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The three wise men, the three stooges, or the three amigos? Williams, O'Reilly, and Blaine

LISA MCCUBBIN- "SHOW ME THE MONEY"...OR THE TRUTH?

LISA MCCUBBIN- "SHOW ME THE MONEY"...OR THE TRUTH?




During another 6th Floor Museum appearance (with Hill & Blaine, hosted by Gary Mack), co-author Lisa McCubbin mentions that, during the writing of the book, she would find things that contradicted what Blaine was telling her. Ultimately, she copped out, stating “he was there”…no, he wasn’t there on 11/22/63 in Dallas AND WHAT ABOUT ALL HIS COLLEAGUES WHO REFUTE HIM? Geez. McCubbin strikes me as a good investigative reporter. One wonders if her closeness to Blaine (she grew up with him and even dated his son!), along with the allure of big money, swayed her to “look away”, so to speak, at all the conflicting and contradictory evidence

ANOTHER bad review of Blaine's book

2.0 out of 5 stars Bit of a bore, June 25, 2012

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This review is from: The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence (Hardcover)

I didn't find this book to be a particularly great read and thats possibly my own fault as the previous three books I have read which involved Pres. Kennedy, Frederick Kempes "Berlin 1961", Jim Rasenbergers "The Brilliant Disaster" and Michael Dobbs "One Minute To Midnight", are, although completely different topics, brilliantly written and accurate historical accounts.

This book claims that the agents "Break Their Silence!!" in that they have not spoken since 1963, as if the Warren Commission, various interviews, and several other books never happened in the intervening years.

Some of the quotations from the agents regarding various conversations from 1963 are recorded here in an almost childish manner.
Like regarding a motorcade in Florida where Blaine asks another agent "If you've got any connection with the man upstairs we'd love to have it be pouring with rain next Monday".
To which Agent Peppers laughed saying I'll see what I can do. But remember this is Florida the sunshine state. I wouldn't count on it". In other words the Agents had their heads screwed on when it came to Kennedy's car either having or not having the hardtop raised, just to let the reader know.

Or "Hey Jer, Arnie gave me the name of a good Cuban restaurant not too far from here. Are you up for some local culture?" 'Sure that sounds super" Blaine said. "I just realized I didn't have lunch".

The chapter on Dallas doesn't really reveal any new information or revealing facts that hasn't been recorded a million times before.

The whole book is littered with bland verbal interactions between agents like how tired they were or how hot or cold the weather was. They were thinly stretched, they had to pay for their own suits and it just wasn't fair. Kenny O'Donnell and Dave Powers had them running everywhere.

If you can borrow this from your library like I did, fine but I wouldn't pay $13 bucks for it or 28 when it came out originally.

DUBIOUS New JFK film based on Secret Service member's book

I can see it all now: Blaine will have some cheesey actor portraying JFK, falsely commanding them to get off the limo. Blaine has made a ton of money off the man they failed to protect; this film continues the gravy train for him. Remember: JFK DID NOT ORDER THE AGENTS OFF HIS LIMOUSINE---MY MANY INTERVIEWS WITH FORMER SECRET SERVICE AGENTS AND WHITE HOUSE AIDES DEBUNKS HIS BOOK. Nice job protecting JFK...not! New JFK film based on Secret Service member's book Tim Molloy Reuters 6:02 p.m. CDT, April 16, 2012 NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - The producers of a film planned to coincide with the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination say it will set "the record straight in answer to Oliver Stone's fanciful 'JFK.'" Ramos & Sparks Group of Tallahassee, Fla. and Los Angeles-based Atchity Entertainment International announced Monday that they had obtained the rights to "The Kennedy Detail." The book was written by former Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine and journalist Lisa McCubbin. Blaine, part of Kennedy's security detail, worked with McCubbin on his first-hand account of serving the president from his election in 1960 through his death on November 22, 1963. "The unique relationship between this President and those charged with his safety is a story that will add a previously unknown perspective into the brief, but well-chronicled era known as the Kennedy Administration," said Dr. Ken Atchity, president of Atchity, who will produce with partner Chi-Li Wong, as well as Rich Ramos and Bob Sparks. They made the "fanciful" comment in a news release about the deal. They hope to release the film in late 2013. An Emmy-nominated documentary based on "The Kennedy Detail," narrated by Martin Sheen, was executive-produced by Atchity and Wong, along with Renegade83, with Blaine and McCubbin serving as producers. It first aired on Discovery Channel in 2010. New feature film planned as 'answer to Oliver Stone's fanciful 'JFK' Published: Monday, April 16, 2012, 11:30 AM Updated: Monday, April 16, 2012, 12:42 PM In marketing Oliver Stone's 1991 New Orleans-shot, Kennedy-assassination conspiracy theory "JFK," Warner Bros. referred to it as "the story that won't go away." Now, some 21 years later, another film company is doing its part to make sure that claim remains true. The Los Angeles-based Atchity Entertainment, in partnership with the Florida-based Ramos & Sparks Group, announced plans today (April 16) for a feature film based on one insider's account of the Kennedy assassination. The production is described it as an "answer to Oliver Stone's fanciful 'JFK.'" The new film will be based on the New York Times bestseller "The Kennedy Detail," written by former Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine - a former member of Kennedy's security detail -- with journalist Lisa McCubbin. The book has already spawned a Discovery Channel documentary, also called "The Kennedy Detail," which was narrated by Martin Sheen and nominated last year for a News and Documentary Emmy in the long-form historical programming category. For its part, Stone's 1991's "JFK" was based on a book by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison who -- unsatisfied with the official line -- launched his own investigation into the assassination. Shooting for two months in town in summer 1991, "JFK" stands as one of highest-profile films to shoot in New Orleans prior to the state's 2002 adoption of filmmaking tax incentives. Upon its release in December 1991, the film earned more than $200 million in worldwide box office, as well as eight Oscar nominations, including for best picture. (It won two, for film editing and cinematography). It also, however, generated no small amount of controversy, as Stone was widely criticized for playing fast and loose with the facts. The new film, producer Rich Ramos says, will be different. "As a life-long student of the Kennedy administration and the events of November 22, 1963, I could see immediately that this book provided a clear picture and keen insight into the everyday workings of the administration as well as that horrible day in Dallas," producer Rich Ramos said today in a news release. "The true story contained in 'The Kennedy Detail' needs to be brought to theaters around the world so that history can be presented accurately, once and for all." Producers are targeting a 2013 release date - exactly 50 years after the assassination -- although it's unclear when production will begin or where it will take place. No cast has been announced.

The Blaine propaganda machine rolls on-the book didn't sway anyone, so he's hoping a movie will

Wow---what trouble I have wrought with my 22-page letter to Clint Hill in June 2005! Seeing that his book didn't sway anyone (public opinion polls haven't changed- the overwhelming majority of people STILL believe there was a conspiracy AND most thinking people know that JFK did NOT order the agents off his limo), Blaine is now going to have a movie based on the book, timed for the 50th anniversary. Too bad for Blaine that Leonardo DiCaprio beat him to the punch- he is coming out with a major PRO conspiracy movie---based on a book I AM IN, "Legacy Of Secrecy"---at the very same time...gee, I wonder which movie people will go to haha? I can see it all now: ole Ken and Jer will employ some cheesey actor to portray JFK and the guy will read from their script: "I command you: get off my limo! That is an order! Now...or else!" Oh, brother. Well, not to worry- public support (and thinking people) are on my/ our side. They won't be fooled. Major Motion Picture Based on THE KENNEDY DETAIL Planned for 50th Anniversary of the JFK assassination Friday, April 13, 2012; 02:04 PM - by BWW News Desk As the 50th anniversary approaches in 2013 for one of the darkest, saddest days in modern American history – the assassination of President John F. Kennedy – plans have been announced for production of a major motion picture based on the New York Times bestselling book, The Kennedy Detail, written by former Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine and award-winning journalist Lisa McCubbin, with a foreword by former agent Clint Hill. Ramos & Sparks Group (R&S) of Tallahassee, Florida, in conjunction with Atchity Entertainment International (AEI) of Los Angeles, California, today announced they have secured the rights and optioned the book for an independent feature film closely following the book, thereby “setting the record straight in answer to Oliver Stone’s fanciful JFK.” The venture will be produced by the collaboration The Kennedy Project, LLC. Blaine, a key member of President John F. Kennedy’s security detail, teamed with McCubbin to provide a first-hand account of protecting the 35th President and his family immediately following his election in November, 1960 through the tragic day in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. This critically acclaimed account was released in late 2010 as the first book written about the President and his family with the cooperation of the men charged with his protection. The first-hand account, told within the 427 pages of The Kennedy Detail and an Emmy-nominated documentary of the same title, is comprised of individual tales of loyalty, honor and ultimately, loss. “This book is about a ‘band of brothers’ who committed their lives every day to guarding the President and his family,” said Dr. Ken Atchity, President of Atchity Entertainment International, who will serve as the film’s producer along with AEI partner Chi-Li Wong. “The unique relationship between this President and those charged with his safety is a story that will add a previously unknown perspective into the brief, but well-chronicled era known as the Kennedy Administration.” “As a life-long student of the Kennedy Administration and the events of November 22, 1963, I could see immediately that this book provided a clear picture and keen insight into the everyday workings of the administration as well as that horrible day in Dallas,” said Rich Ramos, who along with Bob Sparks of Ramos & Sparks Group, will also serve as producers. “The true story contained inThe Kennedy Detail needs to be brought to theaters around the world so that history can be presented accurately, once and for all.” Plans call for a release in late 2013, nearly 50 years to the day of the assassination of President Kennedy. The Emmy-nominated documentary based on The Kennedy Detail, narrated by Martin Sheen, was executive-produced by Ken Atchity and Chi-Li Wong, along with Renegade83, and first aired on Discovery Channel in 2010. Jerry Blaine and Lisa McCubbin also served as producers. Read more: http://movies.broadwayworld.com/article/Major-Motion-Picture-Based-on-THE-KENNEDY-DETAIL-Planned-for-50th-Anniversary-of-Assassination-20120413#ixzz1sCX2SyZ2

Beware any dissent on Amazon LOL

My negative review of Blaine's book...blog "deleted" within 24 hours (came back); My negative review of Alford's book...blog "deleted" within 24 hours (came back)+ 2 Amazon reviews deleted (redone); My 5-star review of Hill's book that contained harsh criticism of Blaine's book...blog/ account "disabled" within 24 hours (came back 6 days later) Coincidence? Vince Palamara P.S. I will always create many more blogs and fight to get "disrupted" blogs back. The powers that be informed me that my blog is secure---at most, just a temporary setback of a day or so. Just goes to show you- SOME people cannot take criticism. :O)

Blaine's book FAILS to debunk Vince Palamara's research

Blaine's book FAILS to debunk Vince Palamara's research, March 27, 2012 By tradabada "trada" (cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews This review is from: The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence (Hardcover) Author and researcher Vince Palamara interviewed and corresponded with many former Secret Service agents and White House aides, years before Blaine's book saw the light of day. They all told him, in a literary landslide, that President Kennedy did NOT order the agents off his limousine in Tampa, Dallas, or anywhere else. It is laughable how defensive Blaine's book is in tone. This would actually be a fine book if not for the blatant propaganda contained herein, which is why I couldn't stoop to even giving it two stars. Avoid.

Ex-agent refuses to toe party line on JFK slaying

Ex-agent refuses to toe party line on JFK slaying

By Ellen Miller, Special To The News
November 20, 2003

GRAND JUNCTION - Lee Harvey Oswald didn't act alone when he killed
President John F. Kennedy, a retired agent said Wednesday, and the
president died because Secret Service agents failed at their jobs.
"Officially, the answer to Oswald when somebody asks - because we
were ordered to say it - is that the Warren Commission found that he
acted alone," retired agent Jerry O'Rourke said. "But was there more
than one gunman? Yes, personally I believe so. And my personal
opinion about Jack Ruby is that he was paid to kill Oswald."

O'Rourke grew up in Telluride and attended Western State and Regis
colleges, then spent 22 years in the Secret Service. Now retired and
back home, he spoke Wednesday to the downtown Grand Junction [COLORADO] Rotary Club [THIS IS THE SAME CITY WHERE GERALD BLAINE LIVES-VMP].

O'Rourke said his group of agents, about 10 of them, had protected
Kennedy the morning of Nov. 22, 1963, at a breakfast speech in Fort
Worth. Then the group left by air for Austin, the next stop planned
for the president's Texas tour.

"We got the word (of the assassination) in the air, and we didn't
believe it at first," he said. "We were joking. But later, most of
the agents had tears in their eyes. Agents believed in Kennedy, and
we knew we failed our job in Dallas."

After his White House tour ended during Johnson's presidency,
O'Rourke spent a year in the Secret Service intelligence division,
which offered him glimpses into the investigation of Kennedy's death.

Those glimpses, and the accounts of other agents, have convinced
O'Rourke that Oswald didn't act alone. He cited several reasons:

Kennedy had a number of enemies, any of whom could have plotted
against him. They included Southerners angered by his insistence on
civil rights; organized crime; labor unions unhappy with
investigations of them by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Cuban
dissidents angry over the failed Bay of Pigs invasion; and FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover.

The shots were impossible to make. O'Rourke learned to shoot as a
boy and trained as a marksman in the military. He said his visits to
Oswald's perch at the Texas Book Depository convince him that no one
could have fired a rifle three times so quickly, hitting the
president and Texas Gov. John Connolly.

The trajectory of one of the shots could not have been made from a
gunman on the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository. The shot
entered Kennedy's body at his lower back and traveled up, to exit
near his throat.

The circumstances of the autopsy were irregular. Texas law requires
autopsies to be done in state, but agents, acting on the orders of
White House, took Kennedy's body back to Washington, D.C. The autopsy
was performed at Bethesda Naval Medical Center under secrecy that
prevails to this day.

Evidence was destroyed. O'Rourke said that on the day of the
assassination, one agent was ordered to clean out the cars used in
the motorcade, getting rid of blood and other evidence. The agent
told O'Rourke that he found a piece of skull, asked the White House
doctor what to do with it, and was told to destroy it.

Instructions were given to lie. The agent in charge of motorcade
protection told O'Rourke that he was told by the Warren Commission
during his testimony that he did not hear a fourth shot and he did
not see someone running across the grassy knoll. But the agent
insisted that his account was accurate.

Evidence about the shots is in conflict. An open microphone on a
motorcycle in the motorcade picked up four shots, not three.

"In my opinion, Hoover wanted the commission to find that Oswald
acted alone," O'Rourke said. "The complete file won't be released
until 2027, and the reason for that is most of us will be dead by
then." [THAT'S O.K.-READ BLAINE'S BOOK IN THE MEANTIME HAHAHA-VMP]

Former JFK Secret Service agents dine at D.C. restaurant

Former JFK Secret Service agents dine at D.C. restaurant February 9, 2012, 3:26 pm by Megan McCourt

SPOTTED: Former Secret Service agents Clinton Hill and Gerald Blaine, who were guarding President John F. Kennedy the day of his assassination.

The pair was seen lunching at LINCOLN, a downtown D.C. restaurant devoted to another famous former president, on Wednesday. The group dined on a braised pork belly Cuban sandwich, salmon, a LINCOLN burger, and lemonades as they sat in the restaurant’s “Lincoln Chair.”

Earlier in the day, Hill and Blaine had some high-flying fun, as the U.S. Park Police took them to the Arlington National Cemetery, the Holocaust Memorial Museum, and on a helicopter ride.

The men have remained mum for nearly 50 years since JFK’s death [false: many spoke to me, while several spoke to others, years before Blaine's book came out], but spoke at park police trainings on Wednesday and Thursday.

Blaine wrote a book called The Kennedy Detail released in 2010 that reveals the details of JFK’s assassination from the Secret Service agents’ point of view.



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"@thehill: Former JFK Secret Service agents back in DC to lecture US Park Police http://t.co/Gd2DGr18" like these r the guys u want advising

Secret Service agent at JFK assassination Clint Hill discovers Larimore link to family

Published November 19, 2011, 11:08 PM
Secret Service agent at JFK assassination discovers Larimore link to family
On Nov. 22, 1963, Geraldine Facey and her mother, Alma Broderson, who had come from Larimore, N.D., to visit her youngest daughter near Seattle, watched in common horror with the rest of America as television reporters broadcast the news of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas. Neither woman had any idea the lone Secret Service agent they saw on the back of the President’s Lincoln limousine after the shooting, reaching for First Lady Jackie Kennedy, was her older brother, her youngest son.
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Concordia College 2011 Alumni Achievement Award-winner Clint Hill, a former Secret Service agent who was with President John F. Kennedy the day he was assassinated, describes climbing onto the car after the gunshot to the audience Wednesday night at Concordia College. Dave Wallis / The Forum
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On Nov. 22, 1963, Geraldine Facey and her mother, Alma Broderson, who had come from Larimore, N.D., to visit her youngest daughter near Seattle, watched in common horror with the rest of America as television reporters broadcast the news of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas.

Neither woman had any idea the lone Secret Service agent they saw on the back of the President’s Lincoln limousine after the shooting, reaching for First Lady Jackie Kennedy, was her older brother, her youngest son.

Clint Hill, the sunglassed Secret Service agent whose profile became burned in the nation’s memory of that day, only recently began talking about the horror of it.

And even more recently he’s talked about his connections to North Dakota, especially his unrelated twin links to Larimore through both his birth mother and the family that adopted him.

Post-traumatic stress

For years after the assassination, Hill was in a deep depression, suffering what now is known as post-traumatic stress syndrome.

“I spent 1972 to 1982 on the couch in my basement, with a bottle of scotch in one hand — Dewar’s, usually — and a carton of cigarettes in the other,” Hill said last month while visiting his alma mater, Concordia College in Moorhead, which honored him. “Guys would come over, Secret Service agents, and try to talk to me and I wouldn’t even get off the couch.”

He thought about suicide a lot, he says.

Forced to retire for his health from the Secret Service in 1975, Hill says he spiraled down even faster with nothing to do.

In the early 1980s his doctor told him he soon would die unless he stopped the free-fall and he pulled himself out of the pits.

Just in time to finally meet, shortly before she died, the woman who gave birth to him and to find another family he hadn’t known about.

Adopted by “marvelous people”

Hill grew up in Washburn, N.D., just north of Bismarck, adopted in 1932 as an infant in Fargo by Chris and Jenny Hill who already had adopted a girl, Janice, in 1927, in Grand Forks.

“They were marvelous people and really gave me a chance in life,” Hill said. “I couldn’t have been adopted by a finer couple than Chris and Jenny Hill. They devoted their life to Janice and myself.”

Little was said to Hill of his origins.

“When I was very young, maybe six years old, a neighbor girl told me I was adopted. I didn’t know what that meant. I went to my mother and asked her. My mother became quite upset. She thought I would think that I wasn’t wanted, or wasn’t really her son. So after that, my sister or I never made any mention of it.”

After Concordia, Hill was drafted into the Army and served three years in intelligence; he joined the Secret Service in 1958.

His sister Janice had also attended Concordia, worked in Grand Forks, then married Oben Gunderson, a farmer from northwest of Larimore and they raised three children.

Hill visited the Gundersons over the years, finding respite working on their farm near Larimore, getting away from his post-assassination trauma.

His father Chris Hill died when Clint was still young. Mother Jenny Hill died in 1974, in the hospital in Northwood, N.D., near Larimore, where his sister Janice — who died in 2002 — had brought her toward the end.

Learning about Alma

Some years after Jenny Hill’s death, a friend in North Dakota knowing of his adoption gave Hill a copy of his birth certificate.

For the first time, he learned the name of his birth mother, Alma Paulson, and that he was born in Larimore.

He learned his mother was born Alma Peterson in Fosston, Minn., in 1893.

“My mother was married to a man named Paulson and had five children before I was born,” Hill said. The oldest, Clarence, was born in 1910.

Alma’s marriage to Henry Paulson ended about 1930.

While she was working at the Violet Hotel in Larimore, she gave birth in January 1932 to the boy who would become Clint Hill. Within weeks, she gave him up to the Fargo Children’s Home.

“So I never did really know who my father was,” Hill said. “I have a suspicion, based on information from one of my sisters, that it was a man my mother worked for, or his brother, whose last name was Vassau.”

After he was adopted, his mother Alma married George Broderson and had another child, Geraldine, in 1934, Hill learned.

Searching for an Alma Broderson in Larimore in 1983, Hill learned from a local Lutheran pastor that she was in the nursing home in nearby Northwood.

(By an unlikely coincidence, the nursing home was part of the same hospital where Hill’s adoptive mother, Jenny Hill, died in 1974.)

Hill found Alma’s room.

“She was in there, asleep or unconscious. I looked at things she had on the wall and realized she had children. I was about ready to walk out when a lady walked in and said ‘What are you doing here? Who are you?’ She told me she was (Alma’s) daughter, her name was Helen. I explained to her who I was and she just about fainted. She knew her mother had had a child back in the early 1930s. Helen was about 16 at the time.”

Meeting a new family

It was an emotional moment for the matter-of-fact-mannered Hill.

“That day I discovered I had a family. I didn’t realize it.”

In 1984, he met Geraldine Facey, Alma’s last child, less than two years younger than Clint.

“She had no idea,” Hill said.

Facey knew her Paulson half-siblings, but says her mother never told her about having a baby in 1932.

“I didn’t find out about him until I was 50. It was really something, just the idea I had another sibling,” Facey said last week from her home in Marysville, Wash., just north of Seattle. “He looks like my Mom, from the picture I have of him. I have only seen him once.”

Hill also met Paulsons in and around Larimore, grandchildren of his mother from her first marriage, as well as his half-brother, Clarence Paulson, who died in 1986.

Everett Paulson of Larimore, also saw a family resemblance in his “new” uncle.

“Clint looked like my grandmother Alma.”

Facey can’t forget that day in 1963, too, that made her brother Clint a hero in the eyes of the nation, recognized for his courage and duty.

“I know exactly where I was, what I was doing, when I think back,” Facey said last week. “I was in my home and my mother was there with me. She was visiting with us. We both sat and watched it.”

Yet both had no inkling that the Secret Service agent they saw on the president’s limo and near Jackie Kennedy that long weekend into the funeral was their kin.

“She didn’t know, because I didn’t know,” Facey said of their mother, Alma. “I remember seeing it happen and I had no idea that was my brother. I didn’t know anything about him.”

Hill isn’t sure his birth mother ever realized who he was.

“At the time I met her, she had had a couple of strokes and didn’t have the ability to talk. I don’t know if she knew who I was at all.”

Alma died in 1984 in Northwood shortly after Hill’s visit.

She is buried in Bellevue Cemetery on the hill north of Larimore.

Gene Swanson and her family lived next door to Alma Broderson in the mid-1950s.

“She was a very sweet lady,” said Swanson, who heard only in recent years about the Clint Hill connection and that Alma would weep at times over the baby boy she had to give up. “She didn’t have a lot, no doubt about that,” Swanson said. “She babysat my son, Ron, when he was about three. Ron used to stand in the window, waiting for her and when he saw her, he would say, ‘Here comes my Broderson.’ He really liked her.”

Readers think "The Kennedy Detail" is pure garbage- sorry, Jer.

5.0 out of 5 stars Lone Gunman? Yeah, Right!, November 16, 2011
By Homer - See all my reviewsThis review is from: Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK (Hardcover)
Well done, Mr. Lane! The arguments and evidence outlined in your book thoroughly eviscerate establishment "conclusions" blaming only a disgruntled lone gunman for JFK's assassination. "Last Word" is laid out to analyze in a manner that builds a very convincing circumstantial case for CIA involvement. Well researched and with plenty of references for further study, this book is worth the read.

Publishers Weekly review of Mark Lane's "Last Word"

Publishers Weekly

In his third book on the Kennedy assassination (Plausible Denial), attorney Lane builds a circumstantial case for CIA involvement—though in an appendix he says he does not identify “those who assassinated” Kennedy because he has been “unable to secure sufficient factual information.” Lane breaks down the assassination into all of its moving parts and examines the actions of Secret Service agents who many agree botched protocol. Lane says the Warren Commission report on the assassination was awash with faulty logic, twisting forensic evidence to fit its preconception that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone shooter. Lane’s contention about the CIA’s role rests on reports that the agency feared Kennedy might disband it after the Bay of Pigs; there was also anger at the president’s attempts to interact peacefully with Castro. The CIA, Lane says, made Oswald the fall guy and provided men found on the “grassy knoll”—where many believe the deadly shots were fired—with Secret Service credentials.

Memories of JFK assassination haunt former Secret Service agent and North Dakota native

Memories of JFK assassination haunt former Secret Service agent and North Dakota native

MOORHEAD - Nov. 22, 1963, is on Clint Hill’s mind every day. The former Secret Service agent assigned to protect Jackie Kennedy the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated is still haunted with guilt nearly 50 years later.

By: Amy Dalrymple, INFORUM

Former Secret Service agent Clint Hill talks about the day JFK was assassinated

MOORHEAD - Nov. 22, 1963, is on Clint Hill’s mind every day.

The former Secret Service agent assigned to protect Jackie Kennedy the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated is still haunted with guilt nearly 50 years later.

The Washburn, N.D., native and Concordia College graduate was on the running board of the car behind the presidential limousine in Dallas. He heard the first shot and jumped onto the presidential vehicle in an attempt to shield the Kennedys from gunshots. Hill made it just as the first lady was reaching for the top of Kennedy’s scalp.

He received recognition for “extraordinary courage and heroic effort in the face of maximum danger.”

But Hill, who battled depression and alcoholism for years as a result of that day, still wonders if he could have done more.

“I still have a sense of responsibility and a guilt feeling I should have been able to do more, because I was the only one who had that chance,” Hill said in an interview last week with The Forum.

Hill, who served five presidents during his time with the Secret Service, will return to Concordia this week to accept an Alumni Achievement Award.

“I tried to tell them that I didn’t think I was worthy of the honor, but they insisted,” said the 79-year-old, who now lives in the Washington, D.C., area.

Hill also will give a public talk on Wednesday night, along with Lisa McCubbin, co-author of “The Kennedy Detail,” which gives the Secret Service agents’ account of the assassination.

North Dakota native

Hill was born in 1932 in Larimore, N.D., and was adopted as a baby by Chris and Jennie Hill of Washburn.

Hill graduated from high school in Washburn and attended Concordia, where he majored in history and physical education and excelled at football and baseball.

After Hill graduated from Concordia in 1954, he served in the U.S. Army as an intelligence agent.

Hill’s Secret Service career began in 1958.

When Kennedy was elected, Hill anticipated he would be assigned to protect the president because he had been assigned to President Dwight Eisenhower.

He was shocked to learn that he’d instead be protecting the first lady.

“I was very upset about it,” Hill said. “I didn’t really want that assignment.”

But it turned out to be the best job in the Secret Service at the time, Hill said.

Jackie Kennedy and Hill built up a trust and became friends, though she always called him Mr. Hill, and he always called her Mrs. Kennedy.

“We shared secrets, and we got to know each other very well,” Hill said.

That historic day in Dallas was unusual because the first lady was campaigning with Kennedy, something she often shied away from doing.

During the motorcade, Hill was positioned behind Jackie Kennedy on the follow-up car and was scanning people taking photos from a grassy area off to the left.

Then he heard an explosive noise over his right shoulder, and his eyes scanned past the presidential vehicle.

“I saw the president grab at his throat and kind of move to his left. I knew something had happened,” Hill said.

“I jumped from the follow-up car and ran toward the presidential vehicle,” he said. “My attempt was to get on the back of the presidential car and place my body above the president and Mrs. Kennedy so that I would shield them from anything that was a possibility of happening.

“There was a second shot, apparently, but I didn’t hear it because I was running.

“Then the third shot happened just as I was approaching the presidential vehicle. I slipped, had to regain my steps, got up on the car. The president had been hit in the upper right rear of his head with that third shot.

“There were blood and brain matter and bone fragments throughout the entire area, including myself. He slumped to his left. Mrs. Kennedy came up from her seat onto the trunk of the car trying to grab some of the material that came off his head. … I grabbed her and put her back into her seat. When I did that, the president’s body fell into her lap.

“The right side of his face was up, and I could see his eyes were fixed. There was a hole in the upper right rear of his head. It appeared to me that he was dead.”

Hill gave a thumbs-down to the follow-up car, and agents yelled to the lead driver to go to Parkland Hospital. Hill continued lying on the back of the car to shield the Kennedys as the car sped 80 mph to the hospital.

‘Downward spiral’

After the assassination, Hill continued to be assigned to the first lady and the children until the election.

He was then assigned to President Lyndon Johnson and served him during the tumultuous time that included the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy.

Hill also protected Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

In 1970, a promotion had Hill working an administrative desk job, and for the first time since the assassination, he had time to think. That day in Dallas was never far from his mind.

“I gradually deteriorated emotionally, and that affected my physical well-being,” Hill said.

In 1975, doctors said he wasn’t fit for the Secret Service, and he retired at age 43.

Hill returned to North Dakota and worked on his sister’s farm for about six weeks, “trying to get everything out.”

That year, he also spoke about the assassination for the first time in a famous interview with Mike Wallace of “60 Minutes.” Prior to that, Hill hadn’t talked about that day with anyone, not even his family.

Hill’s emotional state only worsened in his retirement.

“By 1976, I was once again in a downward spiral, and that lasted until 1982,” Hill said. “I had a great big bottle of scotch and a carton of cigarettes, and I laid on a couch in my very dark basement.”

Then in 1982, a doctor told Hill he either had to change or die.

“I decided I wanted to live,” Hill said.

Without any help, Hill quit drinking and did some security work for Chrysler, Mesa Petroleum and Billy Graham during the 1980s.

Decades after the assassination, Hill was still not talking about that day. He declined to be interviewed in 2003 for the 40th anniversary of the event.

“I didn’t want to talk about any of this type of thing and never did,” Hill said. “We as agents never talked about the assassination among ourselves. I never discussed it with any member of my family.”

Then fellow Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine and journalist Lisa McCubbin began working on the book “The Kennedy Detail.”

Hill said McCubbin convinced him that it would benefit history if he revealed details of that day from his perspective.

Contributing to the book proved to be beneficial for Hill, and he’s now talking more openly about that day for the first time, nearly 50 years later.

Hill and McCubbin also are collaborating on a book, “Mrs. Kennedy and Me,” that will be published in the spring of 2012.

In 1990, Hill did something he wishes he would have done earlier: He returned to Dallas and walked Dealey Plaza and looked out the window of the sixth floor.

“I came to the conclusion that on that particular day, because of everything involved, the weather, the angle of the building, the way the street was configured and the way the motorcade was running at the time that I did everything I could, and I really couldn’t have done any more than that,” Hill said.

Ex-secret service agent reveals secrets of Jackie Kennedy - an ‘accomplished flirt’

Ex-secret service agent reveals secrets of Jackie Kennedy - an ‘accomplished flirt’

There was a reason for her signature style choices

By ANTOINETTE KELLY,IrishCentral.com Staff Writer


Published Saturday, October 1, 2011, 8:24 AMUpdated Saturday, October 1, 2011, 8:24 AM




Jackie O wore those over-sized glasses for a reason.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had an undefinable allure in life and it's legend will live on forever it seems.

Although her candid interviews with Arthur Schlesinger Jr in 1964 released earlier this month surprised and even shocked many, there's little doubt they will do serious damage to the former First Lady's reputation.

This week a series of new interviews with her closest friends has revealed even further details about Jackie, who passed away in 1994.

Former Secret Service agent Clint Hill, who worked closely with her husband JFK in the White House, spoke to People magazine this week about the woman he remembers.

Speaking of the couple he said: "They relied on each other. They were very, very close."

But in all the time he knew them he very rarely ever saw them show any physical affection in public.

The Kennedy marriage was by no means perfect either, it emerged. While the public was shocked to hear of JFK's infidelities after his death in 1963, his wife was not the last to know.

Laurence Leamer, author of The Kennedy Women called her the "queen of denial," referring to her ability to overlook what she knew to be a fact.

And Kennedy was by no means a retiring bloom when it came to social interactions.

"I don't think I've met a more accomplished flirt," admitted friend John Perry Barlow. "It was the best I'd ever seen because it was based on genuine interest. She could be talking to five or six guys and have each of them think he was the real object of her focus."

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As for her personal style, one of the things that defined her, there was a reason she adopted some signature accoutrements, it turns out.

The large round sun glasses that became her calling card were actually adopted to allow her to watch other people without them knowing, Jackie Style author Pamela Keogh revealed.

And as for those ubiquitous white gloves, "It was to hide her hands," Keogh said. "She was self-conscious because she bit her nails."

It's now 17 years since Jackie died from non-Hodgkins lymphoma, but there's no question the mystique that surrounds her and her husband is undiminished.

LOL---someone posted this on Lisa McCubbin's Amazon Author Page

did you use Vincent Palamaras research in your book?
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did you use Vincent Palamaras research in your book?



A year later TO THE DATE...and the silence is deafening :O)

I was right: most of the 5-star reviews for Blaine's book ARE plants!

For what it's worth (not that there is anything wrong with this, per se, but it IS a matter of ethics):

Nathan Hale and countless other "reviewers" of Blaine's book are Facebook friends of his, as I just discovered. I wrote a detailed blog a few months back chronicling my suspicions, as many of the too-glowing "reviews" originated with people from Blaine's home state of Colorado, reviewed ONLY his book (no other products), and/ or were admitted friends and associates of either himself or his associates. Facebook provided the confirmation LOL :O)


Here's the latest fraud:


If you only read x1 book about JFK... Make it this one., September 25, 2011
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This review is from: The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence (Hardcover)
Compelling and well written, this book makes the 'conspiracy theorists' look pitiful and deluded [dream on]. The fact that the 'conspiracy theory' JFK notion is so huge, seems in many peoples mind to imbue it with credibility [no, there are plenty of facts, NOT found in Blaine's book, that make people believe/ know there was a conspiracy]. Sorry, but fact's have credibility, emotional pandering to widesread paranoia does not [hahaha]. I wanted to know more about JFK and the assasination, and not have to put up with annoying theories that rely on the weakest evidence [hmmm---like the actual words from the AGENTS THEMSELVES via letters and calls from Vince Palamara that pre-date this book? Were they all lying to Vince?], I read this book and was glad I did [we're all happy for you...]. Furthermore, upon having read it I feel sure that JFK himself would rather the story be told by his most trusted aides [the same ones that let him get killed???]rather than some half baked 'author' trying to make a name for himself in history in rather the same way as Oswald himself was [this is a lame jab at me haha]. The fact Clint Hill, Mrs Kennedys trusted agent, put his name to this book speaks for itself [it only "speaks" to the fact that he's best friends with Blaine and he was angered by my 22-page letter that also angered Blaine].


Hey, Jer---lame lame lame :O) Oh, and prepare for legendary best-selling author Mark Lane's major book on the assassination "The Last Word": he uses MY materials and will further debunk your book. Better have all your troops ready...perhaps have your attorney write Lane a letter like you did to me: he's an attorney, too, and would appreciate a good laugh like I did, as well :O)

Vince Palamara brand new White House, Treasury Bldg, & EOB videos 9/9/11

THE WHITE HOUSE & A ROOFTOP Secret Service Agent- Vince Palamara & The Kennedy Detail



THE WHITE HOUSE & Executive Office Building- Vince Palamara & The Kennedy Detail



THE WHITE HOUSE- Vince Palamara & The Kennedy Detail



THE WHITE HOUSE & A ROOFTOP Secret Service Agent- Vince Palamara



THE WHITE HOUSE & Executive Office Building- Vince Palamara & The Kennedy Detail




THE WHITE HOUSE- Vince Palamara & The Kennedy Detail




The Treasury Building- Vince Palamara & The Kennedy Detail

The Kennedy Detail- JFK's Secret Service agents

The Kennedy Detail- JFK's Secret Service agents





A Vince Palamara discovery at the JFK Library in December 2008 (circa Summer 1962). This is from a photographic briefing book done at the request of President Kennedy, in order for him to properly put names to faces and vice versa. Perhaps Greer was not included because, as one of JFK's primary drivers, JFK was already much aware of him...or he did not wish to participate? Agents who came before and after the Summer of 1962 are not included for obvious reasons (timing of briefing book)
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December 16-17 1961 - President John F. Kennedy visits Venezuela and Colombia

December 16-17 1961 - President John F. Kennedy visits Venezuela and Colombia



MORE Blaine lies exposed: agents on rear of limo, nice speed of cars, full bubbletop (no rain; nice weather), good motorcycle formation, press/ photographers in front of JFK's limo

'a guide on how to cover your a** after a tragedy'

'a guide on how to cover your a** after a tragedy'
I am mixed on my review for this one... On one hand its an interesting read with some great inside info on the behind the scenes goings of the secret service; on the other hand I detested the third person narrative it was written in. It really could have been written without all of the whining about lack of sleep, etc.... I also didn't like how the book seemingly blamed Kennedy for his own murder or the ignorant stance that The Warren Report was correct.... Please! These men were enlisted to protect the president and failed. That is a terrible tragedy in its self but don't take the stance that Kennedy had a death wish when the agents rolled over and didn't stand up and realistically relay the risks.
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My review is strictly focused on the literary work and it is abominable. Were it possible to give less than one star, I would have done so.
The narrative jumps all over the place. One cannot keep track of which date is being referred to ergo place goes completely out the window.
There is an annoying repetition of information, which quite often contradicts the one preceding it.
It is mystifying how conversations are quoted fifty years after having supposedly taken place.
Some of the minutiae is mind numbing.
As I have the audio version, the reading cannot go without comment. The feeble attempts to speak in JFK's accent are worse than those of a third rate Vegas lounge celebrity imitator. The Southern accents can be described as nothing more than degrading, demeaning and thoroughly insulting to even the lowest form of "Bubbaism" known to the spoken word. There is no consistency in the pronunciation of words such as Caroline - Carolyn. Come on pick one and stick with it!
I am about half way through this, the combination of the sloppy writing and awful narration have slaughtered my interest in finishing. So many books, so little time = why waste another moment on something as disappointing as this? Read Jim Douglass, Vince Palamara, and Mark Lane instead.
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The book bears little evidence of having been written by someone with Blaine's background in security and technology. It gushes, it emotes, and it burdens readers with overabundance of trivial detail like travel writers. And, judging by her website, that is precisely what the "with author," Lisa McCubbin typically does for a living. It isn't hard to conclude that she was not the person who should have written this book.
That's unfortunate, because it could have been an important resource for historians for generations to come. Numerous interviews were conducted with the agents involved, but what we learn from them is the clothes they wore, the food they ate, and their feelings at particular moments. That's the stuff of travelogues but not of serious history.
Even worse, at critical points in the narrative the author seems unaware of the historical significance of what is taking place. One example is the clash that takes place between the local medical examiner and Secret Service agents over what is to be done with the President's body. Her focus isn't on what matters, the serious blunders that were being made by removing the President's body and limousine from the scene of the crime, it's on what Jacqueline Kennedy may have been feeling at that particular moment. McCubbin, whose adoration of the Kennedy's leaves her less than objective at times, seems unaware that in every other crime the victim's family simply have to cope with what criminal investigations require. Many of the conspiracies theories, which McCubbin clumsily dismisses near the end of the book, were born out of those blunders.
Finally, like others, I feel this book reads all too much like something that might have been written for Woman's Day magazine circa 1965. This book, in which "JFK's Secret Service Agents Break their Silience" contains almost nothing that those agents needed to be silent about. No one cares what they had for breakfast on that fateful day, and the details of the motorcade in which they participated have been known for decades. Others have described how the morale of JFK's Secret Service agents were destroyed by his pathological womanizing, which required unknown women to be smuggled into the White House or his hotel room at strange hours. But you will find not a word about that here. In this bit of romantic fiction, JFK was an ideal father in a storybook marriage. Lisa McCubbin didn't have to dwell on that sordid side of the Kennedy Presidency. But she should have at least shown us she was aware of it and discussed those aspects of it that were relevant to his Secret Service protection (Vince Palamara is a far better source).
In short, this book fails to deliver on its promises.
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"The Kennedy Detail" takes poetic license regarding some crucial matters. For one, there was NO morning-of-JFK's-funeral meeting with Chief Rowley OTHER than to discuss the security for Jackie's walk to St. Matthews Cathedral. Everyone from this 47-year-old meeting---other than Blaine--- is conveniently dead and there is no documentation for this meeting to discuss JFK's alleged comments ("order") to remove the agents in Tampa on 11/18/63, used as a very lame excuse for why the agents weren't there on 11/22/63 (as agent Win Lawson said, there were no standing orders for the agents to stay off the back of the car and the matter never came to his attention---so much for the advance agents getting wind of these "orders"). Many agents and NON AGENTS (a crucial distinction Blaine doesn't get) have denied that JFK ever interfered with the Secret Service (what "code" would the NON SECRET SERVICE AGENTS have been following, Mr. Blaine?). In addition, Blaine makes a big deal about CE1025, the 5 reports submitted to Chief Rowley in April 1964 (only because the Warren Commission asked) regarding any statements JFK may have made regarding agents being on the rear of his car. Besides the fact that two of the agents---SAIC Behn & ASAIC Boring---denied the substance of their reports to the self-described "Secret Service expert" Blaine seeks to denigrate in "The Kennedy Detail", these reports were NOT just released in 1992, as Blaine alleges, but have been available since 1964, when the Warren Commission released their 26 volumes of hearings and exhibits for sale and library holdings. If that weren't enough, many major newspapers (such as The New York Times) and massive best-selling books (such as Jim Bishop's "The Day Kennedy Was Shot") made a great issue out of these after-the-fact reports; nothing whatsoever hidden there (and the aforementioned "Secret Service expert" [unnamed: Vince Palamara] has discussed these reports many times, as have others). As for the supposed Rybka misidentification, Rybka's family and a couple former agents were fooled, as well (especially considering the fact that both Emory Roberts and Win Lawson 'mistakenly' placed Rybka IN the follow-up car in their reports, only to 'correct' the record later). This also does not address the fact that Emory Roberts can clearly be seen rising in his seat and, using hand gestures, tells the agents (whether Rybka or, as Blaine states, Don Lawton) to fall back from the car, the agent raises his hands several times in response, Paul Landis makes room for the agent in the follow-up car, and the agents and aides in the follow-up car, without smiling, follow the agents' seeming perplexed reaction as the cars move on without him. Finally, with regard to the figurative "back stabbing" (not intended) Blaine states the "Secret Service expert" made with regard to documenting what the former agents said, keep in mind: if there was NO record, WHO would choose to believe what was said to a total stranger (especially over the word of former agents)? In the vernacular of today, "it is what it is": the former agents---AND NON AGENTS---said what they said and wrote what they wrote.
With that in mind, "The Kennedy Detail" is a book I recommend everyone buy and read---some very good information and photos, written by a good and honorable man who is obviously a very good and caring friend of his former comrades in arms, who, with a few noteable exceptions, are equally good and honorable men who were just doing their jobs and following orders when JFK was killed.
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As the leading civilian authority on the Secret Service, especially regarding the JFK/ LBJ era, and as someone who interviewed and/ or corresponded with close to 80 former agents between 1990-2006 (roughly double the number of former agents interviewed for this book), I was, needless to say, very much interested in what former agent and author Gerald Blaine (a nice gentleman I spoke to twice and corresponded with several times via e-mail), along with co-author Lisa McCubbin and fellow former agent Clint Hill (a very close friend of Blaine's to whom I had sent a 22-page letter to and spoke to very briefly and who also wrote the Foreword), had to say about President Kennedy and the tragic events of November 22, 1963, when the Secret Service failed in the worst way, costing the nation the life of our President. As a total stranger and an outsider, my contacts with the former agents were very much in the "cross examination" mode (often eliciting begrudging, not-too-friendly responses), while, as a trusted insider, it is fair to say that Blaine's contacts would be of the "direct/ friendly examination" variety. This dichotomy will become important for a number of reasons.
I am as certain as a human being can be that it was my lengthy letter to Clint Hill that led to the genesis of this book----I sent it in June of 2005 and received a very cantankerous "non-reply" when I phoned the gentleman this same time period. Also, during this very same time period, as Blaine admitted to the Daily Sentinel's Bob Silbernagel for his 5/23/10 article, Blaine began contacting as many living former agents who served President Kennedy for his book as he could (it is important to note that I also made contacts with Mr. Blaine during this time period, as well). Why am I so certain that my letter was a catalyst? As an ardent critic of the Secret Service's performance in Dallas (going much further than the two government "investigations", the Warren Commission and the HSCA), I sent Mr. Hill, in effect, a "Cliff Notes" version of my research for my own book ("Survivor's Guilt: The Secret Service & The Failure To Protect The President"), spelling out why I came to be certain that fellow former agents Floyd Boring (the number two agent on the Kennedy Detail and the Secret Service planner of the Texas trip), Shift Leader Emory Roberts (the commander of the agents in the follow-up car in Dallas), and William Greer (the driver of JFK's limousine on 11/22/63) were grossly negligent before, during, and after JFK was assassinated. Judging by Mr. Hill's "response" (or lack thereof), my attempt to address my concerns did not go over very well, to put it mildly.
As it bears directly on "The Kennedy Detail" , just what specifically are my concerns? Simply put: many of these former agents (and several White House aides), including several who passed away years before this book was even a thought, such as the number one agent on the Kennedy Detail, Gerald Behn; one of the three Shift Leaders, Arthur Godfrey; the number two agent on LBJ's detail (who ALSO had protected JFK), Rufus Youngblood; Sam Kinney, the driver of the follow-up car in Dallas; Robert Bouck, the Special-Agent-In-Charge of the Protective Research Section; Frank Stoner of the Protective Research Section; Maurice Martineau, the Acting-Special- Agent- In- Charge of the Chicago Office who protected JFK from '61-'63 whenever he came to the area; John Norris of the Uniformed Division; Dave Powers, the former curator of the JFK Library who rode in the follow-up car many times, including on 11/22/63; author Helen O'Donnell, daughter of the late Ken O'Donnell, JFK's Chief of Staff (based on her father's many audio tapes); and many others, told me, in no uncertain terms, that President Kennedy was a very nice man, NEVER interfered with the actions of the Secret Service, and, most importantly, DID NOT ORDER THE AGENTS OFF HIS CAR.
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