Former White House attache to talk about JFK assassination

[Peter Lemkin]

National security, Magda, national security.

I've never heard of him. Funny he waited 50 years to start talking, and there is this conflict over where he was at the time of the assassination.

Here he is a year ago talking about his role in the Cuban Missile Crisis:

http://www.patriotledger.com/features/x1...ile-Crisis

Well, many others have kept their silences for many decades and then either decided to talk or been outed by some researcher* or document/others' revelations [A]. Then there are also disinformation agents that are being ramped up for the 50th . I do NOT claim to know which this person fits in. I'm more interested in how he was two places half a country apart at the same time on that infamous day. Can we at least pin down if he was SS and if he was in D.C. or in Dallas?! He bears watching whether in A or B! - He could even be a hybrid....I smell a rat. I thought Bush Sr. and Nixon took the 'cake' not remembering where they were when JFK was killed [or so they said]; but this guy does them one better and remembers being at two places, and at each having an important SS position, which he details at different times - never reconciling the two - he couldn't have been at both, and was at one or the other - or neither! ::

*An example of someone previous unknown outside of the intell community is Joe Shimon - who was mentioned prominently in Janney's Mary's Mosaic as a 'White House' 'security and sometimes hitman'.

[B]The best I can figure from what is on the internet, in 2010 when he first started to speak out he said he was in the White House. Now he lectures and says he was in the Dallas Detail....go figure.::

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Comments: Norman Katz Where were you when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated? Norm Katz was in the White House, attached to the Secret Service... He was an eyewitness to the urgent incoming teletype messages about the assassination and the reactions of White House insiders. He was a part of the scrambling to make sure the United States government went on uninterrupted. He personally interacted with President Lyndon B. Johnson on numerous occasions. He has original photographs and memorabilia from the assassination and LBJ's swearing in. He knows the "back story" behind the early years of LBJ's presidency. He has intimate, firsthand knowledge of the secret procedures in place to protect the President, as well as other clandestine operations. In March, 2010, the US Government (for the very first time) gave Norm Katz clearance to tell his stories and relate his experiences. Not just history in the making, but secret history - accounts and reports that have never been heard before! For almost 40 minutes you could have heard a pin drop as he captivated us with his account of the John F. Kennedy assassination in Dallas on November 22, 1963, and the Cuban Missile Crisis in July 1962, with a first-hand, "I was there" report of long classified information on those historic events. Mr. Katz, a retired Secret Service Agent who served in the JFK and LBJ White house eras, is a Sharon, MA resident, active in town government, business, and community service, has a remarkable background as an actual participant in these important national and international events, and presents them in what can only be described as an honest, educational, and colorful way. Mr. Katz guided us through a look at the complex system of government back-up, assuring unbroken presidential leadership in the event of a national disaster, and behind the scenes accounts and graphic photos of the tragic death of President JFK and subsequent elevation of Lyndon B. Johnson. His report on the Cuban Missile Crisis - noting that that event "was the closest that the world has ever come to all-out nuclear war" was memorable, indeed.

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Eyewitness Turns Back Clock a Half Century to JFK's Assassination

Foundation for Belmont Education-sponsored event brings history to students with a visit from Secret Service agent Norman Katz.
Posted by Lisa Gibalerio , May 28, 2013 at 10:22 PM





[B][B]Thanks to grant funding provided by the Foundation for Belmont Education, tenth graders at the Belmont High School were given the opportunity to hear from Norman Katz, one of the Secret Service agents on duty in Dallas when John F. Kennedy was assassinated.[/B][/B]
[B][B]"Assassinations have happened before," he told the audience of sophomores, "and they will happen again."[/B][/B]
[B][B]Katz outlined how far security measures have come in the 50 years since Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas. [/B][/B]
[B][B]"In the early 1960s, we weren't even thinking about assassination; we were just there to offer general protection."[/B][/B]
[B][B]He added that 50 years ago, there were 312 Secret Service agents employed by the US Government; there are more than 7,000 today. President Obama, he stated, receives more than 400 death threats a year and wears a bullet-proof suit and underwear. [/B][/B]
[B][B]Technology back then, he said, consisted of hand signals and walkie-talkies when they worked, he added.[/B][/B]
[B][B]The students seemed especially rapt when he described the moments that JFK was shot and killed. The limousine, he said, should have sped off when the first shot was fired, but the driver slowed down thinking the limo had backfired. The second shot hit Kennedy in the neck. [/B][/B]
[B][B]"He would have survived that neck shot," Katz said, "it was the third shot that shattered his brain."[/B][/B]
[B][B]The students saw photos of that were taken during the shootings as well as photos of JFK's autopsy.[/B][/B]
[B][B]For a group of students born 35 years after these events occurred, they certainly left this presentation with a clear idea of what happened on that fateful November day in Dallas in 1963. And from the perspective of a man who was standing just a few feet away when it happened.[/B][/B]