09-09-2009, 02:12 AM
Charles Drago Wrote:I ask that you consider being more precise when you make statements that would inculpate entire agencies rather than individuals who serve as their officers and agents.
Neither the Secret Service nor the CIA killed John Kennedy. People linked to those agencies, however, in fact are among those guilty of the president's murder.
So too we must eschew the intellectual laziness that results in our significantly counter-productive blaming of Organized Crime, anti-Castro Cubans, Big Oil, Big Business, et al for a crime that reveals the deep connective tissue among those entities.
I think that's a good call. One of the difficulties here is separating the institutions from the people within them. For example, in January 1995 the Secret Service destroyed survey reports pertaining to JFK's trip to Dallas. Does this mean the SS destroyed the records? Not exactly. Someone with the necessary authority ordered these records be destroyed. That person(s) may not have even been in the SS. In fact, the person(s) may not have even had the authority. The records may have been destroyed illegally by someone who simply had the power to do so.
Researching the Secret Service is fraught with difficulties--although Vince Palamara did great work. What about SA Tom Shipman, a driver for JFK, who died suddenly in October or November '63? Apparently his death is not listed in the ancestry records. It's hard to find out anything about his background or the circumstances surrounding his death. Perhaps it wasn't even his real name.
http://www.geocities.com/zzzmail/palarma.htm
The same goes for Emory Roberts--who almost certainly played a facilitator role in the assassination, imo. Apparently he was an ex Baltimore cop, but that's it. It doesn't necessarily mean he came from Baltimore. Nothing more about his background, marital status, date of death, cause of death or anything else for that matter. All we know is that he apparently tucked LBJ into bed each night. Who recruited him into the SS in the first place? Was that his real name? Did he really die in the late '60s? Who the hell knows?
One question for Charles or anyone who might know: James J Rowley became SS Chief on September 1, 1961. Was that appointment made by Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon?