Post by Michael Capasse on Feb 23, 2019 22:23:05 GMT -5
Limo Clean-Up | Secret Service actions re: limo at Parkland Hospital:
From Steve Crisafi…
1) "The Way We Were-1963: The Year Kennedy Was Shot" by Robert MacNeil (1988, Carrol & Graf), p. 197:
"The president's car was there [Parkland Hospital], still at the point where it had pulled up, and they had taken the president
out into that emergency entrance...I remember that the Secret Service men were then STARTING TO MOP UP THE BACK SEAT OF THE BIG
LINCOLN THE PRESIDENT WAS PUT IN, and a few minutes later they started putting the fabric top on it. And when I went over to look
at it a little closer, one of the agents waved me aside and said, 'You can't look.' Later, of course, it seemed ironic that this
wall of protection went up when it of course could do no good..."
2) 21 H 226: Parkland Hospital Orderly Joe L. Richards: asked to get a bucket of water; he complied.
3) 21 H 217: Nurse Shirley Randall: was asked if she "would get someone to come and wash the blood out of the car."
She said that she would, but was so nervous and excited she forgot about it.
4) "Time" Magazine, 11/29/63, p. 24---reporter Hugh Sidey:
"A guard was set up around the Lincoln as Secret Service men got a pail of water and tried to wash the blood from the car."
5) ABC, 11/22/63---reporter Don Gardner:"Outside the hospital, blood had to be wiped from the limousine";
6) "New York Times", 11/23/63, p. 2---reporter Tom Wicker:"...the police were guarding the Presidential car closely.
A bucket of water stood by the car, suggesting that the back seat had been scrubbed out."
7) "The Day Kennedy Was Shot" by Jim Bishop, p. 352 [1992 edition]:
"...the Secret Service detail was sorry that hospital orderlies had sponged it [the limousine] out."
8) "The Death of a President" by William Manchester, p. 180n [1988 edition]:
"An inaccurate [?] story reported that they washed out the back seat with a bucket of water. Actually, this was contemplated."
9) "That Day In Dallas" by Richard Trask (1998), page 35 [based off a 7/10/85 interview with Stoughton; same as page 42 of
Trask's "Pictures of the Pain"]---"[Cecil] Stoughton recalls that a man was washing the seat "with a cloth, and he had a bucket.
There was blood all over the seat, and flower petals and stuff on the floor." On page 37 there is a Stoughton photo with the caption
"A bucket at his feet, an agent [Kinney] is seen leaning into the back seat of the Lincoln cleaning up some of the gore."
[Same photo, without this caption, appears on page 41 of "Pictures Of The Pain"];
10) "Pictures of The Pain" by Richard Trask (1994), pages 377 and 383 [based off a 5/23/85 interview with Thomas Craven, Jr.]
---"The Secret Service cleaning the blood out of the car---the flowers still lying in the back seat---and just chaos until the
police figured out what was happening, and then they started to push us off."
11)-12) 18 H 731-732---SS Agent Sam Kinney; 18 H 763-764---SS Agent George Hickey:
The two agents who put on the bubbletop---with the assistance of a DPD motorcycle officer---at Parkland: they are pictured in the
infamous photos/films of the bucket beside the limousine: "JFK Assassination File" by DPD Chief Jesse Curry, p. 36 (see also p. 34:
same photo, different angle in UPI's "Four Days", p. 25); Texas News newsreel ("Kennedy In Texas" video); WFAA/ ABC video 11/22/63;
Cooper/ Sturges film; "Reasonable Doubt" by Henry Hurt (1985), p. 84;
13) 10/14/98 letter to Vince Palamara from Henry Burroughs--- “The limousines that had carried the Presidential party and
the Vice-Presidential party were askew. An agent with a stainless steel hospital bucket was cleaning up the rear seat of the
President's limousine. Flowers were strewn over rear seats of both limos.”
14) DPD Bobby Joe Dale---"No More Silence" by Larry Sneed (1998), pp. 135-136"…the President was on the gurney beside the car,
and they were wheeling him in. At that time, it was obvious that nobody could have survived a wound like that…Blood and matter was
everywhere inside the car including a bone fragment which was oblong shaped, probably an inch to an inch and a half long by three-quarters
of an inch wide. As I turned it over and looked at it, I determined that it came from some part of the forehead because there was hair on it
which appeared to be near the hairline. There were other fragments around, but that was the largest piece that grabbed my attention.
What stood out in my mind was that there was makeup up to the hairline. Apparently he had used makeup for the cameras to knock down the glare.
It was fairly distinct where it stopped and the wrap of skin took up. Other than that, nobody messed with anything inside the car in any manner,
shape, or form. Nobody said, "Clean this up!" We then put the top up and secured it."
15) 2/26/78 HSCA interview of Kinney—“someone wanted to wash the (Presidential) car [at Parkland]. I said no one touch.”
16) 18 H 801: Hurchel Jacks, Texas Highway Patrolman assigned to drive LBJ’s car in Dallas motorcade---“
We were assigned by the [Secret Service] to prevent any pictures of any kind to be taken of the President’s car or the inside.”
8/31/98 letter to author from Mrs. H.D. (Bobbie) Jacks, widow of Hurchel Jacks (Jacks passed away 12/19/95):
“…he guarded Kennedy’s car to make sure that no photos were taken.” (See also “Encyclopedia of the JFK Assassination,” page 121)
17) CD 3 Exhibits: Milton Wright, Texas Highway Patrolman assigned to drive Mayor Cabell’s car in the Dallas motorcade--
-“…we were instructed to keep the news media away from the car.”
18) DPD James W. Courson & DPD Stavis Ellis---told author Larry Sneed about an incident whereupon a Secret Service
agent destroyed the film of a young boy who took pictures of the limousine at Parkland [“No More Silence”, pages 130 and 148].
From Steve Crisafi…
1) "The Way We Were-1963: The Year Kennedy Was Shot" by Robert MacNeil (1988, Carrol & Graf), p. 197:
"The president's car was there [Parkland Hospital], still at the point where it had pulled up, and they had taken the president
out into that emergency entrance...I remember that the Secret Service men were then STARTING TO MOP UP THE BACK SEAT OF THE BIG
LINCOLN THE PRESIDENT WAS PUT IN, and a few minutes later they started putting the fabric top on it. And when I went over to look
at it a little closer, one of the agents waved me aside and said, 'You can't look.' Later, of course, it seemed ironic that this
wall of protection went up when it of course could do no good..."
2) 21 H 226: Parkland Hospital Orderly Joe L. Richards: asked to get a bucket of water; he complied.
3) 21 H 217: Nurse Shirley Randall: was asked if she "would get someone to come and wash the blood out of the car."
She said that she would, but was so nervous and excited she forgot about it.
4) "Time" Magazine, 11/29/63, p. 24---reporter Hugh Sidey:
"A guard was set up around the Lincoln as Secret Service men got a pail of water and tried to wash the blood from the car."
5) ABC, 11/22/63---reporter Don Gardner:"Outside the hospital, blood had to be wiped from the limousine";
6) "New York Times", 11/23/63, p. 2---reporter Tom Wicker:"...the police were guarding the Presidential car closely.
A bucket of water stood by the car, suggesting that the back seat had been scrubbed out."
7) "The Day Kennedy Was Shot" by Jim Bishop, p. 352 [1992 edition]:
"...the Secret Service detail was sorry that hospital orderlies had sponged it [the limousine] out."
8) "The Death of a President" by William Manchester, p. 180n [1988 edition]:
"An inaccurate [?] story reported that they washed out the back seat with a bucket of water. Actually, this was contemplated."
9) "That Day In Dallas" by Richard Trask (1998), page 35 [based off a 7/10/85 interview with Stoughton; same as page 42 of
Trask's "Pictures of the Pain"]---"[Cecil] Stoughton recalls that a man was washing the seat "with a cloth, and he had a bucket.
There was blood all over the seat, and flower petals and stuff on the floor." On page 37 there is a Stoughton photo with the caption
"A bucket at his feet, an agent [Kinney] is seen leaning into the back seat of the Lincoln cleaning up some of the gore."
[Same photo, without this caption, appears on page 41 of "Pictures Of The Pain"];
10) "Pictures of The Pain" by Richard Trask (1994), pages 377 and 383 [based off a 5/23/85 interview with Thomas Craven, Jr.]
---"The Secret Service cleaning the blood out of the car---the flowers still lying in the back seat---and just chaos until the
police figured out what was happening, and then they started to push us off."
11)-12) 18 H 731-732---SS Agent Sam Kinney; 18 H 763-764---SS Agent George Hickey:
The two agents who put on the bubbletop---with the assistance of a DPD motorcycle officer---at Parkland: they are pictured in the
infamous photos/films of the bucket beside the limousine: "JFK Assassination File" by DPD Chief Jesse Curry, p. 36 (see also p. 34:
same photo, different angle in UPI's "Four Days", p. 25); Texas News newsreel ("Kennedy In Texas" video); WFAA/ ABC video 11/22/63;
Cooper/ Sturges film; "Reasonable Doubt" by Henry Hurt (1985), p. 84;
13) 10/14/98 letter to Vince Palamara from Henry Burroughs--- “The limousines that had carried the Presidential party and
the Vice-Presidential party were askew. An agent with a stainless steel hospital bucket was cleaning up the rear seat of the
President's limousine. Flowers were strewn over rear seats of both limos.”
14) DPD Bobby Joe Dale---"No More Silence" by Larry Sneed (1998), pp. 135-136"…the President was on the gurney beside the car,
and they were wheeling him in. At that time, it was obvious that nobody could have survived a wound like that…Blood and matter was
everywhere inside the car including a bone fragment which was oblong shaped, probably an inch to an inch and a half long by three-quarters
of an inch wide. As I turned it over and looked at it, I determined that it came from some part of the forehead because there was hair on it
which appeared to be near the hairline. There were other fragments around, but that was the largest piece that grabbed my attention.
What stood out in my mind was that there was makeup up to the hairline. Apparently he had used makeup for the cameras to knock down the glare.
It was fairly distinct where it stopped and the wrap of skin took up. Other than that, nobody messed with anything inside the car in any manner,
shape, or form. Nobody said, "Clean this up!" We then put the top up and secured it."
15) 2/26/78 HSCA interview of Kinney—“someone wanted to wash the (Presidential) car [at Parkland]. I said no one touch.”
16) 18 H 801: Hurchel Jacks, Texas Highway Patrolman assigned to drive LBJ’s car in Dallas motorcade---“
We were assigned by the [Secret Service] to prevent any pictures of any kind to be taken of the President’s car or the inside.”
8/31/98 letter to author from Mrs. H.D. (Bobbie) Jacks, widow of Hurchel Jacks (Jacks passed away 12/19/95):
“…he guarded Kennedy’s car to make sure that no photos were taken.” (See also “Encyclopedia of the JFK Assassination,” page 121)
17) CD 3 Exhibits: Milton Wright, Texas Highway Patrolman assigned to drive Mayor Cabell’s car in the Dallas motorcade--
-“…we were instructed to keep the news media away from the car.”
18) DPD James W. Courson & DPD Stavis Ellis---told author Larry Sneed about an incident whereupon a Secret Service
agent destroyed the film of a young boy who took pictures of the limousine at Parkland [“No More Silence”, pages 130 and 148].
