JFK Secret Service Agent Sam Kinney, driver of follow-up car in Tampa, Dallas, etc

[Vince Palamara]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMdELC_UnpQ

JFK Secret Service Agent Sam Kinney, driver of follow-up car in Tampa, Dallas, etc

Authorized interview with former Secret Service agent Sam Kinney conducted on 3/5/94 (I interviewed Sam three different times: 10/19/92; 3/5/94; 4/15/94. I also corresponded with his wife Hazel)
[sam passed away 7/21/97]
~an excerpt from this interview appears elsewhere (as with Gerald Behn, Floyd Boring, Don Lawton, John Norris, and several others, Sam agreed to have the conversation recorded)~
A note on methodology: sometimes I had to play the naïve and agreeable "student", so to speak, in order to keep the conversation going and not offend Sam. It is what it is. That said, I think this is a very good interview. Sam also agreed to be recorded on 4/15/94 and both of these interviews are in the National Archives. These are cassette-to-cd-to-dvdr transfers and I was shuttling back and forth between Ohio and PA a lot of the time AND the cheap recorder I used would sometimes malfunction, but this is 95-99 percent of the actual interview (the transfer runs out at the end). OTHER topics were covered on the other two interview dates- see my book "Survivor's Guilt: The Secret Service and the Failure to Protect President Kennedy" for the details.

Sam adamantly denounces the notion that JFK ordered the agents off the limo OR ordered them to do anything (thus debunking colleague Gerald Blaine's future book "The Kennedy Detail"); Sam debunks William Manchester and, in one instance, Jim Bishop, as well as the book "Mortal Error"; Sam was adamant, as he was in all my interviews with him, that he was solely responsible for the removal of the bubbletop on 11/22/63, thus debunking Jim Lehrer's book on the subject; Sam's windshield hit with blood and brain matter during assassination (after head shot); Sam had the piece of the rear of JFK's skull and said it WAS indeed from the back of President Kennedy's head; Sam saw all three shots hit without acknowledging a missed shot; Sam believes there was a conspiracy (although Oswald was the lone shooter, he felt); etc

Note: Sam was not interviewed by the Warren Commission. Sam was interviewed by William Manchester but his transcript will not be released until 2067. Sam was also interviewed by the HSCA- the staff interview report was only released in the late 1990's, right around the time Sam passed away. Sam's only tv interview was a short human interest segment on the "Today" show in 1993 (see another video on my channel for that clip)
http://www.amazon.com/Survivors-Guilt-Service-Failure-President/dp/1937584607/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373914997&sr=8-1&keywords=vince+palamara

[John Dolva]

Interesting interview. Worth listening to. I found the accents and the volume differences a bit difficult but think I got the gist of most of it. Interesting he thinks it was a conspiracy. Has he ever elaborated on that? I think I heard him say that there were three shots and the second hit connally?

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I wonder if you could clear up a couple of things for me. Is the statement that Sorrels and HD Holmes thunbed through the Z film correct?

Have you ever asked or heard any SS guy mention Ewald Peters? Do you have any idea of how to get a pic of him and is it knowable who in the SS was a friend of him?

edit typo

Edited September 30, 2013 by John Dolva

[Vince Palamara]

Sorrels was involved in the initial possession of the Zapruder film for the Secret Service.

I neve heard of that person Ewald Peters

[Chris Newton]

Ewald Peters was West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's Chief of Security during the Kennedy/Johnson years. At least until he was arrested for war crimes and subsequently hanged himself in jail in '64.