The Secret Service Agent on the Knoll
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Sourcenotes 01-02.07
Source Notes ABBREVIATIONS AFIP, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology ARRB, Assassination Records Review Board ARRB MD, Assassination Records Review Board, Medical Deposition ASAIC, assistant special agent-in-charge (Secret Service) CD, Warren Commission document CE, Warren Commission exhibit DA, district attorney DMA, Dallas Municipal Archives DOJ, Department of Justice DOJCD, Department of Justice, Criminal Division DPD, Dallas Police Department FOIA, Freedom of Information Act H, Warren Commission hearings and exhibits (volumes 1–15 are testimony; volumes 16–26 are exhibits) HPSCI, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence HSCA, House Select Committee on Assassinations JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson NARA, National Archives and Records Administration NAS-CBA, National Academy of Science’s Committee on Ballistic Acoustics NSA, National Security Agency ONI, Office of Naval Intelligence SA, special agent SAC, special agent-in-charge (FBI) SAIC, special agent-in-charge (Secret Service) SSCIA, Senate Select Committee on the CIA WC, Warren Commission WCT, Warren Commission testimony WR, Warren Report Z, Zapruder film 1 INTRODUCTION 1. Stephen Ambrose, quoted in John Broder, “Greatness in the Eye of the Beholder?” Los Angeles Times, November 22, 1993, pp.1, 10. 2. O’Donnell and Powers with McCarthy, Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye, p.472. 3. Ambrose, quoted in Broder, “Greatness in the Eye of the Beholder?” Los Angeles Times, Novem- ber 22, 1993, pp.1, 10. 4. USA Today, November 22, 1993. 5. Dallas Morning News, November 17, 2003, p.14. 6. New York Times, November 4, 2004, p.4; Phillips, “Fat City,” p.49. 7. Ashley Powers, “The Mythical Man of Camelot,” Dallas Morning News, November 16, 2003, pp.1A, 18A. -
Chapter 7 the Assassination
Chapter 7: November 22, 1963 Chapter 7 The assassination 1 Introduction Our interest in reviewing the information that is today available to us regarding the events of November 22, 1963, quite naturally focuses on the question as to whether President Kennedy was killed by a lone assassin or by a conspiracy. Other questions pale by comparison to this first and most important question. As we review the eyewitness testimony, we see that the conclusion is not difficult to reach -- that indeed, the President was shot both from the front and the rear. This conclusion can be reached by a consideration of several kinds of evidence: v where the eyewitnesses heard the shots coming from; v eyewitness accounts of the spacing of the shots, which came too close together for the lone assassin hypothesis to be maintained; v the total number of shots was too large for the lone assassin hypothesis to be maintained; v the early shot hitting the President was not the same as the shot hitting Governor Connally, invalidating the lone assassin hypothesis. 1 The route through Dallas The final decision for the President's route in Dallas was determined by Secret Service agent Winston Lawson, on Thursday, November 14.1 The WCR states that "Lawson was not specifi- cally instructed [on Nov. 8] to select the parade route, but he understood that this was one of his functions. Even before the Trade Mart had been definitely selected, Lawson and Sorrels began to consider the best motorcade route from Love Field to the Trade Mart. On November 14, Law- son and Sorrels attended a meeting at Love Field and on their return to Dallas drove over the route which Sorrels believed best suited for the proposed motorcade."2 The route was reviewed and approved by Chief of Police Jesse Curry, Asst. -
An ARRB Update
down to about 192,000 pages of hard copy and 72 rolls of microfilm, which would be about 163,000 pages. So that's about 355,000 pages of material the Board has to look at document by document. However, the Board doesn't really want to do that because that would take up too much of their time. So they are looking for a way to deal with this prob- lem. I would urge you to write to the Board and ask for the "Memorandum of Understanding" signed by the Chairman of the Assassination Committee and the Director of Intelli- gence that explains why these documents were sequestered. It is referred to on page 25 of the August 6th open meeting transcript. The CIA began its process of reviewing these docu- ments under Director Gates' Historical Review Program. They wrote to Speaker Foley requesting approval to begin declassifying and releasing these records. Foley gave ap- proval. One of the troubling items in the hard copy are per- An ARRB sonnel files. The Board wants to setthese records aside. There is even the possibility the Board may decide that these records are not assassination records and will not release them, despite the fact the HSCA requested this material Update from the CIA, looked at them, and asked they be held sepa- Copyright 1996 by Joseph Backes rately, thus the name "segregated." This was discussed at length at the October 16th open meeting as well. This meet- ing was at the Board's Washington D.C. office in a small room toe eackes was on the panel New Leads in and was nearly overflowing with staff. -
Consniracv HW 7/21/80 Like All Assassination Commercializers Who
Anthc 8anmersiii - Consniracv HW 7/21/80 Like all assassination commercializers who begin with a merchantable formule, Simmers is a ripoff artist who pretends to be generous with credit and isn't except to a few friends to whom he is more indebted than he indicates In order to hide his =originality, while hippodroming his awn supposed investi- gations and research, he rarely gives primary sources. With HSU, nobody having drawn on that source, he cites their repetition of the work of others, for all the world as though it all began with them. There is no word in the book to indicate that he intends anything else. With the Warren Paterials, he cites them instead of the books from which he cribbed what he uses. He thus pretends that this also is his original work: Be is =tidal of those he uses, like Epstein, covering up Epstein's fakery and lies, as with how and wgen Oswald got out of England. Because of his heavy use of its material he is virtually entirely uncritical of the HSGA. and at no point indicates that so much of its work and so large a percentage of its expenditures were devoted to an effort to put down the entire critical community. The practise extends to those he uses as probative when they aren't, like John Wilson. There is little on the assassination and what little there is is not always accurate. (All is unoriginal.) His formula is guilt by presume indirect, alleged association. In some cases, where it is important in his theorizing, it is not accurate. -
The Man Who Wasn't There: Were There Phony Secret Service Agents in Dealey Plaza?
The Man Who Wasn't There: Were There Phony Secret Service Agents in Dealey Plaza? Michael T. Griffith 2020 @All Rights Reserved Second Edition Officers Smith and Baker in Dealey Plaza moments after the shots were fired Some witnesses said they encountered Secret Service agents in Dealey Plaza moments after the assassination. These reports continue to be the subject of much controversy. Why? Because it has long been established that no genuine Secret Service agents were on the ground in Dealey Plaza until later that afternoon. This fact suggests that phony Secret Service agents were in Dealey Plaza, and that they were there to help the assassins escape. David Scheim summarizes: After the shooting, Dallas Police officer Joe M. Smith encountered another suspicious man in the lot behind the picket fence [on the grassy knoll]. Smith told the Warren Commission that when he drew his pistol and approached the man, the man "showed [Smith] that he was a Secret Service agent.” Another witness also reported encountering a man who displayed a badge and identified himself as a Secret Service agent. But according to Secret Service Chief James Rowley and agents at the scene, all Secret Service personnel stayed with the motorcade, as required by regulations, and none was stationed in the railroad parking lot [behind the grassy knoll]. It thus appeared that someone was carrying fraudulent Secret Service credentials - of no perceptible use to anyone but an escaping assassin. (Scheim 30-31) Not only were there no Secret Service (SS) agents stationed on or behind the grassy knoll, but there were no FBI or other federal agents stationed there either. -
November at the Carousel
November at the Carousel Libretto An Opera in Three Acts Te xtand music by Peter Billam ©Peter J Billam, 1999 This libretto may be freely photocopied, and redistributed in paper form. It may not be redistributed in electronic form, and all other rights, such as those of live performance, recording and broadcast, remain reserved by the librettist and composer,Peter Billam, GPO Box 669, Hobart TAS 7001, Australia. This edition 26 April 2006. http://www.pjb.com.au Jack Ruby, 24 Nov 1963 pjb.com.au November at the Carousel Orchestra Strings : First and second violins, violas, violoncelli, basses. Woodwind : Flute (doubling piccolo), twooboes (one doubling cor anglais), two clarinets in Bb (one doubling Eb), twobasoons (one doubling con- tra). Brass : Tw o trumpets, twotrombones, twohorns in F. Saxophones : Saxophone quartet; soprano, alto, tenor and baritone. Percussion : Piano, one percussionist (snaredrum, triangle, 2 timpani). Scenes Act One Scene One Jack Ruby'soffice at the Carousel Club Scene Two On stage at the Carousel Club Scene Three At table at the Carousel Club Scene Four The same table after closing time Act Two Scene One The Grassy Knoll Scene Two The Texas Cinema Scene Three Inside Olsen'sCar Scene Four ACorridor in the Police Station Scene Five The Garage in the Police Station Act Three Scene One Jack Ruby'strial Scene Two The Warren Commission Hearing ©Peter J Billam 1999 www.pjb.com.au 2 November at the Carousel November at the Carousel Cast Rose Cheramie One of Jack Ruby'sworking girls, Mezzo. Bodyguard Works for Jack Ruby,Latin-american, Bass. -
Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK by Gerald Posner: a Preliminary Critique by Martin Shackelford
Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK by Gerald Posner: A Preliminary Critique by Martin Shackelford DEJA VU: In 1964, the Warren Commission, after 8 months of studying the JFK assassination, published a book purporting to solve the case; they got virtually uncritical media support and coverage, but they were wrong. In 1966, after three years of studying the JFK case, Mark Lane published a book purporting to solve it; he got mountains of media coverage, but he was wrong. In 1980, after 17 years of studying the case, David Lifton published a book purporting to solve it; Time magazine devoted two pages to his book, and he got a lot of television coverage, but he was wrong. In 1993, after 2 years of study, Gerald Posner published a book purporting to finally resolve the issues in the case, and US. News & World Report devoted 27 pages in a special issue on the book, and he is getting a lot of television coverage. He, too, is wrong, but the media seems fonder of his version than Lifton's: he says the Warren Commission was right. As he later notes, "An increasing amount of published work is a dangerous mixture of good information with a liberal dose of falsehoods. Sifting out the truth is increasingly difficult for those not well versed in the facts."1 Unfortunately, the same may be said of his own book. BLURBS: Posners book is highly praised on the dust jacket by Tom Wicker, a longtime Warren Commission apologist who in 1979 wrote an introduction to the House Select Committee on Assassinations report (NY. -
The Kennedy Conundrum They'd Heard a Shot from the Knoll
NATIONAL AFFAIRS what the Warren Commission was forced to conclude, despite witnesses who said The Kennedy Conundrum they'd heard a shot from the knoll. Connal- ly insists that he and Kennedy were hit by different shots—and Abraham Zapruder's Still too many questions—and too many answers famous home movie of the assassination proves Oswald alone wouldn't have had the time to fire them both. An American writer n all the news stories leading up to the all accept that both Oswald and Jack Ruby, named Steve Rivele even says there were 25th anniversary of the assassination of who asseRsinated Oswald before he could three second gunmen. When he named John F. Kennedy this week, the single stand trial, had linksto the organization of them last month on a Britis h documentary, 'most telling detail may have been a new New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello- one of the two who are still living came caption on an old photo in The New York a chief target of the Kennedy administra- forward with an alibi. Central Independent Times, "Shortly after the assassination tion's war on crime. (The Warren Report Television and producer Nigel Turner are of President Kennedy," it read, "report- said Ruby, like Oswald, was simply a lone sticking by their story. Rivele is in hiding. ers stood at the spot in the Texas School nut.) But Marcell% now 78, denies he or- Turner's documentary has at least one Book Depository Building from chilling moment, involving a which Lee Harvey Oswald's ri- computer-enhanced photo of fle was fired." [Emphasis add- the grassy knoll, and a man ed.] A quarter century ago, few named Gordon Arnold who be- editors would have hesitated to lieves he's in the picture. -
59 Witnesses: Delay on Elm Street
The Zapruder Film is AUTHENTIC Page 1 of 14 Return to our Home Page Return to our Zapruder Film Page 59 Witnesses: Delay on Elm Street by Vince Pa1arnara* Updated 1998 Edition Comments will be forwarded. Email: Clint Bradford NOTE: In case you are keeping track, I came up with 23 witnesses stating that the Presidential limo or motorcade "stopped," "paused," or came to a "temporary halt" (Witnesses 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 13, 14, 16, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 42, 45, 48, and 50). I also read in this study that another 21 witnesses stated that the limo or motorcade "slowed," 'faltered," or "almost stopped" (Witnesses 1, 3, 7, 11, 12, 15, 18, 20, 23, 37, 38, 41, 43, 44, 46, 47, 51, 52, 53, 55, and 57). As recently as last year, this study has been mis-used in published research. "[Vince Palamara's study] now includes at least 48 witnesses who described a limousine stop on Elm Street..." wrongly reports David W. Mantik, M.D., Ph.D., in the James Fetzer compilation, Assassination Science. As you can read for yourselves, Vince's work does nothing of the sort. - Clint Bradford, 12/14/98 Based on the original 1991 article, "47 Witnesses," that appeared in "The Third Decade," Jan/ March 1992. This article has since been cited in: "The Third Decade," 11/92 "The Fourth Decade," 11/93 and 9/97 "Proceedings of the Second Research Conference of the Third Decade, 6/18-6/20/93," pages 128 & 162 "The Proceedings of the Research Conference of the Fourth Decade," 7/19-7/21/96", p. -
"Out, the SECRET SERVICE at DEALEY PLAZA
Dear Paul, 11/21/79 Thanks for the mailing that included the Pat ambory "The Secret service at Heasley Plaza" and the Lifton secret Service request rolatod in the memo of transfer. I'm sorry Lifton didn't see fit to provide in or me with copier of what he obtained for as he knew this was our project aed4the recorde are relevant. They have not been grovided and I'm mending copies to ilea. The records are relevant to my memo of transfer request, diacovery eaterlel. aot provided by the Archive:3 (or given to Howard under hie request with my waiver) and to my PA requests of all agencies involved. The Lambeet.ot li is en atrocity. It bas is not rational or reasonable, die-texts, exaggerates, is on a known inaccuracy in what Clint Hill is quoted ott6 having said, the imposeible (like taking evasive action in a cal do sac, a is i'lancheoter), and ignores all human considerations. It is a grossly unfair attack on the Secret Service, which tends to exculpate it for its real sins, and defames us all. I regret very much that people are impelled to such atrocities. Whatever their motives it ic the idail o thing that 1 proz:,umo you know by now is used with great effectiveness throughout the Government to malign us all and ae an eacuse for non- disclosure of information. allegoda foar of the last is explicit in the records Lifton did get. Evica reportedly obtained an PEI record allegedly connectina lqiby with diareello. halve not seen it. -
HSCA Final Report
D. AGENCIES AND DEPARTMENTS OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT PERFORMED WITH VARYING DEGREES OF C031PETENCY IN THE FULFILLMENT OF THEIR DUTIES ; PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY DID NOT RECEIVE ADEQUATE PROTECTION ; A THOROUGH AND RELIABLE INVESTIGATION INTO THE RESPONSIBILITY OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD FOR THE ASSASSI- THE -ATION WAS CONDUCTED INVESTIGATION INTO THE POSSIBILITY OF CONSPIRACY IN THE ASSASSINATION WAS INADEQUATE ; THE CON- CLUSIONS OF TIIE INVESTIGATIONS WERE ARRIVED AT IN GOOD FAITH, BUT PRESENTED IN A FASHION THAT WAS TOO DEFINITIVE 1. THE SECRET SERVICE WAS DEFICIENT IN THE PERFORMANCE OF ITS DUTIES The assassination of President Kennedy was the first and only such crime since the Secret Service was assigned responsibility for full-time protection of the President in 1901, as a result of the assassination of William McKinley.(1) When originally formed in 1865, the Secret Service had not been given responsibility for Presidential protection, even though that was the year Lincoln was murdered. (2) Its primary purpose was to deal with counterfeiting, which had become a national outrage in the period before 1862 when a standardized national cur- rency was adopted. (3) By the end of the 1860's, the new agency had all but eliminated the problem. (4) For the balance of the 19th century,. the Secret Service engaged in various criminal detection activities. It investigated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1870's,(5) Spanish espionage in the 1890's,(6) organized crime in New York City in the 1880's and 1890's,(7) and syndicated gambling in Louisiana at the turn of the century. -
Dealey Plaza Eyewitnesses
Dealey Plaza Eyewitnesses Books - Articles - Videos - Collections - Oral Histories - YouTube - Websites Visit our Library Catalog for complete list of books, magazines, and videos. Books Aynesworth, Hugh. November 22, 1963: Witness to History. Dallas: Brown Books, 2013. Brennan, Howard L. Eyewitness to History: The Kennedy Assassination as Seen by Howard L. Brennan. Waco, TX: Texian Press, 1987. Bugliosi, Vincent. Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007. Connally, John B. In History's Shadow: An American Odyssey. New York: Hyperion, 1993. Connally, Nellie. From Love Field: Our Final Hours with President John F. Kennedy. New York: Rugged Land, 2003. Crenshaw, Charles A., Jens Hensen and Gary Shaw. JFK Conspiracy of Silence. New York: Signet, 1992. Curry, Jesse E. Retired Dallas Police Chief, Jesse Curry, Reveals His Personal JFK Assassination File. Dallas: 1969. Dallas Morning News. JFK Assassination: The Reporter’s Notes. Canada: Pediment, 2013. Hampton, Wilborn. Kennedy Assassinated! The World Mourns: A Reporter's Story. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 1997. Hill, Clint and Lisa McCubbin. Five Days in November. New York: Gallery Books, 2013. Hlavach, Laura. Reporting the Kennedy Assassination: Journalists Who Were There Recall Their Experiences. Dallas, TX: Three Forks Press, 1996. Oliver, Beverly. Nightmare in Dallas. Pennsylvania: Starburst Publishers, 1994. Read, Julian. JFK’s Final Hours in Texas: An Eyewitness Remembers the Tragedy and Its Aftermath. Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 2013. Smith, Merriman. The Murder of the Young President. Washington D.C.: United Press International, 1963. Sneed, Larry A. No More Silence: An Oral History of the Assassination of President Kennedy.