28-10-2009, 07:37 PM
Bernice Moore Wrote:b...p.s the missing dead agent is shipman and shown he would have driven in dallas if he had not died od a heart attack....not long before the trip...
Thanks for all the Vince P links, B., I look forward to having a rather longer look at them over the weekend.
Shipman? An uncommonly timely death:
Quote:Associated Press, “White House Chauffeur Dies at Camp David,” Washington Post, October 16, 1963, p.C9:
“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.”