n.+An+Unlikely+Story

= "Where were you the morning of November 22, 1963?" =

"I was at the...I mean I had to...uhh..." - a brief summary of Richard Nixon's alibi.
A strange series of events took place around JFK's assassination.

First of all, the New York Times already had a cover story planned, which was titled "Dallas." Why?

Second, Nixon was in Dallas the morning, and probably the moment, that JFK was killed. He and his representatives tried to conceal this fact for over 12 years. This would not be so monumental, except that Nixon purposely obscured his alibi over and over again.

His first story: Nixon was signing an article he had written for Reader's Digest. He left Dallas early on November 22 and did not even learn about JFK's death until a man told him on a street corner in New York. His second story: Nixon said, "I attended the Pepsi Cola convention [in Dallas] and left on Friday morning November 22, from Love Field, Dallas, on a flight back to New York...on arrival in New York we caught a cab and headed for the city the cabbie missed a turn somewhere and we were off the highway...a woman came out of her house screaming and crying. I rolled down the cab window to ask what the matter was and when she saw my face she turned even paler. She told me that John Kennedy had just been shot in Dallas." His third story: Nixon arrived at Idlewild Airport in New York, ironically now called JFK Airport, where he did a few interviews with reporters. After getting in a cab, one of the reporters informed him of the president's death.

Oh, how consistent of you, Richard Nixon.

What might have happened: Mr. Harvey Russell of the Pepsi Cola Company confirms his son's account that, "My father was an executive for the Pepsi Cola Company, and he was in Dallas on November 22, 1963 at that convention. He has told me that Nixon was there in Dallas at the convention when the announcement was heard that JFK had been killed, Nixon left later that afternoon."

Now that account seems pretty legitimate, but why would Nixon hide the truth if there were not more to his story, if he were not in some way involved with JFK's assassination?