FK's Secret Service agents write about guilt, events leading to assassination in "Kennedy Detail"
Book signing Friday at Carollwood Barnes and Noble
By: Carson Chambers
TAMPA - Everyone can pinpoint a moment in life we wish we could change; details we often dwell on.
Three United States Secret Service Agents have this in common. Their regrets start in Tampa in November of 1963.
"It was sunny outside,” Blaine remembers. "We had 28 miles of motorcade. We had an appearance at Lopez Field, which has been replaced by the Steinbrenner family and also the National Guard Armory."
Agent Gerald Blaine was working the President's Secret Service detail that day along what was once called Grand Central Avenue.
"All the sudden he looked over his shoulder and saw the agents riding on the back of the car. He tapped the agent-in-charge [FLOYD BORING]on the shoulder and said "Have the Ivy League Charlatans drop back to the follow-up car,'" according to Blaine. "The President said essentially, 'look, my political style is to be with the people and if I have agents hovering over me, it detracts from that.'"
[TOTAL FICTION: JFK NEVER SAID THAT! CONGRESSMAN SAM GIBBONS SAT RIGHT NEXT TO JFK AND DENIED THIS EVER HAPPENED; FLOYD BORING SAID IT WASN'T TRUE; THE LIST GOES ON] The President's orders, given to Agent Blaine and Secret Service Agent Chuck Zboril, along what is now Kennedy Boulevard, set the stage for the tragedy that unfolded 100 yards after a slow turn onto Elm Street in Dallas, Texas.
[MORE TOTAL CRAP]"We had the top off because the weather conditions were such that it was a beautiful day,” said Hill. He says there were a lot of people hanging out of windows and on balconies.
Agent Clint Hill's Secret Service detail was to protect Mrs. Kennedy. His regrets are he couldn't do more.
"I heard an explosive noise from the right rear," recounted Hill. "What I saw was the President grabbing his throat. So I jumped off the follow-up car, ran toward the Presidential vehicle,” he said. "The driver accelerated, the car starting moving forward, causing me to slip. I regained my foothold but before I did a third shot rang out."
Agent Hill has spent nearly fifty years dissecting those six seconds.
"I was the only one who was in a position to do anything,” Hill said. "If I had been a second and a half faster, quicker, I'd a been there in time.”
Agent Zboril was in Tampa, but not Dallas, and still shoulders guilt.
"My shift was on-duty that day and I had the temporary assignment to go to Atoka and I thought if I had been there maybe history would have been a little different,” said Agent Zboril.
[WHY??? JFK'S "ORDER" LEFT YOU GUYS ALL OFF THE HOOK...OOPS-DO YOU SHOULDER THAT GUILT BECAUSE YOU KNOW JFK DID NOT ORDER YOU OFF THE LIMO?]"That was the terrible thing when he was assassinated, we all had the guilty feeling about it and felt that we had failed," Agent Blaine told us.
These three Secret Service Agents still dwell on these details, the kind that changed them -- and history.
"It never gets any easier," said Agent Hill.[THAT'S O.K.-JUST WRITE ANOTHER BOOK AND MAKE SOME MORE BLOOD MONEY PROFIT]
The Secret Service Agents will be signing copies of their book "The Kennedy Detail" Friday night at 7 PM at the Carrollwood Barnes and Noble on North Dale Mabry.
Editor's Note: Some images used in the video are courtesy of the St. Petersburg Times archives.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
I may have missed this-more crap from Blaine circa Fall 2010
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