25-08-2009, 04:48 PM
Myra Bronstein Wrote: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.
Or: why did the agents in the car behind JFK all pile out and run toward the grassy knoll? All their training should have been to put bodies around Kennedy and Jackie. They so doggedly DIDN'T follow SOP that you have to wonder why.
I agree with the post above me too, it's not enough to say "CIA did it" or "SS did it." So you have to suspect Emory, Kellerman or the other guy whose name slips my mind right now at least had a reason for ordering SS WHD and agents called up for Dallas to not follow their training, procedures and protocols. It looks like LBJ to me because he could have legitimately changed the parade route and told SS bosses what to do, but it's supposition, and the SS bosses didn't have to follow his command, so they're either complicit or got sucked in by a whopper of a lie. There's too many things they failed to do to make it the usual SNAFU.