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Agent Ken Wiesman (bottom left), Ned Hall II (buttoning suit), Ernie Olsson (top, left) etc.

Agent Ken Wiesman (bottom left), Ned Hall II (buttoning suit), Ernie Olsson (top, left) Joe Paolella (middle, in doorway), and Larry Newman with JFK 8/5/63, Hyannis

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Vince Palamara: Vince Palamara is the leading Secret Service expert and is an authority on the Kennedy assassination, as well. Vince has written 7 books to critical acclaim: the best-selling SURVIVOR'S GUILT: THE SECRET SERVICE AND THE FAILURE TO PROTECT PRESIDENT KENNEDY, JFK: FROM PARKLAND TO BETHESDA, THE NOT-SO-SECRET SERVICE, WHO'S WHO IN THE SECRET SERVICE, HONEST ANSWERS ABOUT THE MURDER OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY: A NEW LOOK AT THE JFK ASSASSINATION, THE PLOT TO KILL PRESIDENT KENNEDY IN CHICAGO and PRESIDENT KENNEDY SHOULD HAVE SURVIVED DALLAS. Vince has appeared on C-SPAN (including DVD), The History Channel for THE MEN WHO KILLED KENNEDY (VHS/DVD), Newsmax TV, National Geographic Channel (DVD), and on the documentaries A COUP IN CAMELOT (DVD/ BLU RAY), THE ASSASSINATION OF JFK (2021/UK) and THE MAN BEHIND THE SUIT (DVD). Vince has also appeared in over 180 other author's books. Vince's research materials are stored in The National Archives and the JFK Library. E-MAIL: vincebethel@yahoo.com

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JFK's Secret Service agents

THE KENNEDY DETAIL

President Kennedy with Secret Service agents

President Kennedy with Secret Service agents John Campion, Muggsy O'Leary, Assistant Treasury Secretary Bob Wallace, James Rowley, Jerry Behn and Floyd Boring.

JFK and Agent Tony Sherman

President Kennedy says farewell to Secret Service agent Tony Sherman October 1963 [Sherman, whom I corresponded with, was one of the four agents who spoke to Seymour Hersh and ABC television in 1997. Sherman passed away in 2018]

Agent shirt sizes for Christmas gift 1961

Agents attending Black Watch event

Agents attending Black Watch event 11/13/63

Agents on duty 11/22/63 via JFK Library

Agents Gerald Blaine, Sam Sulliman, Paul Burns, Chief James Rowley, and Roy Kellerman. Germany 6/25

Agents Gerald Blaine, Sam Sulliman, Paul Burns, Chief James Rowley, and Roy Kellerman. Germany 6/25/63

Agents Gerald Blaine, Sam Sulliman, Paul Burns, Chief James Rowley, and Roy Kellerman. Germany 6/25

Agents Gerald Blaine, Sam Sulliman, Paul Burns, Chief James Rowley, and Roy Kellerman. Germany 6/25/63

10/17/63: JFK MEETS AGENT BILL STRAUGHN AS SAIC BEHN LOOKS ON

JFK meets Secret Service agent Ed Morey 11/20/63

JFK IN MEXICO 7/1/62

Many flanking motorcycles in a wedge formation; SAIC Behn on trip; military aide in front seat; agents in good number near limo; bubbletop at times; military lining street; live television feed; PHOTOGRAPHERS IN FRONT OF LIMO; buildings guarded

JFK MEXICO 6/29/62-7/1/62

Many flanking motorcycles in a wedge formation; SAIC Behn on trip; military aide in front seat; agents in good number near limo; bubbletop at times; military lining street; live television feed; PHOTOGRAPHERS IN FRONT OF LIMO; buildings guarded

5/22/62 Washington, D.C.

Agent Ed Z Tucker walking limo; SAIC Behn; military aide; press in front of limo

11/18/63, Tampa, FL

Secret Service agent Don Lawton (who also rode on the rear of the limo in Chicago on 3/23/63 and was recalled by Roberts at Love Field; deceased April 2013) and Secret Service agent Chuck Zboril ride on the rear of JFK's limo as Secret Service agent GLEN BENNETT OF PRS scans the crowd from the follow-up car; Godfrey McHugh rides in between Boring and Greer this trip...was asked NOT to ride there by the Secret Service in Dallas

SA Walt Coughlin (smiling)

11/21/63 San Antonio, TX

ASAIC Roy Kellerman

11/21/63 San Antonio, TX

SAIC Behn with JFK

Kennedy leaves the Hotel Utah before giving a speech at Temple Square on September 26, 1963.

Kennedy's motorcade leaves the airport during a visit to Salt Lake City on September 26, 1963.

FUTURE Secret Service Director (1981-1992) John Simpson looks back between police officers

FUTURE Secret Service Director (1981-1992) John Simpson looks back between police officers as ASAIC Floyd Boring talks with JFK...as Sam Kinney looks on from the follow-up car with Powers, O'Donnell, and O'Brien

SA Charlie Kunkel (later to "guard" Marina Oswald) with his daughters

Secret Service/ Treasury Department school 1959

Clint Hill at Secret Service school 1959

Agents Gerald Blaine, Sam Sulliman, Paul Burns, James Rowley, and Roy Kellerman, June 1963

STU STOUT

Stu Stout: decorated WWII veteran; PA state trooper; member of the WHD FDR-LBJ; received an award for protecting President Truman from an assassination attempt (11/1/50); received the Exceptional Civilian Service Award for protecting then-Vice President Nixon in Caracas, Venezuela (5/13/58); Mamie Eisenhower's number one agent; waiting for JFK at the Trade Mart when the assassination took place (Stout was one of 3 Shift Leaders at this time: designated ATSAIC); a charter member of the AFAUSSS in 1969; ended his career as a White House Usher; deceased December 1974; bore a striking resemblance to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover!

JFK Secret Service agents "Muggsy" O'Leary, Stu Stout, Ken Giannoules, and Jerry Blaine

SA Landis makes room for a perplexed Lawton as Roberts, fresh from ordering him back, starts to sit

SA Landis makes room for a perplexed Lawton as Roberts, fresh from ordering him back, starts to sit back down

If the buildings would have been guarded and checked and agents on the back of the car, JFK lives

Agents Landis, Hill, Lilley, Pontius, and others surround JFK's limo (with Jackie)

New Orleans 1962- SAs Kunkel, Warner, and Kellerman run with limo

11/18/63, Tampa, FL

Agents Lawton and Zboril ride the rear of JFK's limo

Agents Stu Knight, Thomas Kelley, Muggsy O'Leary, Clint Hill, and [unknown]

SA Robert Lilley, with whom I spoke to and corresponded with several times, with JFK

President John F. Kennedy with White House Police Pistol Team 5/14/62

10/1/62: saying farewell to the departing ASAIC of the White House Detail, John Campion

10/1/62: saying farewell to the departing ASAIC of the White House Detail, John Campion- Roy Kellerman took his place(Campion moved up to headquarters)

10/1/62:

10/1/62: JFK congratulates the new ASAIC of the White House Secret Service Detail, former ATSAIC (Shift Leader) Roy H. Kellerman (far left), as SAIC Gerald Behn (second from left) looks on with the man Kellerman replaced, John Campion, who was promoted to Aide To The Assistant Chief for Security (ASAIC Floyd Boring not pictured). SA Art Godfrey is promoted to take Kellerman's place as one of the three shift leaders (the other two are ATSAIC Emory Roberts and Stu Stout)

SA Ernie Olsson and parents with JFK 5/22/63

ATSAIC Art Godfrey

SA Ken Wiesman with JFK 10/23/63

JFK Secret Service agents, September 2013:

JFK Secret Service agents, September 2013: Ken Wiesman, Ken Giannoules, Toby Chandler, Chuck Zboril, Clint Hill, Tom Wells, Rad Jones, Walt Coughlin, Bob Kollar (I contacted all but Kollar- couldn't find him)

Secret Service "reunion" at the JFK Library 9/3/13:

Secret Service "reunion" at the JFK Library 9/3/13: Identities, left to right- Ken Weisman, Tom Wells; Toby Chandler; Ken Giannoules; Clint Hill; Chuck Zboril; Walt Coughlin; Radford Jones; Robert Kollar

SA Ron Pontius, ASAIC Floyd Boring, and SA Clint Hill: smoke break

SA Ken Giannoules

SA Joe Paolella, ATSAIC Art Godfrey, and SA Win Lawson

Wade Rodham, HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S uncle

Wade Rodham, HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S uncle and, like Stout, received the Exceptional Civilian Service Award for protecting then-Vice President Nixon in Caracas, Venezuela (5/13/58). Rodham was also the SAIC of the Kennedy residence in Atoka–Middleburg, Virginia; deceased 1983

Kellerman and Hill, 11/21/63

SA Gerald Blaine and Harvey Henderson (both far right)- Henderson was a racist jerk

SA Gerald Blaine and Harvey Henderson (both far right)- Henderson was a racist jerk who greatly bothered fellow agent Abraham Bolden, while Blaine CLAIMS to have been on Abe's temporary shift on the White House Detail in 1961. Abe's book is far superior to Blaine's propaganda.

MARILYN MONROE AND ASAIC FLOYD BORING (the night of the "Happy Birthday Mr. President" performance)

MARILYN MONROE AND ASAIC FLOYD BORING (the night of the "Happy Birthday Mr. President" performance) [extreme blow-up] different blow-up-Agent Bob Lilley (bottom right) looks on

Agents Clint Hill and Ken Giannoules catch a smoke break! 8/5/63, Hyannis

Agents on limo, Ireland, June 1963

Secret Service school, approx 1958- Blaine, Johnsen, Landis, Wells, Lawson, etc

Agents Win Lawson, Jerry Blaine, Art Godfrey, and Dennis Halterman with Gene Autry

Agents "Muggsy" O'Leary, Jerry Blaine, and SAIC Jerry Behn with White House photographer Stou

Agents "Muggsy" O'Leary, Jerry Blaine, and SAIC Jerry Behn with White House photographer Cecil Stoughton

SA's Clint Hill, Roy Kellerman, and Bill Greer

SA Roger Warner: 20 years in Secret Service, 12 years in the CIA

important

1962 book: written with the help of Chief Inspector Michael Torina, whom the author interviewed. Torina WROTE THE SECRET SERVICE MANUAL!

DEC 1963- FORMER JFK SECRET SERVICE CHIEF U.E. BAUGHMAN TELLS THE TRUTH

SA Abraham Bolden, then and now

SA Abraham Bolden (far right) with JFK

The death of an agent BEFORE 11/22/63

1865-2014: only a handful have died in the line of duty...Shipman is one of them

The death of an agent BEFORE 11/22/63

1865-2014: only a handful have died in the line of duty...Shipman is one of them

SA Win Lawson (far left), SAIC Behn and SA Bill Payne with JFK in England 6/30/63

JFK, Chief Rowley, outgoing Chief Baughman 8/1/61

SA Sulliman, ASAIC Boring, SA Blaine, SA Burns, ASAIC Kellerman

AFAUSSS: Former Secret Service Agent Association annual conference 1973--Behn, Rowley, Greer, etc

AFAUSSS: Former Secret Service Agent Association annual conference 1973--Behn, Rowley, Greer, Boring, Bouck, etc. (obtained from the late PRS Agent Frank Stoner)

Boring, Sulliman, Landis, Wells, Hickey, Hill, O'Leary, Meredith, Yeager, etc

Boring, Sulliman, Landis, Wells, Hickey, Hill, O'Leary, Meredith, Yeager, etc [from Mary Gallagher's 1969 book]

SA Paul Burns

7/2/63 Italy: "Kennedy Detail" author Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine and agent David Grant

7/2/63 Italy: "Kennedy Detail" author Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine and felllow agent David Grant (Clint Hill's brother in law) on rear of JFK's car