11-04-2014, 05:18 PM
Albert Doyle Wrote:Good review. Some typos in the last chapter and elsewhere.
I read somewhere that the regular driver for JFK's motorcades died of a heart attack a month or so before the assassination putting Greer in the driver's seat.
Nearly, but not quite:
Associated Press, "White House Chauffeur Dies at Camp David," Washington Post, October 16, 1963, p.C9
Quote:"Thomas Shipman, 51, one of President Kennedy's Secret Service drivers, died Monday at the presidential retreat at nearby Camp David.
The cause of death was not immediately determined pending a coroner's report.
Mr. Shipman, a native of Washington, was a District policeman from 1936 until 1950 when he transferred to the White House police force. He became a Secret Service agent in 1954.
Mr. Shipman occasionally drove the President's limousine, but, more normally, drove the carload of Secret Service agents who follow directly behind the President.
He is survived by his wife, Jacqueline, of the home address, 3817 Van Ness st. nw."
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"
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