25-08-2009, 07:42 PM
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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Helen,
The SS clearly stood down in Dallas. I think Fletcher Prouty's observations are spot on. But, to further muddy the mud, President Kennedy's security was conspicuously lax during his Tampa trip, immediately before Dallas, as well.
JFKresearch has a great page with a lot of photos of Tampa the trip and motorcade: http://www.jfkresearch.com/page8.html
I don't know the specifics of the Tampa trip as well as I know the specifics of the Dallas setup, wherein they stripped ALL security and did everything but paint a bullseye on the President. But it looks like the SS left him wide open in Tampa.