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Everything posted by Vince Palamara
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(2-hour version last night. 4-hour version today. I am going to watch/listen to the audio commentary by Stone and DiEiugenio for the 2-hour version tomorrow) Fantastic, fabulous, essential, classic, etc. This series defies words. I thoroughly enjoyed it and was blown away by the sheer amount of diverse content as presented by the impressive list of speakers. I took copious notes that almost looks like a small paperback LOL! Here is a great analogy [keeping in mind the "ET" controversy, which I equate to the Three Tramps in "JFK" in 1991]: If this was the Super Bowl, this team won 52-3 (would have been a shut out if not for the "ET"). Still a huge and impressive victory. I also highly recommend the book of the film- super impressive. The book almost acts as the unofficial "6-hour version."
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"see where fate caught up with Custer"---Jerrol Custer? Ouch- ok, that was bad. I understand your counterpoints. That said, you would think the agents who are supposedly traumatized would politely refuse to sign something like that and just agree to sign blank papers, pictures of JFK and Jackie pre-assassination, etc.
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I am, as well. Disgusting. I am an author and I would never sign anything like that, yet they are principal people (most of whom were there or, at the very least in Texas), involved with JFK and the case. I cannot fathom what would compel them to KEEP signing this crap- there is an epidemic of samples through the years on Ebay. I saved many of the JPEGS and put them in a Facebook album for posterity calling it "The tasteless autographed photos of the Kennedy detail."
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Former Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine (author of The Kennedy Detail): his views on JFK, Obama and Trump...disturbing. "Kennedy the Egotist Blaine's book makes numerous references to JFK being a great person to work and be around. But it seems Blaine includes such anecdotes to balance out his claims about JFK being reckless. Blaine takes direct aim at JFK in a way that contradicts most other accounts of his personality: All that was left was a sense of futility. You could do only so much. But the one thing you couldn't do was protect the president from his own ego. [The Kennedy Detail, page 332] Blaine compares JFK to his predecessor, Eisenhower, whom Blaine appears to have seen as a president with fewer personal faults: President Eisenhower did not have a narcissistic bone in his body. He was a career military man and grew up with armed men around him. When he achieved commanding rank he had protection. .... He did not necessarily like crowds and did not feel that he had to run over and shake every person's hand. He rode in a closed-top car and did not like parade-type motorcades. ... with the agents, but he had confidence in his agent's ability and he understood unnecessary exposure. [The Kennedy Detail, page 398] Is it just me or did I read that last paragraph as a not-so-subtle suggestion that JFK was narcissistic, felt a need to shake everyone's hand, was "warm and fuzzy", but in an un-presidential way, and did not have confidence in the Secret Service's ability and no understanding of unnecessary risk? https://www.sott.net/article/269016-Gerald-Blaine-and-the-Kennedy-Detail-Was-the-Secret-Service-Stood-Down-in-Dallas
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Clint Hill Signed JFK Pez Kennedy Secret Service PSA AD 10884 | eBay His buddy Gerald Blaine has some fun, too! JFK agent KEN GIANNOULES NOW JOINS THE HIT PARADE OF SIGNING ASSASSINATION PHOTOS FOR $$ (ON EBAY) WINSTON LAWSON---! "WITH BEST WISHES"?! For only 200 dollars, you could have purchased this autographed photo of JFK's murdered body in the limo as it races to Parkland Hospital. Secret Service agent Paul Landis (the autograph is his here) + Clint Hill, Gerald Blaine and Win Lawson are/were [Lawson is now dead] signing too many of these photos for $$! Awwwww--how sweet and tasteless of Hill to sign this assassination film image.