CLINT HILL R.I.P. 1932-2025
SPECIAL VIDEO
Clint Hill 1932-2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt_RIuZtww0
Author of 7 books: "Survivor's Guilt: The Secret Service and the Failure to Protect President Kennedy", "JFK: From Parkland to Bethesda", "The Not-So-Secret Service: Agency Tales from FDR To the Kennedy Assassination to The Reagan Era", "Who's Who in The Secret Service", "Honest Answers About the Murder of President John F. Kennedy", "The Plot to Kill President Kennedy in Chicago" and "President Kennedy Should Have Survived Dallas."
CLINT HILL R.I.P. 1932-2025
SPECIAL VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt_RIuZtww0
BORGOTA: CLASH OF TITANS- A History of the American Mafia by
Louis Ferrante (2025)
Bibliography- 6 books reference my work:
Murder in Dealey Plaza by Prof. James Fetzer (Catfeet
Press, 2000)- I have two whole chapters.
Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi (W.W. Norton &
Co., 2007)- I am on 15 pages including the bibliography.
The Kennedy Detail by Gerald Blaine with Lisa McCubbin
(Gallery Books, 2010)- I am referenced on 2 pages.
The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ by Roger
Stone (Skyhorse, 2013)- I am mentioned in the paperback edition.
Brothers by David Talbot (Free Press, 2008)- I am on a
couple pages.
David Ferrie by Judyth Baker
(Trine Day, 2014)- I am on at least one page.
Secret Service SAIC Gerald Behn:
Page 200- Behn to Sorrels: “It’s a plot.” “Of
course.” I also referenced this in my work; both got it from Manchester.
Pages 327-329 (references Curry’s book, Lawson’s WC
testimony, Blaine)- Winston Lawson- top off limo. Hill and Ready told not to
ride on rear of limo. Planned number of vehicles and their relative order. Felt
that 8 motorcycles around limo was too much---2 on either side even with rear
fender of limo. Other motorcycles pushed rearward. Press vehicle/photographers
bumped to rear of motorcade.
Dallas police told to stand with backs to crowd. (Curry) Supervision
ended one block short of Elm Street. Security comparatively light on Elm- freak
of history.
Motorcade 90-degree turn onto Elm Street last minute change
that slowed the limo to a crawl. Short stretch of Elm Street and the Book
Depository were virtually ignored.
Evelyn Lincoln, 1968 book- our own advance man urged that
the motorcade not take the route that it did but was overruled. Lawson during
WC testimony- motorcade thru plaza “wanted back in Washington, D.C.”
(Blaine book) Behn- first vacation, yet decided to work at
his office in D.C. Agent Ron Pontius could not believe that his fellow agents
were prohibited from riding on the rear of the limo. Called Behn who confirmed.
Agent Bert de Freese, who overheard conversation, said: “I thought Behn was on
vacation.” Former Chief Baughman called Behn’s actions into question. Behn
became LBJ’s SAIC.
Secret Service stole body away. Limo taken away by agents
and cleaned and refurbished.
Also- page 186: Senator Ralph Yarborough’s comments about
agents slow reaction noted.
Page 182- drinking incident noted. Fort Worth Press Club,
Cellar. Pat Kirkwood/ Ruby.
Pages 173-174: Chicago plot.
Pages 175-177: Fulbright; Milteer; Cabells; Sorrels;
11/20/63 knoll fence rifles incident.
2013-2014-2015-2016-2017-2018-2019-2020-2021-2022-2023-2024-2025 achievements
President Kennedy Should Have Survived Dallas: The Secret Service & The JFK Assassination
2023:
11. Contacted by USA Today's Ed Brackett re: Paul Landis 9/21/23- I emailed him my Landis chapter + You Tube link
12. Landis chapter for upcoming Steve Cameron book
13. Listed as speaker for JFK Lancer conference (via remote) [UPDATE: I decided not to do it]
14. https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/jfk-secret-service-agent-paul-landis-makes-a-big-splash-in-2023-ahead-of-the-60th-anniversary-of-the-kennedy-assassination-but-how-credible-is-he
15. End credits to "JFK: WHAT THE DOCTORS SAW" documentary 11/14/23 Paramount Plus [my correspondence and a couple photos included. That same correspondence shown on KDKA-from an excerpt from this same program-on 11/22/23 during John Delano's interview of 92-year-old Dr. Cyril Wecht]
16. Updated iMDB to include #15 and Meredith Mantik's "INVISIBLE WITNESS"
17. Mentioned on Rob Reiner's "Who Killed JFK?" iHeart podcast 12/27/23 (at the 3:49 mark; Soledad O'Brien)
2022:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHrIws0ozMA
10. MY PRESENTATION VIA REMOTE 11/19/22 11:25 am to 12:20 pm -
2021:
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by Oliver Stone and Jim DiEugenio- I am listed in a "Thanks To" segment of the closing credits. The two-hour version will be streamed via Showtime's on-demand app beginning November 12, and will premiere on the Showtime network November 22. Both the two- and four-hour versions will be released for sale or rent next February for those without access to Showtime. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11173544/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_Revisited:_Through_the_Looking_Glass
MY PRESENTATION WITH NARRATION INCLUDED IN THESE VIDEOS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHkVdhDxq7w&t=6s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVyxqKYhnl4&t=7592s
15. Article I am mentioned in 11/22/21:
2020:
2019:
2018:
2017:
2016:
1)1/9/16 received green light from Trine Day for my third book THE NOT SO SECRET SERVICE: AGENCY TALES FROM FDR TO THE JFK ASSASSINATION TO REAGAN (2017)--hits Amazon + October/ November
2) 2/15/16 2-hour Skype (audio) interview with Ed Opperman (via Julia & Kris/ Trine Day)
3) 3/22/16 1-hour Skype (audio/video) interview with Brent Holland-posted to You Tube 3/27/16:0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fu72nXXfC4
4) CTKA review of Clint Hill's book FIVE PRESIDENTS (posted 5/17/16):
5) 6/6/16 BLACKOP RADIO with Len Osanic (aired 6/9/16)
http://www.blackopradio.com/archives2016.html
6) 6/10/16 conversation with Cat Griffin, researcher for J. Randy Taraborrelli (his 2017 book)
7) 8/26/16- took part in Sharon Gabet/Larkin Malloy podcast (Edge of Night and various other soap operas) [1 hour 20 min mark]
8) A COUP IN CAMELOT 11/8/16 DVD, BLU RAY, STREAMING
http://acoupincamelot.com/bios.html
9) 11/14/16 BLACK OP RADIO
http://www.blackopradio.com/archives2016.html
10) DALLAS CONFERENCE 11/18-11/20/16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEIU6OAeoNE&t=36s
11) foreign news article:
http://www.las2orillas.co/kennedy-hilos-invisibles-crimen-aun-puede-resuelto/
12) http://www.olneydailymail.com/opinion/20161123/jfk-assassinations-place-in-history-and-new-witness
13) 12/6/16 1-hour Skype (audio/video) interview (including Jerry Dealey) with Brent Holland-posted to You Tube (posted 12/12/16):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0QFDf6OXpM
2015:
1) 1/24/15 THEWEEKINCONSPIRACY radio/blog (via audio Skype) 2 hour appearance
http://www.theweekinconspiracy.com/
You can listen at theweekinconspiracy.com on the chat listen button, YouTube channel MusterSee, UStream, TuneIn Radio which I like it the best next to the website most people use tunein radio. We will send you a link to soundcloud.com for archive
2) also 1/24/15: 2 hour recorded phone interview with Jake Carter for his upcoming book
3) 3/12/15: 15 minute recorded conversation with Luis Ramirez, Chief White House Correspondent for Voice of America
Wow- spoke to the Chief White House Correspondent for Voice of America about the latest Secret Service scandal (he called me). I got in a few statements about the drinking incident of 11/22/63, as well. It went rather well, indeed.
http://www.voanews.com/content/new-scandal-for-us-secret-service/2677086.html
From: Luis Ramirez
Sent: 3/12/2015 10:53 AM
To: vincebethel@yahoo.com
Subject: VOA Interview Request
Mr. Palamara:
Voice of America would like to interview you today and get your perspective on the current state of affairs at the Secret Service.
Our interview would be 10 minutes long, by phone or Skype. Portions of the interview would be used as part of our coverage of the challenges facing the Secret Service currently. Portions of the interview will air to our international audiences via our language services through our TV, radio, and Internet platforms.
Please let me know if you are available.
Best Regards,
4) 4/2/15 (via audio Skype) [for May 4, 2015/ You Tube/ iTunes/ etc.] Alan R. Warren/ Z Talk Radio Network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcsRpGPZyRM&feature=youtu.be
-----
footnote- missed connection (6/3/15):
Hi, Vince,
I hope you have been well since our last speaking. This is Thomas Zimmer over at Sputnik News in Washington, D.C.
I was hoping you might be willing to comment on a new Secret Service report that came out from Judicial Watch revealing the details of Operation Moonshine:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/06/jw-obtains-secret-service-records-on-operation-moonshine/
http://sputniknews.com/us/20150603/1022876691.html
I’d be curious as to your thoughts on them as you have written extensively and researched the Secret Service.
If you could please email me back or call me at 313 ______as soon as possible, I would appreciate it as I am on deadline.
Thanks for your time, and I look forward to speaking soon!
Thomas
Thomas Zimmer
News writer
Sputnik US
E-mail.: thomas.zimmer@sputniknews.com
5) (7/22/15) Pioneering Black Secret Service JFK Guard Warns Of Current Lessons
Dear Mr. Palamara:
As an admirer of your “Survivor’s Guilt” and a friend of Kris Millegan, I wanted to let you know I quoted from the book in my column today excerpted below announcing Abraham Bolden’s participation on my panel July 29 at a conference in DC.
I think such occasions are to be cherished and recorded for posterity. I know you talked to him extensively for book. But let me take the occasion of this note, primarily a thanks and FYI, to invite any question you might have for him about current operations/scandals of the Secret Service? As moderator, I would attribute it to you.
My own view as an author is that all recent presidents, including President Obama, know they have good reason to fear not just lone nuts, but the public is not fully aware of this. That’s just my view, albeit after considerably research.
Whatever the case on that, thanks for all you do. I look forward to buying your next book and meeting down the road. I can arrange for you a book talk at the National Press Club on a Wednesday evening sometime after the book comes out.
Best regards,
Andrew Kreig
Justice Integrity Project Editor (www.justice-integrity.org) &
Presidential Puppetry author
Washington, DC 20004
(202) 638-0070; (202) 787-8335
(c)
Twitter: AndrewKreig
RSS Feed for Updates: http://feeds.feedburner.com/JusticeIntegrityProject
Pioneering Black Secret Service JFK Guard Warns Of Current Lessons
Andrew Kreig, July 22, 2015
Abraham Bolden, the first African American to serve on the White House detail guarding a president, has a secret to share July 29 in Washington, DC: Gross security lapses enabled President John F. Kennedy's
[also in another one of his blogs/articles]
6) Podcast for Jim Harold Media via audio Skype 10/15/15 for November 2015 release
7) Two-part Skype (video/ recorded [10/29-10/30/15]) interview with French Canadian journalist Pierre Plante for upcoming French JFK article about my forthcoming book(12/17/15):
8) MY SECOND BOOK "JFK: FROM PARKLAND TO BETHESDA- THE ULTIMATE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION COMPENDIUM" in kindle, nook, and paperback:
9) My first book mentioned favorably in Donald Wilkes new internet news article 11/18/15:
http://flagpole.com/news/news-features/2015/11/18/the-cia-and-the-jfk-assassination-part-1
10) Podcast for The Mind's Eye with Brian Turnof 11/19/15-
JFK Assassination Medical Evidence / Vince Palamara:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgirVrk5orY
11) Podcast with Alan Warren 11/20/15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rL1IgCn2tQ
12) Australia conference via pre-recorded Skype/ You Tube 11/21-11/22/15
http://www.reopenkennedycase.org/rokc-symposium-2015
http://gregparke4.wix.com/rokcevents
2014:
1) Vince Palamara on radio 1/24/14/ Popeye Jefferson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISomNsAt7j8
2) Abe Bolden Former JFK Secret Service /Vince Palamara Secret Serv. Author: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/warriorsofendurance/2014/01/30/abe-bolden-former-jfk-secret-service-vince-palamara-secret-serv-author
3) Vince Palamara on the Jack Duffy Show 2/27/14:
http://jackduffy.srbroadcasting.com/index.cgi?action2=playsong&itemid=1131#playsong
4) Vince Palamara on the Brent Holland radio show March 2014-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_EQiH8m4DA
5) UTT #28 - Interview With Author Vince Palamara, Secret Service Expert - http://www.unveilingthetruth.com/utt28-interview-with-vince-palamara.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8YhrSwAyTw
6) WGMD/ Delaware with Tyler Nixon (2 hours) 5/24/14- many calls :) http://www.wgmd.com/
NY TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHORS JESSE VENTURA AND ROGER STONE ENDORSE”SURVIVOR’S GUILT” 1/9/14:
http://vincepalamara.com/2014/01/10/ny-times-best-selling-authors-jesse-ventura-and-roger-stone-endorsesurvivors-guilt-1914/
---------------
Duquesne University alumni magazine 2014- nice write up :)
-----------------------------------------------
Excellent review by author extraordinaire JIM DIEUGENIO!
http://www.ctka.net/2014_reviews/survivors_guilt.html
------------------
Excellent new article on the JFK assassination:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-JFK-Assassination-Why-by-Lance-Moore-Assassination_Assassination-Attempt_Conspiracies_Conspiracy-140413-711.html
------------------
Hey, I made the big time LOL- I am quoted in the article:
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/hillary-clinton-book-review-amazon-107664.html
------------
-------------------
MAJOR VANITY FAIR ARTICLE: " COULD THE SECRET SERVICE HAVE SAVED JFK?"
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2014/10/secret-service-jfk-assassination
see also:
2013 reprise :)
http://eastorlandopost.com/dirty-secret-secret-service-president-kennedy-should-have-lived
------------
http://www.the-daily-record.com/local%20news/2014/04/07/20-questions-andy-kiel
http://redcarpetcrash.com/movie-review-coup-camelot-looks-jfks-assassination-group-experts/
Interesting....my one video from my You Tube channel is credited at the bottom left corner from the official LBJ Library website about the limousine. http://www.lbjlibrary.org/exhibits/lbjs-presidential-limousine/#!prettyPhoto
11/20/14 Jack Duffy show:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/jackduffy/2014/11/21/survivors-guilt
11/20/14 Skype (audio) presentation for Judyth Baker's conference:
http://jfkconference.com/?page_id=11
VINCE PALAMARA: “The Failures of the Secret Service”
Via pre-recorded Skype [they only aired the last 15 minutes; also show via live stream]
I helped in the writing of some of this article:
http://m.vice.com/read/obamas-secret-service-cant-get-its-shit-together
Donald Wilkes article- 2 best books of 2013:
http://flagpole.com/news/news-features/2014/11/26/the-jfk-assassination
TWO documentaries, filmed in 2013, waiting for release (DVD)
Mentioned in new books by Gayle Nix Jackson, Judyth Baker, Ed Souza, Roger Stone, Don Jeffries, and Phil Nelson, among others
I will be credited in this fine production:
This documentary is about Robert DeProspero, a retired Secret Service Agent who was head of security during the Reagan Administration.
https://www.facebook.com/TheManBehindTheSuit?ref=stream
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4159558/?ref_=rvi_tt
SEE ALSO:
http://acoupincamelot.com/trailer.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4196546/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3913154/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_1
MAJOR WND ARTICLE BY JEROME CORSI including Dan Emmett:
http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/secret-service-experts-worry-about-obamas-safety/
2013 achievements
Vince Palamara's most recent radio shows PLUS [see PENDING, below]
12/30/13 review:
http://www.examiner.com/article/bite-sized-book-reviews-volume-fourteen-jfk-edition
http://eastorlandopost.com/did-secret-service-lay-down-jfk
12/29/13 review
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20131229/PC12/131229519/1003/jfk-books-in-review-4-more
FROM THE FRENCH WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT:
http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/secret-service-changed-after-jfk-s-death-1.1610361
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/131120/secret-service-learned-lessons-jfk-assassination
SAME ARTICLE IN FRENCH AND ANOTHER LANGUAGE:
http://www.france-amerique.com/articles/2013/11/20/securite_presidentielle_l_engrenage_de_dallas_impensable_aujourd_hui.html
http://www.lavenir.net/article/detail.aspx?articleid=dmf20131121_00392316
http://vnexpress.net/tin-tuc/the-gioi/phan-tich/mat-vu-my-thay-doi-hoan-toan-sau-vu-am-sat-kennedy-2913282.html
PAKISTAN DAILY TIMES:
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2013%5C11%5C22%5Cstory_22-11-2013_pg4_7
----------------------
WLOS-TV Ashevile, NC via Skype 11/18/63 re: Greer
Click on the link here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep_TXldeuzQ
-------------------------
Sharon Wu of CBC 12/12/13 re: Secret Service/ South Africa
--------------------------------
Bill Martinez Live Radio 12/10/13
http://billmartinezlive.com/ [show not archived yet]
-----------------
Behind The Curtain with Jack Burkman on Radio America (recorded 11/15/13; airs 11/16/13)
-----------------
Gary Null show 11/16/13
http://thegarynullshow.podbean.com/
http://prn.fm/tag/vince-palamara/
http://prn.fm/category/archives/gary-null-show/
------------------------
Belfast Ireland articles re: Greer:
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/regional/tyrone-born-jfk-driver-mired-in-conspiracy-was-in-orange-order-1-5699969
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/humble-stewartstown-background-of-us-president-jfk-s-driver-bill-greer-1-5699977
-----------------------
JACK BLOOD SHOW NOVEMBER 2013:
http://deadlinelive.info/2013/11/14/jfk-50th-anniversary-special-edition-secret-service-stand-down-prior-knowledge-cover-up-guest-secret-service-expert-vince-palamara/
----------------------------------
Down The Rabbit Hole - Friday- 09-20-2013
JFK Assassination: The Secret Service Stand Down
downtherabbithole | Sep 20, 2013
On this edition of DTRH Popeye welcomes back friend, author, and JFK assassination researcher Vince Palamara. Known as the Secret Service expert, Vince has appeared on DTRH numerous times in past. He has a book coming out in October 2013, and has been featured in part seven (7) of a nine (9) part series from the History channel called “The Men Who Killed Kennedy,” his episode was titled “The Smoking Guns.” They go over, in detail, the Secret Service’s roll in President Kennedy’s murder. Make sure to tune into this powerful broadcast.
http://truthfrequencyradio.com/down-the-rabbit-hole-w-popeye-25546/
---------------
from 9/7/13
http://truthfrequencyradio.com/the-covert-report-w-susan-lindauer-24717/
----------------
http://blackopradio.com/archives2013.html
Show #646
Original airdate: September 5, 2013
Guests: Vince Palamara / Col. L. Fletcher Prouty
Topics: Survivor's Guilt / Prouty Topic
(scroll down for my show from 3/7/13, as well)
-----------------
PENDING:
Not including Mills Crenshaw Show 11/14/13 (archive links coming; have mp3) http://millscrenshawdrivetimeliveschedule.blogspot.com/2013_11_21_archive.html; Art Van Kampen documentary June 2013 (have still photos+ sample video); Joseph Green documentary "Dallas In Wonderland" August 2013 (have still photo)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.examiner.com/article/of-secrets-service-vincent-palamara-on-survivor-s-guilt-jfk-assassination
http://www.examiner.com/article/jfk-assassination-revisited-part-2-joseph-mcbride-on-into-the-nightmare
http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/11/16/classic-who-must-watch-video-secret-service-agent-pulled-off-jfk-car/
------------
See also my You Tube channel and the playlist "Vince Palamara on Television" for my C-SPAN and History Channel clips (ETC), as well as my other Down The Rabbit Hole with Popeye shows: 11/30/12, 12/7/12, 1/11/13, and 4/12/13
http://www.youtube.com/user/VincePalamara
------------
Jack Duffy 9/26/13
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pwrnetwork/2013/09/27/the-man-from-2063-where-the-past-meet-the-future#.UkV8mBdJ4sM.facebook
-------
Bob Morrison (recorded 8/31/13; aired 11/29/13):
Hear the Bob Morrison interview with Author Vince Palamara as they tackle what happened 50 years ago in Dallas to the late JFK. Coming up right after the Jason Curtman Show on Leading Edge Radio Network. www.LeadingEdgeRadio.com
http://www.leadingedgeradio.com/
--------------
AMAZING LENGTHY BLOG/ ARTICLE:
http://www.sott.net/article/269016-Gerald-Blaine-and-the-Kennedy-Detail-Was-the-Secret-Service-Stood-Down-in-Dallas
--------
PAUL DANIEL SHOW:
http://link.theplatform.com/s/X7YCEC/BHF8xOVz16fi/file.mp3?feed=Clone%20of%20All%20Content%20%28For%20Search%29&metafile=false
(Paul Daniel (9/20/13) of Accessible Media Inc., (AMI) [have mp3])
Part 1
http://wpc.2269.edgecastcdn.net/002269/mps/Accessible_Media_Inc._VMS/338/419/Nov_17_2013_Death_of_a_President_Part_1_Contact_Special1384810233841.mp3
Part 2
http://wpc.2269.edgecastcdn.net/002269/mps/Accessible_Media_Inc._VMS/772/775/Nov_22_2013_Death_of_a_President_Part_2_Contact_Special1385056868558.mp3
Part 3
http://wpc.2269.edgecastcdn.net/002269/mps/Accessible_Media_Inc._VMS/772/775/Nov_24_2013_Death_of_a_President_Part_3_Contact_Special1385056868813.mp3
--------------
PLUS: my comment at the bottom of this article on Blaine
http://kdvr.com/2013/11/21/colorado-man-former-secret-service-agent-remembers-kennedy/
---------------------
Trine Day Press Release:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/10/prweb11275697.htm
--------------
INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE- VINCE PALAMARA:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5096140/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAjdQsrnvYE&t=0s
JFK Conspiracy & The Secret Service - Vincent Palamara - True Crime Podcast 701 Shaun Attwood 949K
I hate to give credit for this to a certain person, but I
must (for honesty’s sake): THE MOST HONORABLE FRED LITWIN (who could be a dead ringer for Donald Trump!) found these documents within other
HSCA docs. That said, he acts as if this nullifies the destruction of records
by the Secret Service during the ARRB’s tenure! It most certainly does NOT as
this was merely a fluky find within other docs. One is reminded of former Secret
Service agent Gerald Blaine attempting the same thing in his book The Kennedy
Detail just because he owned a copy of the Tampa trip docs (never mind the embarrassing
fact that those docs escaped the shredder in the first place). MANY other
Secret Service docs WERE destroyed, so this doc (similar to author Barry Ernest’s
1999 discovery of the Martha Stroud doc buried within other unrelated docs)
does not exonerate the government for burying the doc and the information it
contained in the first place.
The doc is valuable because it names Secret Service agent
Nemo Ciochina (who has a whole chapter in my latest book), SAIC Maurice
Martineau, Abraham Bolden and others as being part of the security for JFK’s
cancelled Chicago trip. Importantly, this is the Protective Survey Report and
NOT the preliminary survey report, so important security details are missing or
glossed over. That said, the docs do reveal that 4 press/photographer’s
vehicles were to be close behind the presidential limousine [as we know, the
press was far behind the limo in Dallas and out of the picture (literally)]; a
mayor’s car with police/detectives was to be right behind the Secret Service
follow-up car [Dallas Police Captain Jesse Curry and Chief of Homicide Will
Fritz wanted their own cars in the Dallas motorcade but their requests were
cancelled at the last minute]; General Godfrey McHugh was slated to ride in the
presidential limousine [as we know, he was asked in Dallas-for the first
time-not to ride there by the Secret Service in order to accentuate full exposure
for the president]; ASAIC Floyd Boring was scheduled for the trip and was to
ride in the presidential limo [#3 man Roy Kellerman took Boring’s place in
Dallas]; Press Secretary Pierre Salinger and his immediate assistant, Andy
Hatcher, were scheduled for the trip [as with third-stringer Kellerman,
third-stringer Malcolm Kilduff made his first presidential trip on his own for
the Texas trip. Salinger was very knowledgeable about motorcade security and
admitted in his 1997 book that he might have missed maybe 2-3 trips in all his
time with JFK. Texas was one of them!]; Secret Service agents Don Lawton and
Chuck Zboril were scheduled to ride in the follow-up car [both agents rode on
the rear of the limo in Tampa shortly after (11/18/63), while Lawton rode on
the rear of the limo in the prior Chicago trip of 3/23/63. As we know, Lawton
was famously recalled from the area of the rear of the limo at Love Field on
11/22/63 by the very same shift leader assigned to the cancelled Chicago trip
of 11/2/63- Emory Roberts].
Also, a 11/5/63 addendum merely states that “his trip was
cancelled,” not that he [JFK] cancelled the trip.
I don’t care if it turns out that a few surviving agents
have some of the shredded documents. The point is that the Secret Service
destroyed them in 1995 after they were formally asked for them and being in private
hands does not change anything.
2025: my 7th book "President Kennedy Should Have Survived Dallas: The Secret Service & The JFK Assassination" coming out + viral video!
Please "like" my new page (yes, you heard right: 2025 brings book number 7, my final one)! https://www.facebook.com/presidentkennedyshouldhavesurvivedDallas