Posted on 11/22/2007 1:21:57 PM PST by Wallaby
Just Three Weeks Before Dallas, Feds Uncovered Plot to Kill JFK in Chicago, Says Ex-Secret Service Agent By CHUCK GOUDIE, WLS-TV
Nov. 22, 2007 —
A former Secret Service agent has told WLS-TV there was a plot to kill President Kennedy in Chicago three weeks before he was assassinated in Dallas.
Kennedy was murdered on Nov. 22, 1963. Today is the 44th anniversary of JFK's assassination.
Lee Harvey Oswald would never have had the chance to kill Kennedy in Dallas, had an assassination plot in Chicago succeeded three weeks earlier, a plot that has been mentioned over the years.
Kennedy was due to arrive in Chicago the morning of Nov. 2 to attend the Army-Air Force football game at Soldier Field and ride in a parade. Newspapers had even printed JFK's detailed travel plan from O'Hare airport to the Loop.
Although police were preparing to line the motorcade route, Secret Service officials in Chicago were deeply troubled about the visit because of two secret threats.
Right-wing radical and Kennedy denouncer Thomas Vallee had arranged to be off work for JFK's visit; Vallee, an expert marksman, was arrested with an M1 rifle, a handgun and 3,000 rounds of ammo. But then there was the phone call to federal agents from a motel manager concerning what she'd seen in a room rented by two Cuban nationals.
"Had seen lying on the bed several automatic rifles with telescopic sights, with an outline of the route that President Kennedy was supposed to take in Chicago that would bring him past that building," said former Secret Service agent Abraham Bolden....
“If we can just keep these conspiracies going until the next century ... Kennedy will have created the universe by then.”
You mean he didn’t?
He meant Hobby - that’s all there was back then. Also, the “Trans Texas” side of the airport means TTA, Trans Texas Airways, or, as we knew it then, TreeTop Airways.
(Long before there was “somebody up there who LOVEs you” - Southwest.)
I guess I have to admit I just don’t give a $hit who offed him or anything else about the Kennedy tribe. I wish the media would just let it rest.
Oops, I didn’t see any of the Hobby and TTA discussion before I posted just now. Sorry.
But actually, I flew Hobby a lot then and still, and my dad’s office back then was right by the Shamrock, so I did the airport run sometimes. Seems like you could just go Bellfort or Airport to Almeda and come right up to Holcombe.
Didn’t seem like a long drive at all, but maybe it’s all relative because we lived much further out west from there.
Yeah, I was actually working on the ad account at the time of the changeover to TI. Would have been about 1971 when they started flying to Mexico and we opened an office there.
I've been working on finding that out myself. Since we're talking about a Kennedy, I've eliminated the dry counties, and that narrows it down quite a bit...
LOL, it’s gotta be Rusk. Altho, there are parts of those Piney Woods that have a Little Appalachia a la Deliverance feel to them!
Well thanks for stopping by and sharing that piece of information.
Pack cotton around your tooth to keep it dry.
The saliva is what’s been powering the battery.
Covering Pat Benatar? Bon Jovi?
“Joe K. said he would talk to them when they got together at Christmas. Joe stroked out before that.”
What year did this conversation take place?
Halliburton was owned by Ladybird Johnson at the time.
December 19, 1961
Here's one action Bobby Kennedy took earlier in 1961. In March 1961, the Attorney General took steps to have Marcello deported to Guatemala (the country Marcello had falsely listed as his birthplace). On 4th April, Marcello was arrested by the authorities and taken forcibly to Guatemala.
Marcello was unceremoniously dumped in the hills in Guatemala without money or wallet and left to find his own way back to the states.
I have lived here all my life and I was an adult when Kennedy was killed. I don’t remember International being added to our airports name until it moved to its present location in ‘69. If this guy was military he would have come into Ellington Field which was not close to the Shamrock either. I am not saying I doubt this guys story entirely (I only skimmed it) but the airport/hotel part seems confused. The Shamrock Hotel was torn down 20 years later so I am not sure if it was still a classy place to stay at this time or a dump.
I do remember Kennedy being filmed coming out of the Rice Hotel in Houston the day before he was killed in Dallas. My husband made the remark “I am glad Kennedy is leaving Houston I have a bad feeling about him for some reason”.
What a crock. The main group with the motivation and ability to carry this out was the Mafia, and ONLY the Mafia. Bobby sealed his fate.
“there was the phone call to federal agents from a motel manager concerning what she’d seen in a room rented by two Cuban nationals.”
“Had seen lying on the bed several automatic rifles with telescopic sights, with an outline of the route that President Kennedy was supposed to take in Chicago that would bring him past that building...”
If so, then they were pretty stupid assassins.
"Bryan Burrough's laudatory review of Vincent Bugliosi's book on the Kennedy assassination (May 20) is superficial and gratuitously insulting. ''Conspiracy theorists'' -- blithe generalization -- should according to Burroughs be ''ridiculed, even shunned ... marginalized the way we've marginalized smokers.'' Let's see now. The following people to one degree or another suspected that President Kennedy was killed as the result of a conspiracy, and said so either publicly or privately: Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon; Attorney General Robert Kennedy; John Kennedy's widow, Jackie; his special adviser dealing with Cuba at the United Nations, William Attwood; F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover (!); Senators Richard Russell (a Warren Commission member), and Richard Schweiker and Gary Hart (both of the Senate Intelligence Committee); seven of the eight congressmen on the House Assassinations Committee and its chief counsel, G. Robert Blakey; the Kennedy associates Joe Dolan, Fred Dutton, Richard Goodwin, Pete Hamill, Frank Mankiewicz, Larry O'Brien, Kenneth O'Donnell and Walter Sheridan; the Secret Service agent Roy Kellerman, who rode with the president in the limousine; the presidential physician, Dr. George Burkley; Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago; Frank Sinatra; and the ''60 Minutes'' producer Don Hewitt. All of the above, a la Burrough, were idiots."(Letter to the Book Review Desk, New York Times, from Jefferson Morley, Washington; Norman Mailer Provincetown, Mass.; Anthony Summers Waterford, Ireland; David Talbot San Francisco; published June 17, 2007.)
“Right-wing radical and Kennedy denouncer Thomas Vallee had arranged to be off work for JFK’s visit”
Well CLEARLY no matter whether it was GHWBush, Halliburton/Brown&Root, or even Richard Millhouse Nixon hisself, it was a “vast right wing conspiracy”.
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