Vince Palamara

Hi, Dan! I will see if I can (the publisher seems to prefer I keep a tight lid on it until publication). That said, see my other comments to everyone else. If I can, I will

I believe my book is a paradigm shifter for the better. It's greatest strength is the benefit of hindsight (56-plus years), the ARRB releases, etc. My big "tag line" on my book is that it is NOT the "same ole same ole": SBT, Oswald's bio, theories, rinse, repeat, zzzzzz Also----no tangential waters: dozens/hundreds of pages of "fluff". I like everything to the point.

Thanks, Anthony! Oh, yes---Trine Day seems to be doing well. Kindle is really keeping things going, no doubt. My first two books have done very well...my last two books did so-so. Unfortunately, not a whole lot of people are into the Secret Service like I am LOL My new book coming out early next year is something people have been asking me to do, off and on, for years---write a detailed book on just the assassination and what I believe/know happened. I think it turned out really well.

It covers all aspects regarding the assassination- the physical evidence, the eyewitness evidence, the medical evidence, Oswald, Ruby, Tippit, suspects, the state of the case, what is valid, what is not, etc.. I firmly believe in the phrase "don't bore us- get to the chorus." You won't find dozens or hundreds of pages of tangential material where you are asking yourself "when can we get to the point" or "is this truly relevant and important?" I wrote a massively detailed work that gets straight to the point and is firmly NOT the "same ole same ole" when it comes to many assassination books.

Sounds like a large body of work there Vince! I'll second Joe's comments above. Sometime in the future could we arrange a Skype link to DPUK so our membership can get an interview with yourself and Bart to discuss the book? Thanks, Pete! Sounds good to me!

Thanks a lot, Joe! This one is my best.

MY BEST BOOK! COMING SPRING 2021. HONEST ANSWERS ABOUT THE MURDER OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY: A NEW LOOK AT THE JFK ASSASSINATION (2021) Over 500 pages; a lot of detail, specifics, and documentation; decidedly NOT the “same ole same ole”. This one turned out great!

I met Tom Wilson when Harry Livingstone and I filmed autopsy x-ray technician Jerrol Custer on 11/22/1991 (myself, Wilson and Custer all come from Pittsburgh, PA, with Wilson and Custer living just a street away). The contents of this interview ended up in High Treason 2 (and, to a lesser extent in Killing The Truth). Wilson was quite a curmudgeon. I would use another word, but I don't want the moderators to block me haha. Wilson, as you will see on the tail end of this video, freaked out and did not want to be filmed. He just presented in Dallas at the first A.S.K. conference (which was filmed before a fairly large audience) and would end up appearing on episode 6 of The Men Who Killed Kennedy in 1995 (I was on episode 7, but I digress). For some reason, he did not like this one bit. On a personal note, I found his stuff fascinating but unconvincing. It seemed pretty far-fetched, to be honest. Postscript: Custer (who I would end up filming again--this time with author William Law in March 1998---died in 2000 and Wilson died soon after!)

Thanks a lot! I think a lot of you will be impressed with my assassination-only book coming out early next year: THE JFK ASSASSINATION UNCOVERED: HONEST ANSWERS AFTER ALL THESE YEARS ABOUT THE MURDER OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY (2021) It is between 400-500 pages at the moment, but it's not about quantity*--it should always be about quality and new evidence/ assessments. I can tell you this: my book is NOT the same ole same ole and there is a lot of (new) information that will pleasantly surprise a lot of you (NOT the typical book that takes you, ad naseum, thru the single bullet theory, Oswald's biography, etc. Those already exist many times over. Paradigm shifts are required now). My other four books focused on the Secret Service, the Secret Service in the context of the assassination, or the medical evidence. THIS one is about the assassination. Like my other four books, it will be published by Trine Day. I would like it to come out even sooner, but I have no control over that LOL (unless I went the CreateSpace venue, which I refuse to do). * I only mention the length because I have come across far too many brief books. One book on the case is only 76 pages long and they are charging full price (!)- c'mon, now! Vince Palamara

Fair enough. Good to hear from you, David! I look forward to your next book. Your first book is a classic.

Interesting!

The Ferrie and Guy Banister references are the best!

See my post, Pat--I'll bet you didn't catch his David Ferrie and Guy Banister references...and Lifton!

See my post, Jim--I'll bet you didn't catch his David Ferrie and Guy Banister references...and Lifton!

Deciphering Dylan [selected EXCERPTS]: "Slide down the [GUY] banister, go get your coat [DAVID] Ferry 'cross the Mersey and go for the throat There's three bums comin' all dressed in rags [THE THREE TRAMPS] There's a party going on behind the Grassy Knoll [CONSPIRACY/SHOOTERS PLURAL] Put your foot in the tank and then step on the gas Try to make it to the triple underpass [GREER AND THE SLOWING OF THE LIMO] Being led to the slaughter like a sacrificial lamb He said, "Wait a minute, boys, you know who I am?" "Of course we do, we know who you are!" [SECRET SERVICE...BETRAYAL?] What is the truth, and where did it go? Ask Oswald and Ruby, they oughta know We've already got someone here to take your place [LBJ] Thousands were watching, no one saw a thing It happened so quickly, so quick, by surprise Right there in front of everyone's eyes Greatest magic trick ever under the sun Perfectly executed, skillfully done Hold on, I've been led into some kind of a trap They mutilated his body and they took out his brain What more could they do? They piled on the pain [LIFTON BODY ALTERATION THEORY] Throw the gun in the gutter and walk on by [STORM DRAIN THEORY] That magic bullet of yours has gone to my head [SINGLE BULLET THEORY] I'm just a patsy ["I'M JUST A PATSY"-LHO] like Patsy Cline Never shot anyone from in front or behind ["I DIDN'T SHOOT ANYONE, NO SIR"] Zapruder's film I seen night before They killed him once [ASSASSINATION] and they killed him twice [CHARACTER ASSASSINATION] Play it for that strip club owner named Jack [RUBY] Don't worry, Mr. President, help's on the way Your brothers are comin', there'll be hell to pay [AG RFK, TEDDY]

Not sure myself.

Points well taken, Joe! Yes: it makes zero sense that they allegedly "didn't have the manpower" (according to Blaine), yet they had the manpower for a much longer motorcade. Please see my presentation video posted earlier and elsewhere.

BTW, fascinating info!!

Security is both overt and covert. Agents didn't always ride on the rear of the car, the top wasn't always used, etc. Hundreds/thousands of plainclothes police and detectives in the crowds and building rooftops being guarded compensated for this back in the FDR-JFK era (I would even go up to LBJ, perhaps Nixon eras, as well). Dallas was awful: building rooftops were not guarded (this was only an 11-mile motorcade. JFK's longest domestic motorcade-Tampa, 11/18/63- was 28 miles long and multi-story rooftops were guarded). Other than Hill intermittently on Main Street, security was not overt and there wasn't much of an covert force, either. JFK's longest foreign motorcade, Berlin, was even longer than Tampa, yet they made sure to pull out all the overt and covert security they could. I wouldn't say for sure that security was truly "invisible" in Grand Forks and "only" rooftops were guarded- as per normal protocol, a strong overt plainclothes force was more than likely in play. It could have APPEARED that those doorways were unsecured, but they probably were. If a young boy or girl (or priest/nun) decided to be a killer back then, they probably would have succeeded: they didn't seem to guard them too closely. IN MODERN TIMES, one thing greatly concerns me: everyone is allowed to use their iPhones and snap close-up pics and selfies with the president. An assassin could fashion something to maim or kill the president disguised AS a harmless iPhone. Just as the agents of old treated younger people/kids and priests/nuns as totally harmless, the modern agents treat these iPhones as harmless, as well...which just goes to show you that no protection is absolute or perfect. The point in Dallas was how awful it was, how much was stripped away, and how much was falsely blamed on President Kennedy. In the interest of time (as I said, I could have been up there for hours), I didn't literally read or include every single article, document, etc. That said, I did note about Germany and the thousands of plainclothes guards. There was often both a visible line of security (agents and/or police and/or military) and a covert force in the crowds, blending in and covering windows and weak spots the men lining the streets could miss.

I mean the conventional view of terrorism in the post-9/11 world. Security was great in Duluth.

Thanks for the info, Gary! Well, giving them their due, the agents and local authorities (and, sometimes, the military) would have had the ground-level covered, even if it may have seemed like no one was there. In fact, I would wager that the rooftop security made the lack of overt security on the ground somewhat unnecessary (at least as far as a show of force or police state mentality). Keep in mind this was decades before terrorism was an issue----they worried more about pistols and rifles back then.

FROM MY FIRST BOOK: 20 H 410/ SETH KANTOR REPORT: "A Western Union man who had been with us since we came down from Andrews Air Force Base came into the [Parkland Hospital] office. A nurse asked him about a report that a Secret Service agent had been killed out on the street. HE SAID THAT IT WAS TRUE. This was one of the immediate rumors which sprang up. It took several days for this particular rumor not to be believed in Dallas itself (FELLOW IN JAGGARS-CHILES-STOVALL who got it from a friend who got it from a POSTMAN* supposed to have been at the death scene that the shot and bleeding SS man was in on the plot to kill the President.)" [emphasis added] *the 1/22/77 issue of "The Continuing Inquiry" contains an article written by Penn Jones and Gary Shaw re: the "dead" agent incident as reported in a letter sent to Jim Garrison during the Clay Shaw trial: "A Mr. Robertson, Assistant Director of the Dallas or Fort Worth Secret Service office, confided to [friend of writer who requested anonymity] in 1963 that a plot to kill President Kennedy was planned and he did not want any part of it. On November 22, 1963, my friend was in the office of Mr. Robertson when all phones began to ring, about the time Kennedy was arriving at Carswell Air Force Base [in Fort Worth], Mr. Robertson then said, 'Well, this is it' and left the office. Since that time Mr. Robertson's family of seven children and wife have not seen or heard from him, yet his paychecks continue to be mailed to his home." Jones/ Shaw: "Our 1965 investigation led us to believe Robertson was in Dallas but was posing as a POSTAL INSPECTOR, but it was reported to us that he had left Dallas. We also learned from newsmen that something unusual did happen on Harwood [street] shortly before the turn to Main Street. No one wanted credit for this, but we were told by reliable newsmen that a man jumped in front of Kennedy's car on Harwood shouting, "Stop, I must tell you." The man, according to their report, was promptly wrestled to the ground and hustled away." [emphasis added] ----- To my great surprise, there are three reports that corroborate the above article, in conjunction with the overlooked Kantor report: The first is the actual LETTER sent to Garrison from an "Amy Britvar" dated 2/21/68 and originating from Turtle Creek Blvd. in Dallas, TX. [thanks go to John Armstrong and Jack White for the copy of this letter]! An internet people search for Britvar drew a blank, although there ARE other Britvars in Texas (further work will be done on locating this person). The second is a Treasury Department (U.S. Customs Service) document, dated 1/17/80, from Joseph G. Forrester, U.S. Customs, to Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti [thanks go to John Armstrong and Ed Sherry for this document; see above image]. The letter reads in part: "My interest in the Kennedy murder started in 1966 when I met an Air Force Master Sergeant at St. Albans Naval Hospital, Queens, New York. This sergeant, an elderly man, was suffering from terminal cancer. He stated that on November 22,1963 he was attached to Air Force One as an electronics technician. He further stated that after the President was shot a message was received over a military frequency that multiple assassins had attacked the President...a Secret Service agent. Mr. Robertson, stationed in the Dallas-Fort Worth area disappeared on November 22,1963, yet his family still receives his paychecks. The disappearance of an individual is not unusual except that it has been said that Mr. Robertson became aware of an assassins plot against the president. An assassin plot had been unearthed in Chicago a short time before President Kennedy's Dallas trip. Please do not misconstrue this letter. I am not a crank; but I am sincerely interested in this crucial investigation. I am willing to join an investigative team and if that is not possible, will make myself available for an interview by investigative officers." The third is a lengthy memorandum written by Vince Salandria, dated 1/31/67, regarding an interview with Rita Rollins, a Navy Nurse with an interesting story to tell.---the crucial part in question reads as follows: "The name of the person in Dallas...is Inez Robertson. CHUCK ROBERTSON, HER HUSBAND, WORKS AT THE POST OFFICE...Inez Robertson, actually saw them [men with guns] make a breakdown of the rifles. This tall man with long grey or white hair[-]he was in the station wagon. There is a luggage rack on the station wagon. It was a Rambler station wagon. This fellow with the mixed grey hair carried them [the armed men] to the airport...This tall man had been around Dallas the day before the assassination...THIS EPISODE HAS CAUSED FRICTION BETWEEN CHUCK ROBERTSON AND INEZ ROBERTSON. HE IS NOT IN DALLAS NOW." [emphasis added]

The Kennedy Detail Exposed: the real story about JFK's Secret Service The Kennedy Detail Exposed- the real story about JFK’s Secret Service by Vince Palamara 11/22/19, Dallas, TX (seventh annual JFK assassination conference). President Kennedy should have survived 11/22/63. Introduction by Don Ratliff. I met Oliver Stone at the conference (I was followed by author/actor/ director Sean Stone, son of Oliver Stone, who was in the audience, along with many other authors and researchers in 2016). The Q & A session at the end included fellow TMWKK participant Ed Tatro, among others. Very proud of my 11/22/2019 Dallas conference presentation; definitely my best one ever by a country mile!

Jim DiEugenio needs to see this