MY BEST BOOK! MANY CALL IT THE BEST JFK ASSASSINATION BOOK! CLICK ON THE IMAGE!

MY BEST BOOK! MANY CALL IT THE BEST JFK ASSASSINATION BOOK! CLICK ON THE IMAGE!
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MAJOR SECRET SERVICE RELATED BOOKS/DVDs/BLU RAYS I AM REFERENCED IN

MAJOR SECRET SERVICE RELATED BOOKS/DVDs/BLU RAYS I AM REFERENCED IN
Zero Fail (quotes from my fourth book), The updated version of The Secret Service-The Hidden History of an Enigmatic Agency (several pages), The Secrets of the Secret Service (the former agent quotes from my third book), The Kennedy Detail (the former agent refers to me on a few pages- he wrote his book as a reaction to my research), Guardians of Democracy (the former agent refers to this blog), Within Arm’s Length (the former agent has my blurb on the cover), C-SPAN November 2010 DVD with former agents Gerald Blaine and Clint Hill (they show a You Tube video of me and discuss my research), C-SPAN May 2012 DVD with former agent Clint Hill (he discusses my letter about his first book), the original edition of The Secret Service-The Hidden History of an Enigmatic Agency (several pages), My History Channel appearance on The Men Who Killed Kennedy (DVD), My NEWSMAX TV appearance on The Men Who Killed Kennedy (2019-2020), The Final Report of the Assassinations Records Review Board (images of the excerpt about my Secret Service interviews donation, President Clinton receiving the report, and an image of the cover), Last Word (several pages and my blurb on the cover of the paperback), A Coup in Camelot DVD/ Blu Ray, They Killed Our President (16 pages refer to my work), an image of myself on C-SPAN, A Coup in Camelot via Amazon Prime television, The Man Behind the Suit DVD (I am Associate Producer on this documentary about former agent Robert DeProspero), JFK REVISITED: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (I am credited at the end), Vanity Fair article 10/17/14 (refers to my first book a couple times), JFK: The Final Hours DVD (program credits-in background slightly above), Murder in Dealey Plaza (I have two chapters), The Kennedy Half Century (refers to this blog), Coinage Magazine February 2010 (several quotes from myself), Publishers Weekly 8/28/2000 (refers to my contribution to Murder in Dealey Plaza, above), JFK: DESTINY BETRAYED (thanked at the end of all four episodes), and 2 images from THE ASSASSINATION OF JFK SBS UK DOCUMENTARY 2021

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Monday, December 29, 2014

6/10/63 agents on limo, lots of motorcycles

6/10/63 agents on limo, lots of motorcycles

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/12/29/andrew-cohen-in-1963-jfk-did-something-startling-he-asked-americans-to-rethink-peace/

6/10/63
"With a phalanx of motorcycle escorts and police cars, and with Secret Service agents standing on its hydraulic steps, the Lincoln carried the president around Washington and the world like a pharaoh on a golden litter borne by an army of attendants. Five months and 12 days later, it would carry him through the streets of Dallas."

Excerpted from Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours that Made History by Andrew Cohen.

Sunday, December 21, 2014

AIR FORCE ONE items


http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=21165
"DULLES TO ANDREWS THE PRESIDENT WILL NOT BE ABOARD AIRCRAFT"- significant? stamped 11/20/63













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SAM 26000 Logbook
This scan from the SAM 26000 logbook shows the entries made on Nov. 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy flew to Dallas, Texas, where he was assassinated. It logs President Kennedy's final flight from Dallas (Love Field) to Andrews Air Force Base. On this flight Kennedy's body was returned to Washington, D.C. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Note: This item is currently in storage.
These logbook entries illustrate some of the historic flights made by Boeing VC-137C SAM 26000 (Air Force One) from 1963-1965.
The logbook shows the entries made on Nov. 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy flew to Dallas, Texas, where he was assassinated. It logs President Kennedy's final flight from Dallas (Love Field) to Andrews Air Force Base. On this flight Kennedy's body was returned to Washington, D.C.
The logbook also shows entries made under the new President Lyndon B. Johnson. It was on this aircraft that Vice President Johnson was sworn in as the new President of the United States.
Donated from the Estate of James B. & Emily M. Swindal, through their daughter, Kathryn E. Swindal.

Thursday, December 18, 2014

The very best factual novel ever written on the JFK assassination!

The very best factual novel ever written on the JFK assassination!

Simply put, author John Onesti has brilliantly put together a well written factual novel that both entertains and informs. The names have been slightly changed to protect the innocent AND the guilty- it is no "secret" that this is a valuable "service" to the reader, if you catch my drift. Those familiar with the names, dates, and facts of the case will find much to ruminate over, while the novice will enjoy the story-telling quality of the "factional" novel.

Onesti has hit a home run with this book. My eyes usually glaze over when I see so-called novels on the JFK assassination- they are usually boring and terrible, to be honest. I am heartened to say that Onesti's book is the crème of the entire crop- he is the REAL "king" of this genre of assassination literature. GET THIS ONE ASAP!

Vince Palamara
Author of Survivor's Guilt: The Secret Service and the Failure to Protect President Kennedy

http://www.amazon.com/Assassination-Point-Blank-John-Onesti/dp/0692334394/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1418965352&sr=1-1&keywords=john+onesti

Saturday, December 13, 2014

KENNEDY DETAIL (era) AGENTS WHO HAVE PASSED (and who are still living):

KENNEDY DETAIL (era) AGENTS WHO HAVE PASSED (and who are still living): [updated 7/26/15]

See also:

http://secretservicejfksecretservice.blogspot.com/

DALE KEANER 4/20/15:
http://obits.mlive.com/obituaries/saginaw/obituary.aspx?pid=174711858


ROBERT KOLLAR 11/17/14:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/pe/obituary.aspx?pid=173467212

 

ED MOREY (NEW JFK AGENT; MET JFK 11/20/63) 11/7/14


JOHN GLEASON 9/10/14


 

LEM JOHNS 5/10/14


DON LAWTON (LEFT BEHIND AT LOVE FIELD; RODE ON REAR OF LIMO TAMPA AND CHICAGO) 4/5/13



JOHN “JACK” READY (ON FOLLOW-UP CAR) 2/24/14


FRANK HANCOCK 2/6/2014


 

DAVID GRANT (CO-ADVANCE AGENT FOR DALLAS) 12/28/13 “brother-in-law of Gwen Hill”, Clint Hill’s wife [they never divorced]


 

JOHN JOE HOWLETT (DALLAS OFFICE) 10/10/2013


“John Joe joined the Secret Service on October 1, 1962. He reported to the New York City Field Office and went from there to serve on detail for Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson…He was then transferred to Dallas Field Office in February of 1963. It was there that former President of the United States, John F. Kennedy was assassinated where Mr. Howlett performed intense investigations on this tragedy. After the assassination, he assisted the Warren Commission report for about a year.”

P HAMILTON BROWN 9/2013

LOUIS MAYO 5/11/2013


JACK WALSH JANUARY 2012

GEORGE CHANEY 8/14/2011

 

GEORGE W. HICKEY, JR 2011


ROBERT R. FAISON 6/28/2011



TALMADGE W BAILEY 3/11/2011

 

JOHN JOSEPH LARDNER 11/19/2010

 

RICHARD JOHNSEN (CE399) 10/2/2010


JERRY KIVETT (VP LBJ SECRET SERVICE CAR) 6/26/2010


GLENN WEAVER (VP LBJ) 4/4/2010

MAURICE MARTINEAU (SAIC Chicago) 10/8/2009


 

H. STUART KNIGHT (SAIC VP LBJ DETAIL) 9/7/2009

 


FRANK STONER 2/15/2009


 

JIM JEFFRIES 1/18/2009

WINSTON GINTZ 7/22/2008


 

VINCENT MROZ 7/22/2008


 

ROBERT FOSTER 6/18/2008



 

ROBERT BOUCK 4/27/2008

 

LYNN MEREDITH 4/17/2008




 

FLOYD BORING 2/1/2008

 



STANLEY GALUP (SECRET SERVICE/ SPECIAL OFFICER 1962-1985) 7/15/2007

JAMES “MIKE” MASTROVITO 11/24/2006



 

LAWRENCE HESS 11/5/2006

 

ANDREW BERGER 6/22/2006


ARTHUR BLAKE 4/7/2006


 

PAUL A BURNS 4/5/2005


JOHN PAUL JONES (VP LBJ) MARCH 2004

JOHN NORRIS (UNIFORMED DIVISION) 4/30/2003

G. d’ANDELOT “DON” BELIN (Acting Treasury Secretary/ General Counsel) 4/15/2003

C. DOUGLAS DILLON (Treasury Secretary) 1/10/2003

BILL BACHERMAN 5/31/2002



 

ARTHUR GODFREY 5/12/2002


RALPH STOVER (HEAD OF UNIFORMED DIVISION) 1/24/2002


 

ELMER W. MOORE (San Francisco office+) 12/4/2001

JACKSON KRILL 1/20/2000

DENNIS HALTERMAN 1988

HOWARD ANDERSON

BURRILL PETERSON 11/6/95

WALTER PINE

ELLIOT THACKER

WALTER YOUNG 1996

PAUL J. PATERNI 2/5/84


 

ROY KELLERMAN MARCH 22, 1984



 

WILLIAM GREER 2/23/1985

 


U.E. BAUGHMAN 11/6/78


JAMES ROWLEY 11/1/92


RUFUS YOUNGBLOOD 10/2/96


HENRY “HANK” RYBKA 12/25/75

STUART STOUT 1974

EMORY ROBERTS 10/8/73


GLEN BENNETT 4/4/94

ANDY HUTCH 1991

HARVEY HENDERSON JANUARY 1994

JOHN J. “MUGGSY” O’LEARY 12/75

GERALD BEHN 4/21/93

SAM KINNEY 7/21/97

LUBERT “BERT” de FREESE 1991


NED HALL II 11/26/98

BILL PAYNE

FORREST SORRELS (DALLAS OFFICE) NOVEMBER 1993
CHARLIE KUNKEL 6/27/92
ROBERT STEUART (DALLAS OFFICE) 12/11/99
ROBERT JAMISON
ELMER LAWRENCE
J. LEROY LEWIS
GERALD MCCANN
JACK PARKER
WALTER BLASCHAK (WHD CLERK)
THOMAS KELLEY
CLARENCE KNETSCH (VP LBJ)
PAUL DOSTER 1987
JOHN MARSHALL
JERRY DOLAN 8/10/93
DEETER B. “DICK” FLOHR 2/24/96
WADE RODHAM 1983
JOHN CAMPION 1983
ROBERT TAYLOR 3/12/81
MICHAEL TORINA
JACK HOLTZHAUER 10/19/98
WILLIAM C. DAVIS
BROOKS KELLER
RUSSELL”BUCK” DANIELS
EDITH DUNCAN (BOUCK AND BAUGHMAN’S SECRETARY)
JAMES K.”JACK” FOX 1987
JAMES GRIFFITH
ED WILDY
MORGAN GIES 1980
THOMAS WOOGE 10/17/68
THOMAS SHIPMAN 10/14/63
 
 

Still living as of 7/25/15:

WALT COUGHLIN- worked for Hunt Oil; has oil interests in Yemen

SAM SULLIMAN

ERNEST OLSSON

WILLIAM “TIM” MCINTYRE

CLINT HILL

PAUL LANDIS

WARREN “WOODY” TAYLOR

RONALD PONTIUS

JOE PAOLELLA

JIM GOODENOUGH

CHARLES MARASS

 
KENT JORDAN

WILLIAM DUNCAN

JAMES “MIKE” HOWARD

WILLIAM PATTERSON (? MIA)

GERALD BLAINE- has oil interests in Yemen

KEN GIANNOULES

BILL LIVINGOOD

GERALD O’ROURKE


 

MICHAEL J. SHANNON

(Obit for his wife- he is still living)


http://www.stephensondearman.com/guestbook.asp?page=guestbook&id=882

 
Michael J. Shannon
Grand Rapids, MI
Another Old Timer from the days of LBJ VP Detail; the Mona Lisa Detail; and a fellow NYFO agent and Michigan State University
Spartan passes on. I too served during those years starting during August 1962 at NY City; then off to Washington with LBJ's
Detail; and the Mona Lisa Detail; and on 11-22 at Dallas I was the lone agent working midnight to 8am with the Johnsons at
Fort Worth; then the horror of the events at Dallas.....I knew John Joe [Howlett] well. He was a fine agent and dedicated to the job.
Be proud of his service to this country......he was a good man!
He will not be forgotten!

Condolence From: Michael J. Shannon (USSS retired; 1962-1988)

Condolence: Bob [Faison] was a fellow agent who was well-liked and respected. Never flashy; just a solid dependable man who got the job done. I'm glad to have known him and I count him as one of the great agents with whom I've worked. His family can be very proud of Bob and his service to the United States as a patriot soldier and Secret Service agent.

Sunday July 03, 2011

 

WINSTON G LAWSON



 

ROGER C. WARNER

ROBERT R BURKE



JOHN F. “FRANK” YEAGER




An advance agent in the Secret Service has a direct line to the White House wherever you're at in the world,"

DONALD BENDICKSON (VP LBJ) (?)

GERALD BECHTLE (VP LBJ)

ROBERT LOCKWOOD (VP LBJ) (?)

JOSEPH PAOLELLA


After the assassination, I was re-assigned to guard the presidential vehicle after it had been flown back to the White House garage. Several hospital staff members from Bethesda Naval Hospital entered the vehicle to remove scalp, brain tissue and bone matter from the back seat. While waiting for the Bethesda Naval Hospital attendants to arrive, I did notice what appeared to be a bullet-hole in the front windshield of the driver’s side. I do not remember if the glass remnants were on the inside of the vehicle or the outside of the windshield. If the glass remnants were on the inside of the car, it would offer some acceptance to the theory that at least one of the shots came from the front of the President’s vehicle.

I don’t remember anything out of the ordinary regarding my duties prior to the assassination other than several trips to the Kennedy residence in Palm Beach, Florida. I also recall an incident in Chicago involving a suspect who was planning to assassinate the President. However, I was not involved in that investigation and the threat was taken care of by the Chicago office of the Secret Service.

I believe Oswald was the shooter and though I am not a conspiracy buff, I believe if others were involved, I think the Mafia would be the only ones who could have pulled it off without someone later confessing involvement in the President’s assassination. In those days, Mafia members had a strict code that did not allow them to confess. It had been said that a New Orleans Mafia Don, Carlos Marcello, was heard to say, “If you cut off the head of the snake (JFK), the tail (RFK), would die.” At that time, Robert Kennedy was the Attorney General and was working against the Mafia. Shortly after the assassination, Robert Kennedy was fired and it took another 20-years before the F.B.I. made any headway against the Mafia.

 


 


For the first 1/2 hr of the show, Secret Service Agent Joe Paolella will comment on the General Petraeus affair. Joe will also tell us amazing stories when he was a secret service agent to four US Presidents, including JFK. Joe was the Secret Service agent responsible for guarding JFK’s limousine after the shooting. He noticed a bullet hole through the front windshield and never told anyone about this. About 40 years later, the first and only person he ever told was his good friend Dr John.

TOBY J CHANDLER

ROBERT LILLEY

ABRAHAM BOLDEN

EDWARD Z TUCKER

JOSEPH NOONAN (?)

CHUCK ZBORIL

RADFORD JONES

TOM WELLS

DALE WUNDERLICH

BILL CARTER

JERRY PARR (ROOKIE IN 1962)

THOMAS BEHL

CHARLES TAYLOR

VICTOR GONZALEZ

DICK METZINGER (?)

BILL SKILES

FORREST GUTHRIE

DARWIN HORN

FRANK SLOCUM

ROBERT SNOW

HARRY GIBBS

ED MOUGIN

EARL MOORE


SCOTT TRUNDLE (went on to be a newspaper publisher)- re: Milteer:


LARRY NEWMAN

TONY SHERMAN

DONALD C. BRETT


 

In July of 1961, he was assigned to the retired president’s detail in Little Egg Harbor, NJ.  Ike was, of course, playing golf.   While Brett was thrilled to meet his idol, Eisenhower, the former Commander in Chief and Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces turned the conversation to Brett asking about his military career.  For Eisenhower, it was a chance to talk with another soldier. 

Brett’s career in the Secret Service had tremendous variety and poignancy. He was often assigned to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s detail and he even protected the Mona Lisa when the first lady arranged for the painting to be shown in the United States in January 1963. In October of 1963, he was sent for a six week course at Secret Service School in Washington, D.C. and was at his graduation luncheon on November 22nd when the news of President Kennedy’s assassination reached him and his fellow agents.  He was on the detail that met the car and accompanied the body of the President. Brett went on to serve on Johnson’s and Nixon’s details.  Brett traveled extensively throughout his career and is now retired and living in Sarasota, Florida.

JIM CANTRELL (?)

FRANK FARNSWORTH (?)

TOM FRIDLEY

BOB TILL (?)

BOB GAUGH

JIM GIOVANETTI (??)

DOC WALTERS (??)

JACK WARNER

JIM JOHNSON

KEN WIESMAN- worked for Brown and Root (Haliburton)

MILT WILHITE

HARRY GEGHLEIN (?)

PAUL RUNDLE- SAIC FOR CANDIDATE CURTIS LEMAY DETAIL, 1968!


GARY SEALE


BILL CHESLOCK (?)

JERRY MCKINNEY

ARNIE LAU

EVE DEMPSHER (SECRETARY)

CARROLL WINSLOW (?)

MAC SWEAZEY (?)

BILL STRAUGHN (?)

MIKE KELLY (?)

GAYLE DOBISH (?)

MILT SCHEUERMAN (?)

BOB LAPHAM (?)

ROBERT NEWBRAND (?)

BERNIE MULLADY (?)

JOHN MCCARTHY (?)

CHESTER MILLER (?)

ROY “GENE” NUNN- now works for FEMA

CECIL TAYLOR (?)

KEN THOMPSON (?)

THOMAS WHITE (?)

Friday, December 12, 2014

LUBERT "BERT" DeFREESE

http://peabodykansas.com/olddirect/two_phs_grads_serve_top_office_of_the_land+7pgrads+54776f2050485320677261647320736572766520746f70206f6666696365206f6620746865206c616e64

DeFreese, whose father was the minister at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Peabody, enlisted in the Navy after graduation from PHS and served in the Pacific until the end of World War II.
After his discharge, he attended Colorado State University at Ft. Collins, Colo., earning degrees in 1949 in both science and forestry. He worked for the National Park Service until 1955 when he joined the Secret Service.
DeFreese first served in Chicago, working on counterfeit cases and check forgeries. In 1958, during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency, he was transferred to the White House detail.
He served on White House details protecting presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. DeFreese also served in the Protective Research Branch, Public Affairs, the Liaison Division, and the Office of Investigations.
DeFreese, who died in 1991 from complications of tuberculosis and leukemia, was with Kennedy in Texas, but had left Dallas the morning of the assassination.
In a letter to DeFreese's PHS classmates for a reunion book, his wife Marian wrote that Bert "had been in the field for three weeks arranging the Florida and Dallas trips. He returned home to help carry the president's casket off of Air Force One."
"JFK was wonderful to work with," she continued. "He was funny, interesting, outgoing, and modest. Bert took many trips with President Kennedy, including at least four out of the country."
DeFreese spent 23 years in the Secret Service.

Agent Joe Paolella- ANOTHER witness to the JFK limousine hole in windshield and more

http://janbtucker.com/blog/2014/03/12/joe-paolellas-incredible-life/

"After the assassination, I was re-assigned to guard the presidential vehicle after it had been flown back to the White House garage. Several hospital staff members from Bethesda Naval Hospital entered the vehicle to remove scalp, brain tissue and bone matter from the back seat. While waiting for the Bethesda Naval Hospital attendants to arrive, I did notice what appeared to be a bullet-hole in the front windshield of the driver’s side. I do not remember if the glass remnants were on the inside of the vehicle or the outside of the windshield. If the glass remnants were on the inside of the car, it would offer some acceptance to the theory that at least one of the shots came from the front of the President’s vehicle.
I don’t remember anything out of the ordinary regarding my duties prior to the assassination other than several trips to the Kennedy residence in Palm Beach, Florida. I also recall an incident in Chicago involving a suspect who was planning to assassinate the President. However, I was not involved in that investigation and the threat was taken care of by the Chicago office of the Secret Service.
I believe Oswald was the shooter and though I am not a conspiracy buff, I believe if others were involved, I think the Mafia would be the only ones who could have pulled it off without someone later confessing involvement in the President’s assassination. In those days, Mafia members had a strict code that did not allow them to confess. It had been said that a New Orleans Mafia Don, Carlos Marcello, was heard to say, “If you cut off the head of the snake (JFK), the tail (RFK), would die.” At that time, Robert Kennedy was the Attorney General and was working against the Mafia. Shortly after the assassination, Robert Kennedy was fired and it took another 20-years before the F.B.I. made any headway against the Mafia." [Note: fellow agent Walt Coughlin ALSO believes Oswald was the shooter AND that the Mafia was involved- see his 6th floor museum oral history video]

AUDIO:


For the first 1/2 hr of the show, Secret Service Agent Joe Paolella will comment on the General Petraeus affair. Joe will also tell us amazing stories when he was a secret service agent to four US Presidents, including JFK. Joe was the Secret Service agent responsible for guarding JFK’s limousine after the shooting. He noticed a bullet hole through the front windshield and never told anyone about this. About 40 years later, the first and only person he ever told was his good friend Dr John.

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Secret Service Agent Ed Morey, RIP


Wow- a Secret Service agent I spoke (very briefly) to on 6/13/05, Edward J. Morey [see my book, page 53], appears in these JUST-RELEASED photos with President Kennedy in the oval office, dated 11/20/63, two days before the assassination (MOREY WAS BRAND NEW TO THE WHD). Also, just found out that Morey passed away 11/7/14; had no idea. Having ignored a letter I wrote to him in 2004, Morey would not address the agents-on-the-limo matter: “I’m not going to make any comment on that”, then he hung up!

December 22, 1934 - November 7, 2014

 
 

 

Saturday, December 6, 2014

Could the Secret Service Have Saved J.F.K.?


Could the Secret Service Have Saved J.F.K.?

As the agents who guard the president come under renewed scrutiny, vanityfair.com revisits the entrenched culture of the Secret Service a half century ago and reexamines the actions of John F. Kennedy’s security detail on that fateful day in Dallas.


 

As agent John Norris explained in Bill Sloan’s book J.F.K.: Breaking the Silence and in an interview for Vincent Michael Palamara’s book Survivor’s Guilt: The Secret Service and the Failure to Protect President Kennedy: “Except for George Hickey and Clint Hill, [many of the others] just basically sat there with their thumbs up their butts while the president was gunned down in front of them.”

 

Although some in his security force subtly suggested that Kennedy had brought trouble on himself by his purported aversion to the running boards or by plunging into crowds without any notice, others have refused to blame the victim. Agent Gerald Behn, the head of the White House detail, who was not in Dallas that day, told one writer, “I don’t remember Kennedy ever saying that he didn’t want anybody on the back of his car.”

 

 

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