28-05-2018, 01:22 AM
To Mr. Dagosto: I thought I read that it was at Jackie's insistance, but I could be wrong.
"The 85-year-old had only been assigned to work on First Lady Jackie Kennedy's detail that day and spent years wracked with grief about whether he could have saved her husband."
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/histo...assination
This site seems to indicate that Hill was assigned to Jackie for a year AFTER 11-22-63 but not before. Frankly, I don't know the true picture on this issue.
But as for the other arguments you make about the possible cancellation of the Dallas trip, I'm pretty sure that the balance of your presentation is wide of the point:
JFK had made plans to attend the Army-Navy football game in Chicago in November, 2, 1963. The trip was called off and the excuse was used that JFK had to deal with the Coup against Diem. If he already "had tickets" to the Army-Navy game and the trip was called off, he would have to be given a reason. All the sources I have seen say that the Diem Coup story was just a cover. When you add the Tampa scare on top of that along with the violence against Adlai Stevenson in Dallas two weeks prior, then JFK would have had to be pretty dumb not to get the picture.
As for the argument that if there was advance notice, then the Secret Service would have taken precautions, this stands logic on its head. Every indication was that the Secret Service were the assassins, or at least were the employers of the assassins. In my opinion, the evidence for that is overwhelming. Just read From An Office Building With A High Powered Rifle by FBI agent Don Adams. He makes it clear that the Secret Service tampered with his FBI research on the whereabouts of Joseph Milteer and his whereabouts on 11-22-63. Milteer, who had proven advance knowledge of the assassination, famously said "the more bodyguards he has, the easier to kill him." That can mean only one thing: the Secret Service were the killers.
Additionally, when the shots rang out, the limo came to a stop. William Greer, the Secret Service Driver looked back at JFK when the car was almost stopped---not once, but twice. He clearly was making sure that JFK was dead. After that, he sped to the hospital. Except for Clint Hill, none of the Secret Service agents in the follow-up car moved an inch.
The Secret Service was trained to hit the gas pedal to the metal when they heard shots. Instead of doing that, Secret Service driver Greer looked back twice at the wounded JFK before he even moved the limo. Most people have concluded that the brake lights of the limo were on when the head shot occured.
I guess many people who read material on this site don't get (in my opinion) the real picture of the JFK hit, the advance warnings and the role of the Secret Service. In my opinion, there isn't any real doubt about that.
James Lateer
"The 85-year-old had only been assigned to work on First Lady Jackie Kennedy's detail that day and spent years wracked with grief about whether he could have saved her husband."
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/histo...assination
This site seems to indicate that Hill was assigned to Jackie for a year AFTER 11-22-63 but not before. Frankly, I don't know the true picture on this issue.
But as for the other arguments you make about the possible cancellation of the Dallas trip, I'm pretty sure that the balance of your presentation is wide of the point:
JFK had made plans to attend the Army-Navy football game in Chicago in November, 2, 1963. The trip was called off and the excuse was used that JFK had to deal with the Coup against Diem. If he already "had tickets" to the Army-Navy game and the trip was called off, he would have to be given a reason. All the sources I have seen say that the Diem Coup story was just a cover. When you add the Tampa scare on top of that along with the violence against Adlai Stevenson in Dallas two weeks prior, then JFK would have had to be pretty dumb not to get the picture.
As for the argument that if there was advance notice, then the Secret Service would have taken precautions, this stands logic on its head. Every indication was that the Secret Service were the assassins, or at least were the employers of the assassins. In my opinion, the evidence for that is overwhelming. Just read From An Office Building With A High Powered Rifle by FBI agent Don Adams. He makes it clear that the Secret Service tampered with his FBI research on the whereabouts of Joseph Milteer and his whereabouts on 11-22-63. Milteer, who had proven advance knowledge of the assassination, famously said "the more bodyguards he has, the easier to kill him." That can mean only one thing: the Secret Service were the killers.
Additionally, when the shots rang out, the limo came to a stop. William Greer, the Secret Service Driver looked back at JFK when the car was almost stopped---not once, but twice. He clearly was making sure that JFK was dead. After that, he sped to the hospital. Except for Clint Hill, none of the Secret Service agents in the follow-up car moved an inch.
The Secret Service was trained to hit the gas pedal to the metal when they heard shots. Instead of doing that, Secret Service driver Greer looked back twice at the wounded JFK before he even moved the limo. Most people have concluded that the brake lights of the limo were on when the head shot occured.
I guess many people who read material on this site don't get (in my opinion) the real picture of the JFK hit, the advance warnings and the role of the Secret Service. In my opinion, there isn't any real doubt about that.
James Lateer