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Originally Posted by Flabbibulin
The secret service were ordered to stay off the Presidential limo and give JFK some space to campaign... by Kennedy himself
http://news.discovery.com/history/jf...et-service.htm
Does that mean Kennedy was "in on it" as well?
No, it shows campaigning and protection are often two opposing forces |
I've already proven that there were agents on the back of his limo both 4 days before the assassination, and the actual day of the hit. I didn't see Kennedy turn around and shoo the agent away, did you?
Whats your proof that Kennedy called them off again? One uncorroborated quote from a guy promoting his new book? I've already linked to interviews with multiple secret service agents that claim Kennedy
made no such request.
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Representative responses by former Secret Service agents and others to my question, "Did JFK ever 'order agents around', including having them dismount the rear area of the limousine?" were as follows:
Samuel A. Kinney (driver of the Secret Service follow-up car in Dallas), (interviewed on 10/19/92, 3/5/94, 4/15/94) -- "Absolutely, positively no. He (JFK) had nothing to do with that, no, never ... President Kennedy was one of the easiest presidents to protect ... ninety nine percent of the agents would agree."
Robert Lilley (a member of JFK's detail from election night until one month before Dallas), (interviewed 9/27/92, 9/21/93, 6/7/96) -- "I'm sure he did not. He was very cooperative with us once he became president. Basically, (his attitude was) 'whatever you guys want is the way it will be.'"
Arthur L. Godfrey (one of three shift leaders on the Texas trip), (interviewed 5/30/96, 6/7/96; correspondence 11/24/97) -- (JFK) never ordered us to do anything. He was a very nice man ... cooperative. He never asked me to have my shift leave the limo when we were working it."
Gerald A. Behn (chief of JFK's detail) (interviewed three times on 9/27/92) -- "I don't remember Kennedy ever saying that he didn't want anybody on the back of his car. I think if you watch the newsreel pictures and whatnot, you'll find agents on there from time to time."
A photo from the Tampa Tribune of November 19, 1963 -- three days before the assassination -- clearly supports Behn's contention. It depicts agents Donald Lawton and Charles Zboril on the rear of JFK's limousine in both urban and suburban areas, during a politically significant, high-visibility presidential visit to Florida.
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