Vince Palamara Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Top JFK Secret Service agents…on game shows?! - YouTube Top JFK Secret Service agents…on game shows?! 1) SAIC Gerald Behn (JFK/LBJ era; in Secret Service 1939-1967): What’s My Line 12/27/59 2) SAIC Gerald Behn (JFK/LBJ era; in Secret Service 1939-1967): To Tell The Truth 2/26/62 3) Deputy Chief (and former OSS) Paul Paterni (JFK/LBJ era; in Secret Service FDR-Nixon): To Tell The Truth 1/28/62 4) Chief U.E. Baughman (Chief 11/22/48-January 1961; replaced by Rowley): To Tell The Truth 4/9/57 5) Chief U.E. Baughman (Chief 11/22/48-January 1961; replaced by Rowley): What’s My Line 11/27/55 Behn-took first vacation of the JFK era during the week of the JFK assassination! Baughman-“retired” by the Kennedy brothers (around the very same time Dulles, Bissel and Cabell were let go) because he did not believe the Mafia existed! Made the Chief 11/22/48 Paterni-former OSS man who worked with Ray Rocca (liaison to the WC) and James Angleton during WWII; involved in critical limo inspection; had been up for replacing Baughman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Andrews Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 "I'll take Assassins for $400, Art." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Palamara Posted January 25, 2021 Author Share Posted January 25, 2021 42 minutes ago, David Andrews said: "I'll take Assassins for $400, Art." haha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph McBride Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 (edited) Baughman's book SECRET SERVICE CHIEF is quite good. I read it when it came out (it was published in January 1962). It is rather prophetic. The fact that I had read it was one reason I was not entirely surprised when Kennedy was shot and saw through some of the lies that were quickly spewed out that day about what happened. I wrote my short story about the Kennedy assassination, "The Plot Against a Country," even before that, in October 1961, for my freshman English class at Marquette University High School in Milwaukee. I believe I was concerned because of the lack of security around Kennedy and my concern about the vulnerability I witnessed in him when I met him twice during the Wisconsin primary campaign in March and April 1960 while working as a volunteer on his campaign and was in close proximity to him, talking with him on both occasions. And I was a student of the Lincoln assassination and had visited Ford's Theater in May 1962 but was surprised to find it closed and gutted at the time, before its restoration. On that visit I went around the Capitol, including the floor of the House while it was in session and the cloakroom, with a page boy, who showed me something he said he wasn't supposed to show people, the catafalque on which Lincoln's coffin had rested. It was in a locked, secluded room in the Capitol covered with a dusty black sheet. Kennedy's coffin later rested in state on that same catafalque. Also in May 1962, when I was in the honor guard at a speech he gave in the Milwaukee Arena, I impulsively said "Hi, Jack!" to him afterward when I pulled back a curtain behind the presidential podium five feet away from him, and he nodded and smile, then turned and walked down a ramp into the Lincoln limousine in which he would be killed the following year. My father at a reception before that event had time to ask Kennedy one question. He asked, "Do you ever worry about being assassinated?" Kennedy replied that of course he realized that was possible but that if he thought about it all the time, he couldn't do his job. Edited January 25, 2021 by Joseph McBride Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Palamara Posted January 27, 2021 Author Share Posted January 27, 2021 On 1/25/2021 at 5:08 AM, Joseph McBride said: Baughman's book SECRET SERVICE CHIEF is quite good. I read it when it came out (it was published in January 1962). It is rather prophetic. The fact that I had read it was one reason I was not entirely surprised when Kennedy was shot and saw through some of the lies that were quickly spewed out that day about what happened. I wrote my short story about the Kennedy assassination, "The Plot Against a Country," even before that, in October 1961, for my freshman English class at Marquette University High School in Milwaukee. I believe I was concerned because of the lack of security around Kennedy and my concern about the vulnerability I witnessed in him when I met him twice during the Wisconsin primary campaign in March and April 1960 while working as a volunteer on his campaign and was in close proximity to him, talking with him on both occasions. And I was a student of the Lincoln assassination and had visited Ford's Theater in May 1962 but was surprised to find it closed and gutted at the time, before its restoration. On that visit I went around the Capitol, including the floor of the House while it was in session and the cloakroom, with a page boy, who showed me something he said he wasn't supposed to show people, the catafalque on which Lincoln's coffin had rested. It was in a locked, secluded room in the Capitol covered with a dusty black sheet. Kennedy's coffin later rested in state on that same catafalque. Also in May 1962, when I was in the honor guard at a speech he gave in the Milwaukee Arena, I impulsively said "Hi, Jack!" to him afterward when I pulled back a curtain behind the presidential podium five feet away from him, and he nodded and smile, then turned and walked down a ramp into the Lincoln limousine in which he would be killed the following year. My father at a reception before that event had time to ask Kennedy one question. He asked, "Do you ever worry about being assassinated?" Kennedy replied that of course he realized that was possible but that if he thought about it all the time, he couldn't do his job. Very interesting!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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