon (February 22, 1974). Two years after the Secret Service first investigated him for threats against Nixon, Samuel Byck shot his way past security and boarded a commercial airplane in Baltimore, intending to hijack it and fly into the White House. When informed that wheel blocks prevented takeoff, Byck shot the pilot and co-pilot and then killed himself.
Then there was a later president's National Security Advisor who advised,
I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.
- Condoleezza Rice, May 16, 2002
// posted by Erik @ 10/20/2005 11:58:00 PM
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