25-08-2009, 05:10 AM
Helen Reyes Wrote:...
ss obviously did stand down and totally ignored their own practices in advance sweeps, in not closing windows, in allowing last minute changes to the parade route and in allowing it to go forward after the route was published in dallas papers. further, local military intelligence was not used, neither for security nor for background checks on potential local threats. fletcher prouty talked about all this back in his guns of dallas.
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to me the question has always been, who changed the route, who stood the ss down, who told the local military commander intelligence wouldn't be needed?
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And who took the SS guys to the Cellar to get them drunk and sleep deprived the night/morning before. I get the impression that this is not the only time the SS was drunk and disorderly when they should have been resting up to guard President Kennedy. Still, the Cellar episode just feels like part of the setup.
And why exactly did the SS hate JFK? I keep reading that they did but why? Just because they were (are?) a bunch of rednecks and JFK was becoming a civil rights president? Because he integrated the SS? Because some, like Emory Roberts, thought their careers would go better with LBJ at the helm? Was it ambition combined with hate?
I accept as a fact that the SS stood down and worse. But I don't understand why.