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Post by Michael Capasse on Feb 2, 2021 11:30:26 GMT -5
Security Needs Protection The Warren Commission was very careful not to show the protection protocols as it related to the assassination. There is no manual in this record to understand what procedures were already in place to safeguard the president. The 1964 investigation, discussed some protocol in testimony, while the HSCA later concluded he did NOT receive adequate protection. A 1963 visit and parade from the POTUS, triggered a number of preliminary actions in cooperation with Secret Service and local police. Secret Service Protective Research Section is a government repository meant to gather information for the security of the Executive Branch. Thru this agency data is compiled regarding, threats to the president from various individuals in the area that could pose a danger. At the same time a parade route is being selected, usually straight down Main St. [in Dallas, the parade turned off at Dealey Plaza]. This motorcade was set up, to make two ninety degree turns, one which slowed the car considerably onto Elm St. under open windows. A clear violation of Secret Service protocol. Spectators on the railroad overpass was another not within security guidelines. Threats to the President along trips scheduled that fall, included, Chicago, Miami, Houston and Tampa. A suspect apprehended in Chicago, with a trunk full of guns and a car registration tied to Lee Harvey Oswald. Meanwhile, an extreme right wing nut from Miami told police a Kennedy assassination was in the works, to be done from an office building. A telex disappeared from the New Orleans office of the FBI warning of an assassination plot from a right wing extreme group. "Wanted for Treason" posters showing up, while Ambassador Adlai Stevenson is jostled and spit upon at a previous visit to Dallas. All the while the Dallas Police became the coordinating force for the arrangements, under the City Mayor/ CIA informant Earle Cabell. Cabell was the brother of Charles Cabell, the Deputy of the CIA, fired by JFK after the Bay of Pigs debacle. Documents released in 2017 confirmed the Mayor as a CIA asset and so a suspect in the complacency of security arrangements. The House Select Committee on Assassinations declared in 1979, that "the Secret Service was deficient in the performance of its duties" at the time of the assassination, and that President Kennedy did not receive adequate protection in Dallas. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Col. Fletcher Prouty"There were no Secret Service men on the roofs of any buildings in the area. There had been no precautions taken to see that all windows overlooking the parade route in this slowdown zone had been closed. The man alleged to have killed the President is said to have fired three shots from an open window on the sixth floor of the building directly above the sharp turn at the comer of Houston and Elm streets.
The availability of that “gunman’s lair,” if it was occupied at all, violated basic rules of protection. It overlooked the spot where the car would slow down. The building had many open windows at that time. No Secret Service men were covering that big building, and no Secret Service men were on the roofs of adjacent buildings to observe it or other such lairs. And no military units were in Dallas for that duty."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Feb 2, 2021 11:30:52 GMT -5
Presidential Motorcade Route Through many years there has been discussions of the motorcade route having been changed. One of those alterations relates to the turns the car needed to make from Main to Houston, Houston to Elm. There are indications the parade route was initially set to go straight down Main St. and avoid these turns. Newspapers included maps on the front page indicated as such, but were denied outright by the report. Commission finding.--The motorcade route was decided upon on November 18 and published in the Dallas newspapers on November 19. It was not changed in any way thereafter. The route called for the motorcade to turn off Main Street at Houston, go up to Elm, and then turn left on Elm Street. That is not true, Dallas Morning News published the direct Main St. route on the front page on the 22 nd. The report goes onto misrepresent the wording of the articles it quoted, then left out the DMN map completely. Forest Sorrels and Winston Lawson, of the Secret Service, along with Assistant Chief Charles Batchelor of the Dallas Police built the route. Whether Oswald knew the parade route a few days before from newspapers, there is no proof he would have known if the motorcade would pass directly below him, or at Main St., or the speed at which it would travel. The report only provides half truths to this conclusion. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Whitewash | Harold Weisberg "With regard to the route of the motorcade the Report is on even shakier ground, for it had to presume not only that Oswald knew about it but that he knew the exact route, directly in front of the TSBD. But it could not make a totally unsupported presumption of the route since the critical comments had already been printed questioning anybody's knowledge of the route. To overcome this the Report quotes from the Dallas papers in a less than honest or complete manner (WCR pgs 39-40). Selecting from the 10 issues of the morning and evening papers for November 15-19 could say only that two of the four articles it referred to even mentioned the motorcade touching Elm Street. The contrary version with Elm Street excluded appeared just as frequently. On this basis all anyone could have, if he read the papers, was confusion. But there was one not printed, and this the report avoided like the plague. The entire front page of the morning paper of the day of the assassination was devoted to the President's visit and to the political situation in which it was being made. Buried in the body of one of these stories was some text it did use to connote something sinister on Oswald's part: "On the morning of the Presidents arrival the morning news noted the motorcade would travel through downtown Dallas on to the Stemmons Freeway and reported the motorcade will travel slowly so that the crowds can get a good view of the president and his wife."This planted the idea that Oswald knew all about the slow pace and found assurance of a better target because of it. Of course the report in this quotation does not find it necessary to use the exact language, Main and Stemmons Freeway as the route to the place of the luncheon meeting, with no mention of Elm Street. And what The Report totally suppressed, the major reference to the route on the front page of that issue of that paper. Headed: Presidential Motorcade Route There is a map showing the entire route beginning at the airport. This map above shows the motorcade was not going to leave Main Street from the time it got on it until it reached the Triple Underpass. It showed the motorcade was not going to turn off into Elm Street as it did. And it further showed that the planned route included an illegal turn into the Stemmons Freeway, the turn the Report infers could not be made because it was against regulation."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Feb 2, 2021 11:31:26 GMT -5
Check the WindowsWhen the President came to Dallas in 1963, there were a number of responsibilities dispersed between the Secret Service and local police. No parked cars along the parade route, no access to the motorcade from directly above at bridge crossings, no open windows, limited access to the car at slow turns, are just a few of the duties assigned to the police and local authorities for a safe trip. SSA Winston Lawson and SSA Forest Sorrels are the Federal men in charge of coordinating these actions. Deputy Chief Batchelor was on the Dallas Police end. Lawson was clear in his statement on Dec. 03 rd '63, Batchelor took notes. The train crossing at the triple overpass was an issue discussed with railroad supervisor S.M. HollandSam said there were about 14-18 people on that bridge, he did not know who they were, and only assumed they had been checked out. The most concerning part came when Lawson was asked about coordinating checking windows along the parade route. He told Commission attorney Samuel Stern he did not remember who he instructed on this standard procedure he had done so many times before. This time it resulted in the death of the president, and from when this happened, until testifying April '64, he never once tried to track that down. Instead he gave one of the most disgusting and disturbing answers in all these proceedings. He didn't remember who he told. Like naughty little school children they suddenly don't remember who may have said it, or who they told it to. "SSA Winston Lawson testified that standard Secret Service operating procedure required agents to watch all windows, but he could not recall giving the instructions to watch them."+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Statement of Special Agent Lawson | CE 769"...SAIC Sorrels met Deputy Chief Batchelor, Dallas Police Department and another Command Officer and drove the selected routes in a police car. Deputy Chief Batchelor took notes on police requirements for main intersections, crowd, underpass and overpass policing, railroad crossing, of crowds heavily anticipated areas and details for escorts participation.
We discussed having extra police at turns, necessity of cutting off traffic at certain times as the motorcade progressed. No parking for parked vehicles, particularly in downtown and Trade Mart area streets was discussed. The approximate time and the distance of the airport to the Trade Mart, roping and policing the side parking lot and security of the roof was discussed.
We then drove and made a security check of the remainder of the route from the Trade Mart to the airport, covering the same factors such as railroad crossings, bridges, intersections, escort, singular emphasis on coverage where we might go more slowly. Again the approximate time and distance which I had checked on my own surveys was verified..."++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Winston Lawson | WC TestimonyMr. STERN. What were the instructions that you asked be given to the police who were stationed on overpasses and railroad crossings? Mr. LAWSON. They were requested to keep the people to the sides of the bridge or the overpass so that-or underpass-- so that people viewing from a vantage point like that would not be directly over the President's car so that they could either inadvertently knock something off or drop something on purpose or do some other kind of harm. Mr. STERN. This is all people, not just outside members of the public? Mr. LAWSON. Any citizen that was trying to view the motorcade, they were to be kept from right directly over the President's car, if it was a bridge or an underpass. Mr. McCLOY. It was part of your routine duties when you were going through a street in any city, to look at the windows as well as the crowds? Mr. LAWSON. Yes, sir; and if the President's car slowed to such a point or the crowd ever pressed in to such a point that people are getting too close to the President, the agents always get out and go along the car. Mr. McCLOY. I want to get it clear. In your presence, in the instructions to the police in Dallas, did you tell the police to keep their eye on windows as you went along? Mr. LAWSON. I cannot say definitely that I told the police to watch windows. I usually do. On this particular case I cannot say whether I definitely said that. I believe I did, but I would not swear to the fact that I said watch all the windows.
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Post by Michael Capasse on Feb 8, 2021 11:38:55 GMT -5
Mayor Earle CabellCIA AssetEarle Cabell was elected Mayor of Dallas in May 1961, his Police Dept. oversaw the arrangements for Kennedy's fatal trip to Dallas. Procedures such as traffic control, public viewing areas, parked cars, closed streets, and all windows closed were the responsibility of the local police. SSA Winston Lawson could not remember the name of the Dallas Officer he instructed to watch the windows. The motorcade route decided locally was a violation of standard rules, and included open windows, spectators on bridges, and hairpin turns. The Mayor's brother, Charles Cabell had been the Deputy Director of the CIA. He was forced to resign by Kennedy in Jan. '62. 2017 released documents confirm what researchers had suspected, Earle Cabell was a CIA asset while Mayor of Dallas on 11/22. His close relationship with Jack Crichton is at arm's length with the high ranking Dallas Police officers involved in surveillance of the Russian community in Dallas. Part of that was an intelligence division at the Dallas Police commanded by Lt. Jack Revill. Two men in the lead car of the motorcade, Deputy Police Chief George L. Lumpkin, and Lieutenant Colonel George Whitmeyer were members of Crichton's Army Unit, the 488th Military Intelligence Detachment. Given the presence of these two men in the pilot car, it seems likely that Crichton was in some way involved in the planning of the parade route.
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Post by Michael Capasse on Feb 8, 2021 11:39:18 GMT -5
Jack CrichtonJack Alston Crichton was from Crichton Louisiana, and attended Texas A&M University with Mayor Earle Cabell in 1933. He served in WWII in the Office of Strategic Services, in 1952 Jack began using government connections in Spain to acquire rare oil drilling rights, then began Delta Drilling, operated by Joe Zeppa. In 1956, Crichton started his own Army Intelligence Unit in Dallas, the 488th Military Intelligence Detachment. It is a compelling piece of evidence relating high ranking Dallas Police officers tagged to the case and their connection to 488th, Deputy Chief George Lumpkin / Lt. Jack Revill / Capt. Pat Gannaway / Capt. William Westbrook / Sgt. Gerald Hill and Detective Don Stringfellow. Crichton once bragged there were "about a hundred men in that unit and about forty or fifty of them were from the Dallas Police Department." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Jack Crichton | Spartacus Educational "In the 1950s Jack Crichton became involved with several oil men who began negotiating with Fulgencio Batista, the military dictator of Cuba. A key figure in this was George de Mohrenschildt, who at that time worked for a company called Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust Company (CVOVT) that had been established by William Buckley Sr. Crichton later remarked that "I liked George. He was a nice guy." It is argued by Russ Baker that Crichton's Empire Trust Company played a major role in the financing of the Cuban venture.
In November 1963 Crichton was involved in the arrangements of the visit that President John F. Kennedy made to Dallas. His close friend, Deputy Police Chief George L. Lumpkin, and a fellow member of the the 488th Military Intelligence Detachment, drove the pilot car of Kennedy's motorcade. Also in the car was Lieutenant Colonel George Whitmeyer, commander of all Army Reserve units in East Texas. The pilot car stopped briefly in front of the Texas School Book Depository, where Lumpkin spoke to a policeman controlling traffic at the corner of Houston and Elm.
In the Warren Commission Report it stated that Crichton arranged for a member of the local Russian community, Ilya Mamantov, to work for the Dallas Police Department as a translator for Russian-born Marina Oswald shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy."------------------------------------------------------------- In 1959, Crichton and George HW Bush were donating heavily to Operation 40, a CIA action against Castro. Research author Fabian Escalante said it was originally set up to sabotage foreign governments, then evolved into a team of assassins. Frank Sturgis: "...this assassination group (Operation 40) would upon orders, naturally, assassinate either members of the military or the political parties of the foreign country that you were going to infiltrate, and if necessary some of your own members who were suspected of being foreign agents... We were concentrating strictly in Cuba at that particular time."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Feb 8, 2021 11:39:38 GMT -5
Leroy Fletcher Prouty
Col. L. Fletcher Prouty served for the Joint Chiefs under Pres. Kennedy as Chief of Special Operations. (1962-1963) A retired Colonel in 1964 with the Legion of Merit, and one of the first three Joint Service Commendation Medals. He had written extensively about the problems of security regarding Dallas, and the deficiencies in standard security protocol.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy by L. Fletcher Prouty
"The route chosen by Sorrels and the Dallas police involved a ninety-degree turn from Main Street to Houston Street and an even sharper turn from Houston to Elm Street. These turns required that the President’s car be brought to a very slow speed in a part of town where high buildings dominated the route, making it an extremely dangerous area. Yet, Sorrels told the Warren Commission, this “was the most direct route from there and the most rapid route to the Trade Mart.”
President Kennedy was shot on Elm Street just after his car made that slow turn from Houston. Many have considered this to be a crucial piece of evidence that there was a plot to murder the President. It is considered crucial because the route was selected by the Secret Service, contrary to policy, and because this obvious discrepancy has been ignored by the Warren Report and all other investigations since then.
The conclusion that has been made is that it was part of the plot devised by the murderers; they had to create an ideal ambush site, and the Elm Street comer was it. Furthermore, no matter what route was selected for the presidential motorcade, the Secret Service and its trained military augmentation should have provided airtight protection all the way. This they did not even attempt to do, and this serious omission tends to provide strong evidence of the work of the conspirators. Someone, on the inside, was able to call off these normal precautions.
The commander of an army unit, specially trained in protection and based in nearby San Antonio, Texas, had been told he and his men would not be needed in Dallas. “Another army unit will cover that city,” the commander was told. I have worked with military presidential protection units. I called a member of that army unit later. I was told that the commander “had offered the services of his unit for protection duties for the entire trip through Texas,” that he was “point-blank and categorically refused by the Secret Service,” and that “there were hot words between the agencies. ”
I was told that this army unit, the 316th Field Detachment of the 112th Military Intelligence Group at Fort Sam Houston in the Fourth Army Area, “had records on Lee Harvey Oswald, before November 22.” It “knew Dallas was dangerous,” the commander told my associate in explaining why he had offered his services, despite a call to “stand down.”
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Post by Michael Capasse on Feb 19, 2021 11:19:28 GMT -5
Protective Research ServiceIn 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations declared that, "the Secret Service was deficient in the performance of its duties" at the time of the assassination, and that President Kennedy had not received adequate protection in Dallas. Any explanation of presidential protection in the original '64 investigation was completely inadequate. It was only thru testimony and some documents that certain scraps of clues exist on protection procedures. The later findings of the HSCA, demonstrated key individuals not fully informed in a more thorough investigation. Then in Jan. 1995, The Protective Survey Reports for the fall of '63 were destroyed by the Secret Service just before The Assassinations Review Board requested these important and relevant documents. It is no wonder serious doubts and suspicions of the official conclusions remain. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Protective Research Section | HSCA Report "In making a determination as to whether the advance agents for the Texas trip, as well as local field agents, were duly informed of any potential problems that might occur, a thorough review of the function of the Secret Service Protective Research Section was conducted. The Protective Research Service (PRS) was meant to function both as repository of information about threats to the security of Secret Service protectees and as a provider of such information to agents in all types of assignments. It acquired and made available information received from its own agents and from other sources. (198)
Secret Service procedure required an inquiry to be made of the PRS about one week before a trip was assigned. Kellerman testified that he received the assignment to coordinate the Texas trip on November 17, 1963, and that by custom the check with PRS was made a week ahead of that date." (on or about November 10)----------------------------------------------------- In the first week of November, SSA Winston Lawson, checked PRS and learned there were no active subjects in the Dallas area. On the 13 th he was in Dallas with Special Agents Sorrels and Howlett. No mention of Walker Rallies or Anti Kennedy rhetoric. Four days before a man named Joseph Milteer, told a Miami police informant that the murder of Kennedy was "in the working,"that the best means of killing Kennedy was "from an office building with a high-powered rifle,"The President's trip to Chicago on Nov. 2 nd was suddenly cancelled, then police picked up a suspect with a trunk of guns and ammo. A telex warning of a militant revolutionary assassination plot in Dallas disappeared from a New Orleans FBI Office on or about Nov. 17th. What is remarkable is Roy Kellerman's lack of knowledge of some of these instances, including Houston and especially Chicago and Miami. This would otherwise be standard procedure. Although Kellerman was in charge of the detail; He was an emergency fill-in for Gerald Behn ...and 11 of the most experienced transferred at their own request within 60 days of the assassination. [source: Mark Lane; The Final Word]
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Post by Michael Capasse on Feb 19, 2021 11:19:57 GMT -5
HSCA Report"On November 8, SSA Winston Lawson checked with PRS at the Executive Office Building, learning that there were no active subjects in the Dallas area and that no JFK file existed. (207) Further comparison discloses that by November 13, Lawson was in Dallas and in contact with local Secret Service Agents' Sorrels and John Joe Howlett, with whom he met concerning protective investigations of local anti-JFK suspects. (208) Kellerman also testified about an inquiry in Dallas which was conducted prior to November 22, in order to locate anti-JFK subjects. When asked specifically about right-wing individuals, scurrilous literature, and extremist groups known to be in Dallas, he claimed virtually total ignorance. (209) He insisted that no one told him anything about an investigation of threat information submitted to the Secret Service in Dallas on November 21 and 22 by the FBI. (210) Additionally, Kellerman observed that it was strange that among five cities in one State and despite the anti-Adlai Stevenson demonstration in Dallas on October 1963, no information about suspects was forthcoming and nothing had been given him. (211) The Secret Service final report for the November 21 trip to Houston mentioned two active subjects. (212) Both individuals had made specific threats in Houston. (213) Nevertheless, Kellerman was not questioned about Houston. (214) However, without being questioned about the San Antonio leg of the Texas strip, Kellerman did recall the receipt of PRS information prior to November 21 regarding anti-Presidential picketing that did in fact occur in San Antonio on that date." (215)
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Post by Michael Capasse on Feb 19, 2021 11:20:24 GMT -5
Conduct Consistent | Primary FunctionRegarding the conduct of Secret Service Agent Roy Kellerman, the HSCA noted: "No actions were taken by the agent in the right front seat of the Presidential limousine [Roy Kellerman] to cover the President with his body, although it would have been consistent with Secret Service procedure for him to have done so. The primary function of the agent was to remain at all times in close proximity to the President in the event of such emergencies.[7]"In other words --if he was not in proper proximity to do something, he was not doing his job ! Obvious failures in what would be standard procedure, such as open windows, and spectators on overpasses, were not the only deficiencies. Lack of action by both the driver and lead passenger in the front seat demonstrate an inadequacy at a level from within the planning. Obvious faults in the seating arrangements, and lack of ability to move quickly are factors outside of normal protection protocol. This could've been prevented with the essential communication of standard procedures to all parties involved. The report is also vague on timing. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE SHOT THAT MISSED | WC Report "From the initial findings that (a) one shot passed through the President's neck and then most probably passed through the Governor's body, (b) a subsequent shot penetrated the President's head, (c) no other shot struck any part of the automobile, and (d) three shots were fired, it follows that one shot probably missed the car and its occupants. The evidence is inconclusive as to whether it was the first, second, or third shot which missed."Another important factor is the sequence of hit & miss. Is it: MISS/ HIT/ HIT or HIT/ MISS/ HIT ? It makes a huge difference to the reaction time of these men. A HIT/ MISS/ HIT would have almost 5 seconds to react between the 1st and 3rd shot, The WCR is not at all clear as to which it is - and yet it should be.
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Post by Michael Capasse on Feb 19, 2021 11:20:51 GMT -5
In the Fall Trammell Crow makes the announcement at Dallas Trade Mart "Advance preparations for President Kennedy's visit to Dallas were primarily the responsibility of two Secret Service agents: Special Agent Winston G. Lawson, a member of the White House detail who acted as the advance agent, and Forrest V. Sorrels, special agent in charge of the Dallas office. Both agents were advised of the trip on November 4." [WCR page 29]Plans for the President's trip to Dallas were initiated and set up around the third week of Sept. '63. Governor Connelly confirmed the visit to the White House on Oct 4 th. to include a featured motorcade. It was in these preliminary discussions with JFK Special Asst., Ken O'Donnell that the Trade Mart was chosen. That location was key to bring the motorcade right thru the center of Dallas, then a diversion of turns were somehow added. Those dates are very interesting because, Lee Oswald returned to Dallas from Mexico City on Oct 3 rd. He got the job at TSBD in mid-Oct. and one week before that was taken off an FBI Hot List.An odd series of coincidences in such a short time frame as it related to the trip to Dallas. By November 13 th, SSA Lawson was in Dallas and in contact with local Secret Service Agents' Sorrels and John Joe Howlett, with whom he met concerning protective investigations of local anti-JFK suspects. It was Winston Lawson that could not remember to whom he had given instructions on the Dallas Police force to watch the windows along the parade route. Meanwhile, lead Agent Kellerman insisted that no one told him anything about right-wing individuals, scurrilous literature, and extremist groups known to be in Dallas or an investigation of threat information submitted to the Secret Service in Dallas on November 21 and 22 by the FBI re: Chicago... he was effectively sealed off from the information that he needed to perform with "maximum protective effort".
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