"SURVIVOR'S GUILT: The Secret Service & The Failure To Protect The President" by Vince Palamara COMING FALL 2013! THE PERFECT ANTIDOTE TO GERALD BLAINE'S PROPAGANDA

"SURVIVOR'S GUILT: The Secret Service & The Failure To Protect The President" by Vince Palamara COMING FALL 2013! THE PERFECT ANTIDOTE TO GERALD BLAINE'S PROPAGANDA

"Top Secrets: Presidential Assassinations" Airing: FRI FEB 15 11PM National Geographic Channel

"Top Secrets: Presidential Assassinations" Airing: FRI FEB 15 11PM National Geographic Channel


This program looks fantastic and features former Secret Service Agent Dan Emmett, author of the outstanding "Within Arm's Length", as well as former Secret Service Agent Carlton "Danny" Spriggs, author Del Wilber, and a host of others. Must-see tv! In addition, I am sure the program will eventually make its way to DVD and subsequent reruns...but DO NOT MISS THIS PROGRAM! Anything with Dan Emmett involved is highly recommended.

Vince Palamara

RFK and his children believe there was a CONSPIRACY in the death of JFK!

RFK and his children believe there was a CONSPIRACY in the death of JFK!

DALLAS (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is convinced that a lone gunman wasn't solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and said his father believed the Warren Commission report was a "shoddy piece of craftsmanship."
Kennedy and his sister, Rory, spoke about their family Friday night while being interviewed in front of an audience by Charlie Rose at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas. The event comes as a year of observances begins for the 50th anniversary of the president's death.
Their uncle was killed on Nov. 22, 1963, while riding in a motorcade through Dallas. Five years later, their father was assassinated in a Los Angeles hotel while celebrating his win in the California Democratic presidential primary.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said his father spent a year trying to come to grips with his brother's death, reading the work of Greek philosophers, Catholic scholars, Henry David Thoreau, poets and others "trying to figure out kind of the existential implications of why a just God would allow injustice to happen of the magnitude he was seeing."
He said his father thought the Warren Commission, which concluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing the president, was a "shoddy piece of craftsmanship." He said that he, too, questioned the report.
"The evidence at this point I think is very, very convincing that it was not a lone gunman," he said, but he didn't say what he believed may have happened.
Rose asked if he believed his father, the U.S. attorney general at the time of his brother's death, felt "some sense of guilt because he thought there might have been a link between his very aggressive efforts against organized crime."
Kennedy replied: "I think that's true. He talked about that. He publicly supported the Warren Commission report but privately he was dismissive of it."
He said his father had investigators do research into the assassination and found that phone records of Oswald and nightclub owner Jack Ruby, who killed Oswald two days after the president's assassination, "were like an inventory" of mafia leaders the government had been investigating.
He said his father, later elected U.S. senator in New York, was "fairly convinced" that others were involved.
http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/1828405?preferredArticleViewMode=single

JACKIE'S AGENTS

Here are the agents who protected Jackie between 1961-1963:




1) Clint Hill ['interviewed' briefly: see main/ feature video on my You Tube channel [Hill talks about me during BOTH of his C-SPAN appearances (11/10 & 5/12) with Brian Lamb] (became SAIC in early 1962; worked with Jeffries, below)- see http://vincepalamara.com/2012/05/31/speculation-did-my-22-page-letter-to-clint-hill-trouble-him-divorce-burned-notes-books/

and

http://vincepalamara.com/2012/02/10/15/




2) Paul Landis [contacted several times- would not respond];

3) Kent D Jordan [interviewed];

4) Jim Jeffries- SAIC 1960-early 1962 [deceased]



5) Bob Foster* [deceased]- Kiddie Detail but also protected Jackie when she was present

6) Lynn Meredith [corresponded with twice; now deceased]-same

7) Jack Walsh [deceased]-same

8) Jerry Dolan [deceased]-same

9) Edward Z Tucker [still living- wrote Amazon review for Blaine's book!]-same

10) John Giuffre[contacted-did not respond back]-same

11) Tom Wells [contacted- did not responded back]-same

*Foster was SAIC of Kiddie Detail



12) Wade Rodham [deceased; HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S UNCLE!]- SAIC of Kennedy residence in Atoka, VA



13) Radford Jones [corresponded with]-Hyannisport

14) Hamilton Brown- Hyannisport [interviewed briefly]

15) Jim Goodenough- Hyannisport [received letter]

16) Stanley Galup- Hyannisport [received letter; now deceased]

17) Thomas Lem Johns- Middleburg (Atoka) and Hyannisport 1962 [interviewed]



18) John Paul Jones [deceased]- drove Jackie to hospital for birth of John Jr



19) Paul Rundle [e-mailed]- foreign trips

20) Ron Pontius [e-mailed]- same

21) Ken Giannoules [spoke to briefly]- same





[ALOT of overlap with White House Detail and Hyannisport/ Middleburg (Atoka) agents i.e. when Jackie was WITH JFK, technically, those agents ALSO protected her, as well]

CLINT HILL RE: VINCE PALAMARA

I am honored that, for the second time on C-SPAN (2 for 2), CEO Brian Lamb and Clint Hill (last time, with Gerald Blaine included) talked about me. 47:03 Clint talks about the JFK autopsy, burning his notes in 2005, nine OTHER agents who drank on a presidential trip (he was one of nine who drank the night before JFK was killed), and Vince Palamara

Clint Hill: recent comments to the media

Hill said, “There’s no tolerance at all, no room for any misbehavior in the Secret Service.” “There’s no loose chain. You are on the clock from the time you leave…until the time you return home.” [I guess Clint forgot the drinking incident he himself was involved in the night before the assassination. Also, former agents Tony Sherman, Abe Bolden, and Joe Paolella, as well as DNC advance man Jerry Bruno, confirmed that the agents indulged in sex parties and drinking during the JFK years! Sorry, ole Clint] Hill also said: “Mark Sullivan has been a very good director and good for the service.” [Perhaps Clint feels this way because he debriefed Sullivan on the purpose and merit of “The Kennedy Detail” before publication, dined with him at an AFAUSSS conference, and had lunch with the Director (and Blaine) in private later!] Please see chapters 6 & 12 of http://www.assassinationresearch.com/v4n1.html

MY review of Clint's great book at bottom of USA TODAY review

http://books.usatoday.com/book/review-of-mrs-kennedy-and-me/r662900 Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir By Clint Hill with Lisa McCubbin Publisher: Gallery Comments B005GG0M0G BUY THIS BOOK Amazon Barnes & Noble iBookstore Indiebound 3_5 USA TODAY Rating: 3_5 USA TODAY Review ‘Mrs. Kennedy’: A relationship of respect, protection, love By Don Oldenburg, USA TODAY April 02, 2012 If you're a Kennedy vulture looking for scandalous scraps of hushed-up affairs, look elsewhere. Retired Secret Service Special Agent Clint Hill's charming insider's chronicle of the Kennedy years is more of a Driving Miss Daisy tale that contains lots of Secret Service logistical stories and daily-life anecdotes but few startling revelations. Not that Hill drove Mrs. Kennedy much. His job was to protect her. But this account by the Secret Service agent seen in the Zapruder film frantically climbing onto the back of the presidential limo to shield JFK and the first lady on that fateful day in Dallas is more about how a relationship between two strikingly different people in close contact evolves into genuine intimacy. When Hill, now 80, first met Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in November 1960, JFK had just been elected president and "Jackie" was pregnant with their son, John Jr. Jackie was a rich girl, Miss Porter's School, Vassar, the Sorbonne, equestrian, married to the junior U.S. senator from Massachusetts. Clint Hill was an adopted small-town North Dakota boy, normal '50s childhood, Concordia College in Minnesota. Hill had served on President Eisenhower's Secret Service detail and figured this reassignment to protect the next first lady was a demotion — the "Kiddie Detail." Little did he know he'd soon be accompanying Mrs. Kennedy on trips worldwide as she redefined the role of the modern first lady. While Mrs. Kennedy's beauty, grace, intelligence and spirit quickly captivated Hill, her insistence on privacy and trying to raise her children normally are what earned his respect. He writes that he "wasn't there to be her friend," but he became one of her most trusted friends. He never uses the word, but not only did he adore her, it's clear from his book that Hill (who was married) loved her. Yet they never ventured beyond formality. He was always "Mr. Hill," she was always "Mrs. Kennedy." What makes this memoir memorable is that Hill was always there as the Kennedy legend evolved. He was there for Caroline's first snowman, and John-John's birth, for Thanksgivings at Hyannis Port and Christmases at Palm Beach. When Jackie's horse threw her headfirst, he raced to her side. As more than a 100,000 people lined the streets in New Delhi waving miniature American flags and cheering her, he was scanning the crowd for potential dangers. When she needed a tennis opponent, he did the best he could in his dark suit and Florsheim wingtips. While many of the book's anecdotes have previously been reported, Hill owns the point-of-view advantage. At times, it's easy to tell where Hill's voice ends and co-author Lisa McCubbin's voice begins, such as when describing what Jackie was wearing: "an ice-blue long-sleeved silk coat with a matching whimsical beret." But McCubbin, an award-winning journalist, undoubtedly helped Hill sustain the storytelling quality of the narrative. Nowhere in the book does that quality become more intense and dramatic than the 25 pages describing the day of the assassination and the disturbing details of Hill's eyewitness account as he climbed across the back of the limousine after hearing the first shot and seeing the president reach for his throat. What Hill saw in those seconds would haunt him forever. As for JFK's infidelities, Hill upholds the "secret" side of his service and never even mentions any scandals. Still, the book conveys a sense of honesty and proves to be an insightful and lovingly penetrating portrait of the Jacqueline Kennedy that Hill came to know. Reader Reviews - From Goodreads -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Showing 1-1 of 1. Goodreads reviews for Mrs. Kennedy and Me Showing 1-1 of 1. By Vince (The United States) — 5 of 5 stars — Mar 31, 12 OUTSTANDING: SECOND ONLY TO "WITHIN ARM'S LENGTH"! I so wanted to dislike this book. As the leading civilian literary expert on the Secret Service, I had previously—-and rightfully—lambasted Lisa McCubbin’s prior effort entitled “The Kennedy Detail” for its rewriting of history, …more# Comments # http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/304187570?utm_medium=api&utm_source=reviews_widget My rating: Added to my books! add my review Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir by Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin (Goodreads Author) Vince Palamara's review Mar 31, 12 bookshelves: outstanding-second-only-to-within OUTSTANDING: SECOND ONLY TO "WITHIN ARM'S LENGTH"! I so wanted to dislike this book. As the leading civilian literary expert on the Secret Service, I had previously—-and rightfully—lambasted Lisa McCubbin’s prior effort entitled “The Kennedy Detail” for its rewriting of history, blaming JFK for his own death and putting words in the late president’s mouth that he never once uttered, as verified by the prior accounts of numerous top agents and White House aides, many of whom WERE there in Dallas (unlike former agent Gerald Blaine). As previously stated, it was my 22-page letter to former agent Clint Hill that angered him and his best friend to whom I had also spoken to, the aforementioned Blaine, that directly led to the writing of “The Kennedy Detail” and, by extension, the need to write a follow-up tome, “Mrs. Kennedy & Me” (whenever a book is even a mild best-seller, which their first effort was, it is almost a guarantee that, if there is any gas left in the tank, so to speak, a further literary work will be forthcoming). In fact, both agents Blaine and Hill debated the merits of my research on television and, if that weren’t enough, I was mentioned on pages 359-360 of “The Kennedy Detail” (without naming me, of course). One could argue several other pages refer to my work, directly or indirectly, but I digress from the matter at hand. Simply put, “Mrs. Kennedy & Me” is stupendous: a literary home run, second only to another brand new work, the outstanding 2012 book “Within Arm’s Length” by former agent Dan Emmett, as attaining the mantle of being the greatest book on the Secret Service by a former agent ever to date (1865-2012 and counting). I almost cannot believe I am writing this but, alas, honesty prevails: Mr. Hill and Ms. McCubbin have alot to be proud of for this book—it is consistently everything “The Kennedy Detail” is not: truthful, honest, no axe to grind, not dry or boring, well written, and coming from the perspective of a brave and dedicated public servant who WAS truly there (to be fair, even “The Kennedy Detail”, and certainly the documentary it was based on, had its moments, although my judgment is rightfully clouded by what I and others feel are the purposeful untruths and propaganda contained throughout, as well as the exasperating third-person narrative interwoven throughout the book, making it hard to pin down exactly WHO was responsible for specific passages. President Kennedy did NOT order the agents off his limousine in Tampa, in Dallas, or anywhere else, for that matter- SAIC Behn, ASAIC Boring, ATSAIC Godfrey, many of their colleagues, and several prominent White House aides said so). Do I still have misgivings about some of the agents on the Kennedy Detail? Sure; that will never change. Am I also an ardent admirer of the Secret Service? You bet: the agency has a whole lot to be proud of. Clint Hill at least TRIED to do something that fateful day inDallasand carried much guilt and depression over the sad events of that time and place. That is a whole lot more than several of his colleagues can lay claim to. That aside, “Mrs. Kennedy & Me” is highly recommended to everyone for its honesty and rich body of true, first-hand accounts of guarding First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. Too bad this book wasn’t even longer and “The Kennedy Detail” did not exist, but one cannot ask for everything. Please purchase this fine book as soon as possible!