Posted on 05/16/2021 8:52:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
On Nov. 18, 1963, in the midst of a whirlwind campaign trip, President John F. Kennedy told Secret Service supervisor Floyd Boring that agents riding on special boards installed near the trunk of his car should drop back and tail him from a follow-up vehicle instead.
“It’s excessive, Floyd. And it’s giving the wrong impression to people,” said Kennedy. “We’ve got an election coming up. The whole point is for me to be accessible to the people.”
Kennedy’s bristling at the proximity of the agents was not uncommon for those being protected by the Secret Service, especially US presidents. But after his assassination four days later, some agents wondered if that extra car-length prevented them from saving JFK’s life.
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Anyone with any pistol shooting experience can go to the sixth floor museum and just look. It’s an easy shot with a pistol. It’s amazingly close. That X painted on the street at the headshot is really big.
I have finished reading several books on the Kennedy Assassination , including William Manchester’s “Death of a President”, and nowhere in all that material is this fact, it did not happen.
What in fact did happen was that SS was sloppy and incompetent that day.
That is a fact and true. Against all regulations at the time.
They were at several places that night.
US Secret Service Special Agent Frank Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) was near JFK...But, he failed to protect him...Agent Horrigan feels guilty about that...
Many years later, Agent Horrigan has to deal with the assassin (John Malkovich) who is planning to kill the president...
I think it was a good movie.
There were people on that commission that should have not been there, especially one Allen Dulles.
Way off he was killed by the CIA and others, planned no less by than Allan Dulles.
Except at the time of the shooting there was a tree in front of the building in full foliage , so how did Oswald make the shot?
One of the bizarre theories I’ve read about the incident that seems to be at least reasonably plausible was that Oswald was the lone perpetrator; but that the second bullet to hit JFK was actually fired by a Secret Service agent in the trailing vehicle whose weapon accidentally discharged in the panic of the moment.
My first night in the Ft Worth Cellar was 26 March, 1968. It was my 13th birthday, taken their by an Uncle and Cousin too young to be there themselves. We went almost every week for 2 years.
So the archives show 88% open some with redaction and the rest still sealed. Who knows who went to the grave knowing truth or maybe the commission was spot on.
Well sadly he was accessible to the people (all it takes it one wrong one) and paid the ultimate price. The only good thing to come of it is this mistake saved the lives of future presidents to come.
Omg! This cracked me up.
It is starting to sound like it the more I read.
The CIA killed him.
Yep, you are correct.
No doubt it's been done by others but probably most notably by Stephen King. See his novel 11/22/63 (or the hulu adapted miniseries).
When will the JFK obsession end? Please, God ... make it stop!!! The old perv is dead; let it go already.
Correct, and Oswald's first shot, aiming almost straight down into the limousine as it passed in front of him, was likely deflected by a branch from that tree, flying off across the plaza.
By the second shot, the limo had cleared the tree and was starting to speed up when Oswald delivered the second shot hitting JFK in the neck, and seriously wounding Governor Connally.
And then the third shot came, 88 yards from Oswald's perch to JFK's head, shearing off the right front side as it blasted through, with the limo rounding the curve in front of the "grassy knoll" toward the underpass.
For a trained Marine marksman of that time, it really was an easy shot, but Oswald did not hit JFK cleanly because of the limo rounding the curve and accelerating. The angles all line up from Oswald's perch for anybody who visits Dealy Plaza and the book depository site.
And reports of additional gunfire were no doubt echoes of Oswald's shots bouncing back from the big brick buildings surrounding the plaza.
He had something to do with it.
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