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Plot Hole: How did killer know the train was arriving?

posted 12 years ago by bluekarma06
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Seems to suggest to me that the "people" paying Frank's character to assassinate the President were INSIDERS who wanted him taken out. How else would a 2-bit punk wannabe anti-hero know the whereabouts of the most powerful man of the planet? Just like the JFK conspiracies, many people to this day think it was an inside job. Some suggest CIA or even the FBI(J Edgar hated the Kennedy's). Some say Mafia(and you got to believe the mafia had paid connections in the White House).

So, how did he know the train with the President was coming and that it would stop in Suddenly?

[–] Jason_Radley 12 years ago

It's hardly a plot hole, it's just not explained. Yes, the plotters could be insiders, as you put it, or, more likely, they have a mole who's on the inside feeding them info.

[–] liscarkat-2 10 years ago

Whenever any president goes anywhere, its publicized all over the place. They talk about it on the radio all day because of the traffic closure inconvenience. My dad has a snapshot he took in 1936 when he was ten years old of FDR passing through town. He waited by the train station for hours to see the president. He knew about it because it had been mentioned on the radio and in the local newspaper.

In the 1950s he worked at a radio station in San Bernardino, California. Presidents still occasionally traveled by train, and when President Eisenhower came through town my dad was assigned to go to the train station and interview him during a short stop. Everybody knew about it.

[–] paulr03 9 years ago

In 1962 my dad and I were on the Congress (now Eisenhower) expressway in Chicago. 'Suddenly' (lol) all traffic was stopped and we were directed to park on the shoulder. JFK and Richard J. Daley Drove right by. Going about 30 mph I got a good look at the president. Quite a memory!