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  1. 11 hours ago, Paul Jolliffe said:

    Thanks, Vince.

    I will get your first book.

    I was under the impression that Boring and JFK got along well - if, as you write, Boring was a suspect (and I am not disputing your suspicions), then can we take seriously any Secret Service agent statement about their personal regard for President Kennedy?

    "One can smile and smile and be a villain."

    History is littered with people who seemingly got along in their public personas, yet there was a real (hidden) side- witness even regular folks who may be friendly with their bosses but secretly hate them. Witness the warm and friendly correspondence between Hoover and RFK, yet we know what they really thought of each other.

    It could always have been a "nothing personal" situation...but JFK's security was abysmal on all fronts and the buck stops with the Secret Service. When you get my first book, you will see why I find those three agents the most suspicious.

  2. 1 hour ago, Paul Jolliffe said:

    Vince,

    When you spoke with Donald Lawton, what did he think about Emory Roberts? Why did Roberts pull him off the back of the X-100? What explanation was he willing to offer?

    In your research on Emory Roberts, did you find anything in his background (any connections to Military Intelligence, or the CIA, just to pick a couple) that might explain his order to Lawton? 

    Who told Roberts to order Lawton to stand down? 

    Who told the Secret Service NOT to cover the rooftops?

    Who kept the Dallas motorcycle cops off the sides of the limo?

    Who routed the limo through Dealey Plaza via Elm Street? 

    I spoke to Lawton in 1995 and he died in 2013. I didn't mention Roberts specifically during my interview, one of my failings- I should have.

    Lawton DID say "you always have regrets, remorse. Who knows- if THEY [emphasis added] had left guys on the car. You can hindsight yourself to death." The "they" is obviously the Secret Service (and Roberts, especially). Lawton also told a trusted colleague "I should have been there [on the back of the limo]" as he had been on 11/18/63 and in Chicago on 3/23/63.

    Roberts died in 1973. He became Appointment Secretary to LBJ while still an active member of the Secret Service, an unheard of and unprecedented move.

    Who told Roberts? Floyd Boring, the assistant SAIC (my three suspects in the Secret Service for what did and did not occur are Boring, Roberts and Greer).

    The rooftops not being guarded had to have come from above- either Boring or people above him (in another organization, perhaps?). The Secret Service covered all multi-story buildings along the 11/18/63 Tampa trip, JFK's longest domestic motorcade (28 miles long!), yet they did not do this in Dallas, a mere 11 miles in comparison.

    The motorcycle officers were kept away (just like the phony JFK order about agents being told not to be on the car) by agent Lawson (obviously acting on higher authority- he was in communication with Boring, who gave him the Dallas advance. He lamely said it was his understanding that Kennedy did not like all those motorcycles besides him (never mind the fact that they were there in good number and formation on all the prior Texas stops---and countless other trips--before Dallas, a situation the HSCA rightly named "uniquely insecure"), yet he testified under oath to the WC (Dulles, specifically) that there was not a specific order in this instance from JFK---!

    The route, which was changed (as confirmed in an interview I did with SAIC Gerald Behn), was under the control of agents Lawson and Sorrels, who were both working on higher authority: Floyd Boring, the planner of the Texas trip from the Secret Service point of view. You need to see my first of five books SURVIVOR'S GUILT: THE SECRET SERVICE AND THE FAILURE TO PROTECT PRESIDENT KENNEDY

     

  3. 6 hours ago, Joseph McBride said:

    Vince Palamara has done all of us researchers, and our country, a great

    service with his indefatigable and revelatory research into

    the disloyal and deadly involvement of the Secret Service in the assassination. Vince

    exemplifies the good advice the late Penn Jones gave me and other researchers,

    to "Pick one aspect of the case, one that hasn't been studied enough,

    and research the hell out of it." Vince sure has done that, and I hope he continues

    to dig under every stone and pore through every document and video and still he can find and

    share it all with us as he has been doing. He is the citizen researcher par excellence.

    thanks!!

  4. 4 hours ago, Joe Bauer said:

    Vince's response to Blaine and Hill is light compared to the heavy handed, arrogant, condescending and laughingly snarky "obsessed nut case labeling" insulting comments they made about him in that nationally broadcast/ huge national audience interview imo.

    Blaine and Hill couldn't have been more slanderous. 

    If Vince truly did have some really bad mental, character or even criminal aspects to his personal background history these two would have found every tidbit and shredded him even further. But he didn't and they couldn't.

    One man ( Vince Palamara ) has had the courage and extensive research effort commitment will to really dig deep ( instead of light surface scraping speculation ) into the super impacting and important SS aspect of the JFK case, including personally contacting these most directly involved JFK security men to get their stories and views no matter how uncomfortable and defensive and even angry it made them in response.

    Vince has taken their public whipping and slanderous wrath in return quite restrained imo.

    He doesn't personally attack these men's personal character like they do his.

    He disputes many of their claims as false based on his research. But he doesn't call them names like lying losers or drunks or even strongly infer such things. 

    If Jesse Ventura ( also one of the fiercest critics of JFK's SS detail and a VP defender and even promoter ) was the main target of these agents reputation impugning campaign instead of VP, Ventura would have attacked them like a pit bull and done so with his often national stage audience.

    VP is the one researcher who has given us the deep truth about the inner workings of JFK's closest personal security detail, the actual men that made it up and a detailed history of that security and how it worked prior and up to 11,22,1963.

    Really important information to better understand the ultimate worst case scenario failure of that security on 11,22,1963 and which demanded such a deep inquiry. And if left only to the official body of the JFK assassination investigation ( The Warren Commission ) or even our national media it was just not going to happen.

    Thanks a lot, Joe! And I have reason to take it personally, too---Blaine's friends harassed me at work and online, deleted blogs and reviews and ole Blaine himself had his lawyer threaten me over my blog back in 2009!

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    1) 0:01 Clint Hill on the wounds\what he implies versus the records and the facts (including fellow agents Winston Lawson and Sam Kinney ) 2) 2:49 Gerald Blaine's poor taste "assassin's club" comment about the grassy knoll versus what his colleagues said---Lem Johns: shot from knoll plus debunks notion that he was the mysterious knoll agent + Specter rips Hill for drinking the morning of 11/22/63; 3) 5:18 Clint Hill on the bubble top versus the record and the reality (many films and photos proving the top was used in good weather + Sam Kinney [1994 audio] took sole responsibility for its removal on 11/22/63 in interviews with me); 4) 19:16 Clint Hill on Greer versus what others said (but admits the brake lights went on!)----press witnesses Bo Byers, Mary Woodward + Dave Powers + press Tom Dillard: photographers flatbed truck cancelled at last minute; + ABC's Ron Gardner confirms building rooftops normally guarded, confirming my research; 5) 31:24 Gerald Blaine regarding the agent's alleged "silence" [yet they spoke to me in droves, as did Blaine and Hill] and the phony 11/25/63 meeting versus the real stories: Jesse Ventura [I am on 16 pages of his book] mentions my research on CNN + ABC's Ron Gardner on 11/22/63 wondering why agents weren't near the limo as they normally were + Clint Hill tells the REAL story in 2010 + fellow agents Sam Kinney, Floyd Boring, Gerald Behn, Don Lawton and Winston Lawson----plus Florida Congressman Sam Gibbons, who rode with JFK on 11/18/63 in Tampa, Dave Powers, Kenny O'Donnell----confirm that JFK did not order the agents off his car! [includes letter from June Kellerman, widow of Roy Kellerman] + amazing discovery of mine: Fort Worth police officer Rocky Stone on 11/22/63 says that President Kennedy was very cooperative with the Secret Service and he always went by their decisions!

  6. 3 hours ago, Anthony Thorne said:

    A powerful moment from the opening montage in the movie.

    Two men on live TV are listening to an interview with a woman in Dallas.

    "Where did the shots come from?"

    "The shots came from the hill."

    A hand immediately attempts to reach towards the microphone, to take the woman off the air.

    The woman in question is Jean Hill-see 11:13

     

  7. 18 minutes ago, Ron Bulman said:

    I'm really happy to see this available to the general public on a venue like Showtime, for those of us who have access to it.  Nothing out there ever before even close to like it imo.

    That said, I was really disappointed last Friday when I didn't see it on Showtimes main channel schedule.  My wife found it for me thankfully (she also found it very enlightening, asking questions while we watched, with grandkids coming in asking her other questions, iow interrupting my focus!). 

    From a couple of links to articles I posted I thought the film was to premiere in prime time on Friday night on the Showtime main channel.  Excellent exposure.  I guess they weren't quite ready to go that far.  However, I'd like to commend Showtime for having the balls to show it at all.  A major venue, within the M$M.  That took courage in the world we live in.  It's Out There now for the world to see if they choose.  Thanks to Oliver Stone and his backers for making that possible, pursuing it.  And of course, again to Jim for writing it and all the others who participated. 

    My children and grandchildren may never read many if any of my many books on the subject or this forum or others on it.  But I think my kids will watch this and in turn maybe the grandkids too.  That's important to me, that they learn True History (and how it affects them today and in the future).  Kudos to Showtime for showing it. 

       

    Hi, Ron! It WILL be on regular Showtime for the whole world to see 11/22/2021 [last Friday was streaming and Amazon Prime only] and on DVD and BLU RAY in February 2022 (including the FOUR HOUR version)!

  8. 7 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

    In the long four hour version, we spend more time on this. I think you can tell we snipped stuff on Indonesia and Nasser.

    For example, Indonesia, we had Lisa Pease and Professor Brad Simpson,  the foremost American scholar on the 1965 overthrow, and how it was a result of Kennedy's murder.

    Which indicates the whole coup d'etat aspect of it.  And we had Rakove and Muehlenbeck on Nasser and the Middle East.

    But as much as the four hour version fills in, we still had to leave some very interesting stuff out, like Gochenaur and Henry Lee. That is why there will be a book of the film.

     

     

    A book of the film? Excellent! Just like there was a book of the film for the JFK movie. I wonder: what ever became of Jane Rusconi?

  9. 6 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

    One of the things we did in the film was to try and show how Moore did the wrong thing-i believe  criminal in nature--and nothing happened to him.

    Bolden tried to do the right thing, and he gets indicted and railroaded.

    That is how the JFK case works.  The Secret Service was a disgrace in this case. And Blaine can write as many bad books as he likes, it won't go away.

    So true, Jim. 

  10. While I genuinely loved the whole thing and have NO criticisms (!), my favorite parts were (naturally) the Secret Service related sections about Elmer Moore and James Gouchenauer  and especially about CE399 and the medical evidence; wow and triple wow! Aguilar, Mantik, Wecht, and others did a tremendous job here. I also really liked Barry Ernest's segment on Vicki Adams and the girls on the stairs. i just finished it and I am blown away. This documentary was so amazing and I cannot wait to purchase it in February AND to see the four-hour version! I will be watching this one again soon via streaming. Brilliant job on the production and narration and compiling the clips together; so densely packed with info.

  11. I am thanked at the end (I supplied some photos and info) but I blew my chance to be in it: for every documentary I have done, there are two others that never see the light of day. I was tied up with work and other things at the time and I was invited on short notice with no mention of Stone or anything…so I thought it was going to be another one of those “film and bury” documentaries. Oh, well.

  12. I thought it was fantastic-the best JFK assassination documentary to date! While I am immensely proud of my appearances on both A COUP IN CAMELOT and even the warts-and-all THE MEN WHO KILLED KENNEDY, JFK REVISITED: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS is the best one ever! Nice consolation prize at the end, too (I contributed several Elmer Moore, James Rowley and related photos):

    May be an image of text that says 'Times Company 5 Inc. ry, University of Georgia tock Inc. agazine ates Navy ion News Archives tertainment Inc. ilm Archive University of North Texas Spe Reuters Geraldo Rivera The Sixth Floor Museum at United States Air F University of New England Center Veritone The Cyril H. Wecht In "FINALE" FROM JFK Music Composed and Conducted by John Williams Courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. THE FILMMAKERS WISH To THANK BART WALKER MARK NOLAND KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY MILICENT CRANOR DAVID JOSEPHS MALCOLM BLUNT GREG POULGRAIN TINA BETTENCOURT VINCE PALAMARA JAMES w. DOUGLASS End Titles made with ENDCRAWL'

     

  13. 5 hours ago, Richard Price said:

    Makes one wonder WHAT was different about Dallas!  What individuals and entities had influence or direct control of all of the changes made to the protocols?  Who was removed from the normal procedures?  The plan has to go back all the way, which in my mind leads directly to LBJ.  It was HIS home state and he was known for controlling everything in his orbit.

    Thanks! That is why I have continued to make these videos (and why I wrote several books). Dallas was decidedly different.

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