2 great new reviews of Blaine's book

Decent but Sanitized Account, April 22, 2012 By Scout (Whitehouse Station, NJ United States) - See all my reviewsAmazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence (Paperback) Not a bad read, some interesting tidbits, but overall, it appears to be an extremely "G" rated version, especially in protecting the reputation of JFK and of course the secret service. Whereas the authors admit that Johnson could often be a crude pig in language and actions, they place JFK in a holy light. The book also repeats constantly a Kennedy quote about "Ivy League charlatans" that appears to try and convince (brainwash?) the reader into what was simply an off-hand quote/joke by JFK into a proclamation of strict procedure protocol. Interesting Read - But Video Tells A Different Story, April 23, 2012 By Patriot Sailor "Patriot Sailor" (New York City) - See all my reviewsThis review is from: The Kennedy Detail (Kindle Edition) I was reluctant to review this book out of respect to the Secret Service as a whole -- but since this is about the President Kennedy's detail, then I will focus on them -- and I have to agree with former Secret Service Agent Abraham Bolden: This IS the biggest CYA book to come about in a long time. While there are plenty of interesting factoids about how the Secret Service operated, impressions of the Kennedys, and of others associated with them, The President's Secret Service Detail left John F. Kennedy a sitting duck. PERIOD. The agent's claim that JFK didn't want agents around him ALL the time is partially true. Kennedy was known for sneaking out of the White House -- as was reported by actor Kirk Douglas. JFK popped in during a cocktail party where Douglas was in attendance and wanted to meet him. No one at the party knew JFK was coming to say "hello". HOWEVER -- the book's claim that JFK wanted agents off his limo is 100% FALSE. This is where the book loses all credibility. Veteran researcher Vincent M. Palamara, interviewed the following agents in 1998 and they all denied JFK said such a thing happened for the Dallas trip: *Gerald A. Behn (chief of JFK's detail), *Floyd M. Boring (#2 JFK detail agent), *Arthur L. Godfrey (one of three shift leaders on the Texas trip), *Donald J. Lawton (on the Dallas JFK detail), *Rufus W. Youngblood (#2 agent on Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's detail), *Samuel A. Kinney (driver of the Secret Service follow-up car in Dallas), *Robert I. Bouck (head of the Protective Research Section), *Robert Lilley (a member of JFK's detail from election night until one month before Dallas), *Maurice G. Martineau (agent in charge of the Chicago office) and *John Norris (a member of the Uniformed Division) Now -- for the BLAME: Secret Service Agent [Donald Lawton] actually TRIED to get on the back of Kennedy's limo and ride it starting at the airport before the limo left for Dealy Plaza! You can see the video on YouTube if you don't believe me. Agent [Lawton] was ORDERED OFF THE LIMO -- and it WAS NOT by Kennedy. WHO gave the order? Secret Service agent Emory P. Roberts who served as the COMMANDER of the agents in the follow-up car (the 1956 Cadillac limo right behind JFK's). You can see the video where Roberts gets up from his seat, uses voice hand gestures and FORCES Agent [Lawton]to FALL BACK to the rear area of JFK's limousine. [Lawton] stops and then raises his arms several times in disgust. [Lawton] remained at the airport -- leaving the President to be murdered. Frankly, I would have disobeyed the order -- I have served in the military and if you are given an unlawful order, you are bound by your duty to disobey it. WHY the authors of this book -- ESPECIALLY Agent Clint Hill -- does not make any critical commentary about Agent Roberts INSANITY is beyond comprehension. WHY did Roberts do it? No one knows or no one is talking -- and they better hurry up! People are getting old! The other HUGE BLAME falls upon Kennedy's drivers: Agent William Robert Greer (driver) and Agent Roy Kellerman (back-up/passenger). Simply put, they violated every rule of the road regarding the protection of the President when they turned the corner on to Elm Street. They violated the minumum speed mandates and actually SAW the President was in distress and NEVER reacted in time. The two agents sure did DUCK after the fatal shot to the President -- Way to go guys! Nothing like protecting yourselves! That's in the video too -- and it turns my stomach every time I watched it. Watch the videos/films of the murder (Zapruder film, Nix film) -- you can actually SEE the brake lights coming on the limo at one point during the shooting -- AND you can see the agents TURN AROUND and LOOK RIGHT AT KENNEDY as he's being shot BEFORE the fatal head shot. (BTW -- Look up "unedited Altgens Photo" and you will see the agents looking BEHIND THEM -- and NOT UP at the 6th floor depository window. If the volly of shots came from the 6th floor window, why aren't the agents looking up? They never look up during the Zapruder film -- seriously -- they are supposed to be the best body guards in the world -- trained in arms and they didn't do squat until it was too late.) The actions of these three men changed the course of American history. I have my own suspicions -- but this isn't the place. The fact that this book tried to blame KENNEDY for his own murder is nothing short of amazing and disgusting -- especially since there is OVERWHELMING TESTIMONY and VIDEO evidence proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Kennedy's Secret Service Detail 100% FAILED to protect the President. That's not my opinion -- that's a FACT.

Ken Giannoules guarded Kennedy one night, Johnson the next, later Nixon, Ford, a queen ...

Former Secret Service agent talks about his career Ken Giannoules guarded Kennedy one night, Johnson the next, later Nixon, Ford, a queen ... Article posted: 4/22/2012 8:00 AM By Burt Constable ..For Secret Service Agent Ken Giannoules, his overnight shift guarding President Kennedy in Fort Worth, Texas, extended into the morning of Nov. 22, 1963. As JFK departed for Dallas, Giannoules flew to Austin, where he prepared to guard the president again that night. “One night we were with President Kennedy, and the next night we were with President Johnson,” remembers Giannoules, 71, who retired from the Secret Service in 1981 and now lives in Arlington Heights. The agent was about to go to sleep that afternoon, in preparation for working another shift that started at midnight, when news broke that President Kennedy had been assassinated. Giannoules and the other agents in Kennedy's overnight guard flew back to Washington, D.C., on a military plane, and were working for Lyndon Baines Johnson just hours after the new president took the oath of office. Advertisement “When we were at President Johnson's residence, we were walking around with Tommy guns at the ready,” recalls Giannoules, who notes that agents generally carried revolvers and showed no evidence that they were armed. “It was a very stressful situation.” A quiet, modest man who has to be coaxed into telling stories about his years in the White House, Giannoules says he's only talking about his experiences now because his friend and former co-worker Clint Hill is coming to the Wood Dale Public Library on Tuesday night to talk about his best-selling memoir, “Mrs. Kennedy and Me.” Hill was the agent who scrambled onto the back of the presidential limousine convertible after the first shot hit the president. Hill corralled the first lady, dragged her into the back seat and covered her and the mortally wounded president with his body. In a memorable “60 Minutes” interview in 1975, Hill, who clamored into the car in less than two seconds, blamed himself for not being quicker. All the men in charge of the president's safety felt Hill's pain. “We collectively had a job to do,” Giannoules says somberly. “Whether we are there or not, we didn't do the job.” He and his fellow agents on the midnight-to-8 a.m. shift that day didn't feel guilt, but they still wondered if they could have prevented the tragedy, Giannoules says. “If we had been there, maybe we would have seen something, maybe we could have done something,” he says. As a nation mourned, Giannoules and the other agents worked. “We had not had a chance to grieve about it,” says Giannoules, noting there were no grief counselors, no post-traumatic stress therapy nor even any down time. “We were so busy trying to keep the new guy alive.” While Giannoules said the relationship was always professional, President Kennedy called Giannoules by his first name, met his Greek immigrant parents (Steve and Eleftheria) during a visit to Chicago and laughed when the father asked about his son's job performance. “From then on, whenever the president would see me on post, he'd say, ‘Ken, tell Steve you are doing a good job,'” Giannoules says. The days after JFK's assassination are still a blur to the former agent. A photograph of the Kennedy funeral shows Giannoules standing near French President Charles de Gaulle and Queen Frederika of Greece on the steps of St. Matthew's Cathedral, hours after his night shift should have ended. “I only remember that because there's a picture of it,” Giannoules says. “I didn't remember working the funeral.” He says he repressed the memory of standing with other agents around JFK's flag-draped casket in the White House the day after the shooting until he read his name in a passage about that moment in “The Kennedy Detail,” another recent book written by fellow agent and friend, Gerald Blaine. “It was just us in the East Room,” Giannoules says, recalling that private moment for staff members before the president's body was moved to lie in state in the Capitol rotunda. The agents continued working for the new president. “We never talked about November 22,” says Giannoules, who left the 35-member White House detail while Johnson was still president. “We were a very close fraternity.” He worked with several presidents and their families during his more than 20-year career with the Secret Service. He was an advance man in Greece, where he spoke the native language, setting up security for Jacqueline Kennedy when she vacationed after the death of her infant son, Patrick. Giannoules was with President Kennedy at the hospital when the president's son died. His scrapbooks bring back memories of his first duty at the White House, when President Eisenhower entertained guests on the U.S.S. Sequoia Presidential Yacht while Giannoules followed on a Navy PT boat. “As a 10-year-old, I built a model of a PT boat,” gushes Giannoules, who admits that the boat ride excited him more than being in the company of the president. “Life doesn't get any better than that.” Another memorable trip with Eisenhower was a golf outing to Augusta National Golf Club, home of the famed Masters golf tournament. “I didn't know golf. I was a Cubs fan all the way,” says Giannoules, who never got to play but did walk the golf course carrying “a golf bag with two beat-up clubs and a carbine.” He visited 52 countries and the Vatican. He provided security for the queen of England. He spent a tense night in Cambodia guarding Vice President Spiro Agnew. He was in the presence of big-time celebrities such as Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, and was next to the president in Madison Square Garden in 1962 when Marilyn Monroe crooned a sultry rendition of “Happy Birthday” to Kennedy. “I was in all those places, but I didn't see all those places,” Giannoules adds, noting that his focus on security kept him from sightseeing. He made $4,980 a year when he first started guarding presidents, and he had an expense allowance of $12 a day for hotel, food, laundry and other incidentals. “We ate a lot of baloney sandwiches,” the Secret Service agent says. “How glamorous is that?” Giannoules declines to comment on the current investigation into allegations Secret Service agents partied with prostitutes in Colombia, but he makes it clear that the agents he worked with a half-century ago were strait-laced and represented their nation well. He also says he never saw any presidents engage in untoward behavior. He was there to protect the office of the president. “We're not there to be buddy-buddy with the president,” he says. “If they knew you and called you by name or you were just a fly on the wall, it made no difference.” Eisenhower had the formal air of a statesman and war hero, while Kennedy was “a completely different personality” and made a point of learning every agent's name, the agent notes. “Johnson would only recognize you if you were from Texas,” Giannoules says. At a villa in Greece, Jacqueline Kennedy leaned out the window and called him by name. “I was astounded she knew my name,” remembers Giannoules, who spent several assignments with Jacqueline Kennedy. “The most touching thing was when I got this note from Mrs. Kennedy,” Giannoules says, showing a handwritten note addressed to him in January of 1964 and signed by the former first lady. “Thank you for all you did for the president,” it reads. After he left the White House detail, Giannoules served his country as chief of INTERPOL, the international police organization, before ending his Secret Service career in 1981 as the special agent in charge of the Secret Service's Chicago Field Office. A frequent lecturer and adviser on security issues, Giannoules then founded Aegis Services, a private security service whose clients included Oprah Winfrey. For safety, he keeps his mementos in a locked facility not at his home, including photographs showing him on guard for every president and former and future president from Harry Truman through George H.W. Bush. The books by Hill and Blaine have been “cathartic,” Giannoules says, admitting that it's made him share some stories with his family for the first time. Dianne, his wife since 1990, hasn't heard some of the stories he tells during this interview. “When I met him, he said he was a truck driver,” Dianne says, adding that she fell in love with the man, not his career. Now Ken Giannoules says he appreciates the history he saw firsthand and the people he got to meet. “We knew our place,” Giannoules says. “We spent time with presidents, kings, potentates and popes, but we had a job to do.” A job he says he's glad he did. “A first-generation Greek kid from the South Side of Chicago ends up having keys to every door in the White House,” Giannoules says with a chuckle. “I consider myself very fortunate. Would I do it again? Yeah.”

Secret Service also partied before Kennedy assassination

Secret Service also partied before Kennedy assassination by REBECCA LOPEZ Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:40 PM DALLAS - It's a part of the Kennedy assassination many people don't know about. On the night before President John F. Kennedy was killed, 10 members of his Secret Service detail were partying at a Fort Worth club called The Cellar. Farris Rookstool is a former FBI analyst, who served as custodian of the John F. Kennedy assassination files. "Nine out of the 10 had consumed alcohol, [of] which four of those agents were also assigned PPD, or presidential protection detail, in the follow up car behind President Kennedy’s motorcade," Rookstool said. In sworn statements, the agents admit to drinking on the night before the death of President Kennedy. The documents state that some the agents left their post at the Texas Hotel to party with waitresses at The Cellar, who served drinks wearing only their underwear. Some of agents didn't get back to their rooms until five the next morning. "Some of these agents that were out until five in the morning, that were supposed to be guarding the president's suite, bragged to the owner of The Cellar, Pat Kirkswood, that they were out having a few cocktails while they got the Fort Worth Fire Department guarding the presidential suite," Rookstool said. He said among those drinking was Agent Clint Hill, who you see running to the back of the presidential car and being helped by Jaqueline Kennedy after her husband had been shot. "Reaching the rear end of the car, Clint blamed himself," Rookstool said. "Not based on the alcohol, but the fact is, had he gotten to the back deck of the car, he was hoping to shield the first lady as well as perhaps the President.” The Secret Service investigated the agents, but found that the drinking did not impair them or slow down their reactions when the President was shot. None of the agents were disciplined or fired. "The Warren commission was very upset when they found out," Rookstool said. Now, nearly 50 years later, a similar investigation is shaking the secret service.

The perfect companion to "Mrs. Kennedy & Me" by Clint Hill

5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect companion to "Mrs. Kennedy & Me" by Clint Hill, April 20, 2012 By Kathryn M. - See all my reviewsAmazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Within Arm's Length: The Extraordinary Life and Career of a Special Agent in the United States Secret Service (Paperback) This is a fascinating book which makes the Cartagena scandal more perplexing. Here are the three questions that I would like to ask Dan Emmett: 1) Are you talking about George Stephanopoulos on page 106? 2) Why did Cartagena happen? 3) How about taking over for Mark Sullivan? Kathryn, Thank you for the kind review. To answer your questions: 1. No, George is not referred to in the book. He was always easy to work with in my opinion and seemed to understand the relationship between staff and the Service. 2. A very good question that many are asking. The answers are being hammered out now at HQ and I am sure will be made available in the future. 3. If you are referring to my taking over for Mark Sullivan, thanks but no. I am quite happy in retirement. As far as him being replaced, I think it is premature at this point. Let the investigation run its course. Due to the intense political interest, this will be resolved sooner than later. Thanks again, Dan

More media requests re: Secret Service scandal

From 4/14/12-4/19/12, here are the media requests I have received (so far): -"Inside Edition" (fell through); -WOR radio, NY (serving 2 million people); -Mitch Albom Show, Detroit, MI (blew off lol); -contacted several times by NBC News White House producer; -contacted several times by The Washington Post's Del Quetin Wilber ("Rawhide Down") pretty cool :) Vince Palamara P.S. Discovery Channel documentary including myself in the works, too (they contacted me in March 2012)+PCN (PA Cable News), too

Secret Service scandal: David Randall Chaney, son of JFK agent George Chaney!

Secret Service scandal: Two senior officers in Colombia scandal identified April 19, 2012 21:04:00 By David Nakamura and Carol D. Leonnig WASHINGTON — One of the Secret Service supervisors who was ousted from the agency this week for his involvement in the Colombia prostitution scandal made light of his official protective work on his Facebook page, joking about a picture of himself standing watch behind Sarah Palin. David Randall Chaney, 48, posted several shots of himself on duty in a dark suit and sunglasses, including one that shows him behind the former Republican vice presidential nominee during her 2008 campaign. “I was really checking her out, if you know what i mean?” Chaney wrote in the comments section after friends had marveled at the photo. He is married and has an adult son. Related: Secret Service prostitution probe likely to grow: Pentagon Chaney, who had been a supervisor in the Secret Service’s international programs division, retired under pressure Wednesday, according to people familiar with an internal agency investigation into the allegations that 11 agents and uniformed officers had participated in a night of carousing April 11 ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to the Summit of the Americas. He was one of two senior supervisors who are accused in the scandal, which investigators believe included heavy drinking, visits to a strip club and payments to women working as prostitutes. Several people familiar with the matter have identified the other supervisor as Greg Stokes, who was assistant special agent in charge of the K-9 division. Stokes has been notified by agency officials that he will be fired, though he will be given an opportunity to contest the charges, those with knowledge of the case said. The disclosure that two high-level managers were involved in the misconduct has raised questions of accountability and personal conduct in an agency whose top leadership has insisted that the Cartagena incident is an isolated and aberrant case, not a sign of a deeper cultural problem within the institution. Chaney and Stokes have each worked at the Secret Service for nearly two decades, and both have served significant time with the presidential protection detail, people who know the men said. Both are based in Washington. The supervisors were sent on the trip to supervise dozens of younger, less-experienced agents who were part of the advance team preparing for Obama’s arrival. Lawrence Berger, the general counsel for the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association and an attorney for Chaney and Stokes, declined to comment on details of the allegations involving his clients. He said the agency’s investigation is not complete for either man and stressed that any judgment about their roles in the scandal is “premature.” “It’s our ultimate position that nothing they may or may not have done in Colombia negatively impacted the efficiency of their mission,” Berger said. “Nothing that has been reported to have been done has impacted negatively on their mission or the president’s visit.” Capitol Hill lawmakers who have been briefed on the matter have said 21 men are suspected of bringing as many as 21 prostitutes to their rooms. Ten military members also have been accused of participating, along with the 11 Secret Service personnel. The incident became public after one man got into a dispute over payment with a woman on the morning of April 12, drawing the attention of hotel staff and Colombian authorities, who reported the matter to the U.S. Embassy. The Secret Service recalled its 11 employees and replaced them with another team before Obama arrived April 13. All were placed on administrative leave and had their top-secret security clearances revoked. The Secret Service announced Wednesday that three of the men were being dismissed from the agency for their involvement. Along with Chaney and Stokes, the third man is a junior member of the team who has elected to voluntarily resign, those familiar with the investigation said. Berger did not answer questions about his clients’ employment status. “They have a passion for the agency’s mission,” he said. “They’ve both been doing it for over 17 or 18 years, day in and day out, and very well.” On Thursday, Capitol Hill lawmakers who oversee the Homeland Security Department said they expected more resignations and firings in the case. Rep. Peter T. King, R-N.Y., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said the 11 agents involved in the scandal underwent drug tests and polygraph exams. Agency investigators in Colombia have visited all of the hotels where Secret Service personnel stayed and have interviewed each of the maids who cleaned rooms in the Hotel Caribe, King said. People who know the two supervisors have described Chaney’s duties in the international programs division as supervising a department that provides support and administrative help to the agency’s foreign offices. Stokes has been described as the assistant special agent in charge of the K-9 training division at the James J. Rowley Training Center in Beltsville, Md. Attempts to reach both men were unsuccessful. Calls made to Chaney’s home and cell phone and to Stokes’ home were not returned. No one answered the door when a reporter visited Chaney’s home in Northern Virginia. Outside, a silver 4x4 Ford pickup was parked, bearing stickers with a colorful outline of Texas, Chaney’s home state, and the mantra “SECEDE.” A relative of Chaney said she would relay a message to him. The commitment to the Secret Service runs deep in Chaney’s family. His father, George Washington Chaney, was a Secret Service agent in President John Kennedy’s era and knew the agents on his detail when Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. The elder Chaney had remarked to friends that he started at the service working “diaper duty,” where he watched President Dwight Eisenhower’s children and grandchildren in Gettysburg, Pa., and also met his wife. Later, he traveled to work in Dallas, where he was on President Lyndon Johnson’s protective detail. He also served a stint in the service’s El Paso office and then became the agent in charge of personnel in the District of Columbia headquarters, where he was working when Kennedy was shot. He retired in 1977 and started a new line of work as a document examiner in Dallas, where he and his wife, “Toddie,” raised their five children. On David Chaney’s Facebook page, he posted several shots of himself with Palin. In one picture, he is wearing a dark suit and sunglasses, standing near a black vehicle behind Palin as she approaches a crowd. In the comments section next to the photo, a friend remarked that Chaney appeared to be “lurking in the shadows” behind Palin. Another kidded that there seemed to be “real chemistry” between the two. Chaney posted: “I was really checking her out, if you know what i mean?” Another friend asked if one of the buttons on Palin’s lapel was emblazoned with Chaney’s face. “well if it was could you blame her, anything to satisfy a stalker,” Chaney wrote in his reply. In another set of Facebook photos, Chaney documents a trip he took with his grown son to Egypt. One photo shows a voluptuous belly dancer in a revealing bikini-like top and tight, sequined skirt positioned between him and his son. “Not in front of my son,” Chaney joked in the comments section. One current agent, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the investigation, said both Chaney and Stokes were respected, well-liked agents and supervisors, who were both quick to offer advice and mentor younger agents and officers. “I was just completely shocked to hear they were involved,” the agent said. Related: Three of 11 Secret Service employees leave agency More firings to come, warns official Secret Service prostitution probe likely to grow: Pentagon --------

James W Sibert dies

James W Sibert dies Last surviving FBI agent at JFK autopsy dies in Fort Myers He was the last surviving FBI agent to attend the autopsy of President John F. Kennedy. But, as family and friends say, James Sibert was much more than that. A husband, father and decorated World War II veteran, Sibert died April 6 in Fort Myers of complications following a hospital fall. Sibert was 93, and a memorial service Saturday will remember his life. It starts at 10:30 a.m. and will be at Cypress Lake United Methodist Church, 8570 Cypress Lake Drive, Fort Myers. "I do believe he will have a place in history," said his son Bob Sibert, a former FBI agent now working as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C. A junior in high school when Kennedy was assassinated Nov. 22, 1963, Bob Sibert said he didn't realize the significance of his father's role in the autopsy at the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., until later, "when dad began getting solicited by authors writing books about the assassination." "There were a lot of people writing wild conspiracy stories," he explained. "He was rather guarded, and referred them to the FBI Press Office. But once he retired and was granted permission to share his observations, he was very concerned that they would not be spun or used to advance some theory he didn't believe to be true." James Sibert was an Indianapolis native who had lived in the Fort Myers area since his 1972 retirement from the bureau, As a World War II B-24 bomber pilot and Squadron Commander flying 32 missions, he was awarded the Silver Star and the Distinguished Flying Cross. He became an FBI agent and received notoriety because he attended JFK's autopsy. Observations Sibert made during the autopsy included the his statement in many published interviews that he "didn't buy the single bullet theory," which was key to the Warren Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman at Dealey Plaza that fateful day. "I've heard him say that," Bob Sibert said. "As an FBI agent, you're trained when you go to anything like this to observe and take detailed notes. The agents were not doctors. And at that time, the FBI had no jurisdiction in the assassination of a president. At the end, he was denying interviews. He said 'there's nothing left to say.'" The second agent observing the autopsy that day was Francis O'Neill, who died in Boston in 2009 at age 85. A group of his fellow retired FBI agents plans to attend Saturday's memorial service. Sibert was active in the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI. Headquartered in Virginia, the local group's territory extends from Port Charlotte to Marco Island and attracts as many as 40 members. Retired agent Paul Nolan of Fort Myers, who moved his family 29 times during his FBI career, met Sibert during a local meeting in the late 1990s. "In the FBI world," he reports, "there is more of a family relationship because of the work we do. It's confidential, so you can't share details of your work around the dinner table at home. Even after retirement, agents still regard themselves as agents. "When one of our members or spouses passed, he had a long written outline of the tasks that needed to be performed," Nolan said of James Sibert. "He'd visit with the families, help prepare insurance forms, visit with bankers and stockbrokers, and ensure that widows were protected" when approached by strangers offering to help with their financial issues. Although Sibert's name is preserved in the FBI's report "Autopsy of Body of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy" and in countless books, articles, and blogs, he preferred that his legacy be that of a loving husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, his son said. Soloist Rob Liddle will sing the hymn "My Father's Chair" at Saturday's celebration of life memorial service, remembering how Sibert could be found at every 11 a.m. Sunday service in pew number 6, on the corner. The retired FBI agent was "a true gentleman, humble, articulate, and always in a suit at church," Liddle says. "He wouldn't really talk about the Kennedy autopsy other than to say he was there." Even though Sibert had suffered health problems recently, Liddle says, "he never complained. He cared more about what's going on with you than what's going on with him." The week of his death, four retired veterans lined up in his Hope Hospice room to give him a final salute.