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Oswald had been set up and it began months before the assassination. Kennedy had a lengthy list of enemies, itching to pull the trigger. Four days before Dallas. An agent of the Miami SS office told author Vincent Palamara that the threats they received against Kennedy's life in Miami were "above normal". After the trip, JFK remarked to an aide, "Thank God nobody wanted to kill me today." Another agent said, "We knew there were people who wanted him dead ...and those of us regularly assigned to the White House detail had a pretty good idea that somebody had been stalking him for a long time. I think Kennedy also knew some kind of attempt might be coming..." All of which makes the Secret Service's incompetence protecting the President in Dallas all the more striking. Although they were aware the President was being stalked (from Chicago to Miami to Dallas) they allowed him to ride in an open limousine through congested city streets, without any agents on the bumper, into the slow dog-leg turn into Dealey Plaza and, with the exception of one agent acting too late, did little when they heard shots fired. Not one of them was punished for drinking into the wee hours the night before the assassination; few showed any remorse for failing so abysmally to do their job. Some were even promoted afterwards. Everyone should draw their own conclusions.