Boring's Interesting ARRB Interview
By Vince Palamara
With a few notable, albeit largely
overlooked exceptions1, Floyd Boring
was a relatively new name to the research community when
this author wrote a
detailed article about this former #2 Assistant-Special-Agent-In-Charge
(ASAIC) of the White House
Detail (WHD) entitled "Boring Is Interesting" in
the May 1995 "Fourth Decade (based off the author's
9/22/93 & 3/4/94
interviews)."2
In October 1995, this author gave a
presentation at the 2nd annual
Coalition on Political
Assassinations conference and wrote a follow-up article
entitled "More Boring Details" which appeared in
the Nov. 1995 "Fourth
Decade". However, it was from the author's COPA appearance
that the name of
Floyd Boring perked the
attention of Tom Samoluk of the Assassination Records
Review Board (ARRB)---Samoluk contacted the author,
I donated all of my audio
tapes and correspondence from all of my Secret Service/
related interviews,
and the rest is history.3
Nevertheless, there is a twist:
unbeknownst to me until the publication
of a recent book4, I had no idea that the ARRB actually
followed through with
one of my suggestions (although they had followed up on
two others5) and
interviewed Mr. Boring...but they did. On September 18, 1996, a
mere 2 days
after I received the Deed of Gift from the National
Archives regarding my
donations, Dr. Joan Zimmerman and Doug Horne of the ARRB
interviewed Mr.
Boring at
his home in
Boring's
consent. The ARRB interview of
Floyd Boring is in the ARRB's medical
documents and deposiions box
released in July of 1998. It is MD
259. Actually, it’s a
summary of the
interview not a transcript.
"Who? Me? Why?"
The interview begins with Boring exclaiming "I didn't have anything to do
with it, and I don't know anything." Let's replay
that again: "I didn't have
anything to do with it"---what, the assassination or the
"I don't know anything"---he
sure knew enough about the
tell Chief James Rowley via a written report 6 months
after the assassination6
AND in his 1976 JFK Library
Oral History, as well as his two talks with me!
Boring also claimed that
"he had never spoken with anyone at all in the Secret
Service about any aspect of
the Kennedy assassination", another statement that
is very hard to swallow, especially seeing that Boring
founded the Retired
Secret Service Agent's
Association in 1969.7
Pulling
the strings in D.C.
In any event, Horne writes "Contrary
to his disclaimer, the interview
proved to be worthwhile and interesting in a number of
respects." Boring
confirmed that he had never been interviewed by the WC, the
HSCA, or any other
government body in regard to the JFK assassination.8 Boring
claimed that he
was enjoying a day off at his home on 11/22/63 when he
heard the news of the
assassination on the radio.9
This ARRB interview provides startling new
information, and that is that
Floyd Boring confirms that
he was in charge of planning the
also sheds light on the totality of Boring’s relationship
with
planning, especially questionable security matters.
First, author Jim Bishop
revealed this fact in the 1960's in his book "The Day
Kennedy Was Shot":
p. 558 [1992 edition] "...(LBJ) called Secret Service Chief James Rowley.
‘Rufe
did a brave thing today,’ he said. ‘He jumped on me and kept me down. I
want you to do whatever you can, the best that can be done,
for that boy." He
hung up (this was 11/22/63). It had not occurred to him
that Rowley, too, was
lonely. If there was any blame, any official laxness, it
didn't matter that
THE PLANNING OF THE
BORING."
(Emphasis added)
And, to the JFK Library in
the 1970's:
"Part of my job at the White House
during the entire President Kennedy
administration was to be in charge of the advance work."
To the Truman Library in the
1980's:
"I was on all the advance work out of
there. I was assigned all the
advance work, sort of an administrator... I was second in
charge [behind
Special
Agent in Charge Jerry Behn]."
Finally, fellow former agent
Sam Kinney (the driver of the follow-up car on
11/22/63):
In regard to SAIC Gerald A.
"Jerry" Behn's absence from the
leaving ASAIC (#2) Floyd M. Boring to be the agent in charge
of the
trip, Kinney said: "I'll tell you how that happened.
We got, as agents,
federal employees, 30 days a year annual leave, but they
couldn't let us
off...there was only " x " amount of agents
back then in the whole country.
Jerry Behn
probably worked three years without annual leave so he decided to
take some time off...Roy Kellerman
was third in charge-he's qualified. Floyd
Boring stayed home- he could still handle what ever
came about from his
house; there [was] very little correspondence between the
agents in
because Win Lawson had the advance."
Back to the ARRB interview: "Boring
independently recalled that he was
the person who assigned Winston Lawson as the S.S.
advance agent for the
was given that assignment." So much for Boring's
'disclaimer' "I didn't have
anything to do with it, and I don't know anything."
A curious limousine
inspection
Boring initially claimed that his
activities on 11/22/63 "were limited to
going directly from his home to Andrews AFB to meet the
(new)
President11---and that he
escorted President Johnson on his helicopter from
Andrews to the White House,
after which he went directly home"; the latter
part of this statement, that Boring went directly home,
is NOT backed up by
the documentary record, nor by Boring's own admitted
actions.
Horne wrote: "When asked who directed
him to go to Andrews AFB, Mr.
Boring said that nobody
asked him to go there---that he just did it on his
own...
In about the middle of the interview, Mr.
Boring remembered that he and
Mr. [Paul J.] Paterni had inspected the President's limousine and the
Secret
Service follow-up car, but
was unsure whether they had inspected them the
night President Johnson returned to
(11/23/63)." Actually,
Boring and Paterni inspected the limo from 10:10 p.m.
the night of 11/22/63 until 12:01 a.m., one minute into
11/23/63 (the FBI
inspected the limo afterwards, starting at 1:00 a.m.).12
Furthermore, "When asked who directed
he and Paterni to search the
automobiles, he said that no one had; he said he thought it
might be a good
idea and had suggested it himself to Paterni,
and that they undertook this
search as independent action on their own initiative."
Interestingly, they
also beat Chief Rowley and ASAIC Kellerman
to the punch, as the record
indicates that they had also thought of the idea while at
AAFB.13 (Just to be
clear, Rowley and Kellerman did
not inspect the limousine at all.)
Continuing on: "After independently recalling
that they had searched the
cars, Mr. Boring said that he had discovered a piece of
skull bone with brain
attached14 in the rear of the follow-up car (the black Cadillac
convertible
called the "Queen Mary"), in the footwell just in front of the back seat
bench. He said during follow-up questioning that the
dimensions of this skull
bone-brain fragment were approximately 1" X 2". He
said that he never picked
it up or touched it himself, but that he simply pointed
it out to Mr. Paterni
(Mr. Paterni
was Deputy Chief of the Secret Service)15 He said he
did not
write a report about this, and he did not know whether Mr.
Paterni had written
a report or not."16
What makes Boring's recollections of the
limo inspection particularly
troublesome is the fact that he "made very clear during the
[ARRB] interview
that this fragment was in the rear of the follow-up car,
not in the rear seat
of the presidential limousine.
This would be the only known instance of
anyone claiming to have found
JFK bone fragments in the
Secret Service follow-up car.
Initially, ARRB staff members Zimmerman
and Horne had misunderstood Mr.
Boring to mean that the
bone-brain fragment was in the rear seat of the
President's limousine, and
Mr. Boring took specific pains to correct their
misunderstanding during follow-on discussion of this matter.
However, Boring called Horne the next day
to place a correction (and,
thus, a retraction) on the record: he now felt that the
skull bone-and-brain
fragment he saw "must have been in the back seat of the
President's limousine,
and not the follow-up car. He said that his stroke may
perhaps have had
something to do with his error." (Boring had a stroke in
the early 90's,
1991-1992ish).
During his inspection of the limousine
with Paterni Boring found bullet
fragments as well.
These bullet fragments were turned over to Orrin Bartlett,
the FBI's liaison officer with the Secret Service (3H p.
435). Bartlet
turned
them over to Robert Frazier in person in the FBI
lab. These bullet fragments
became CE 567 and CE 569. (See - CD 80;
(Kellerman);
5 H p. 67(Frazier); 7 HSCA p. 389;)
Boring’s stroke may also explain why
Boring now has NO recollection of
finding any bullet fragments at all in the limousine (only
the skull
fragment), and also may explain why he could not remember,
one way or the
other, the condition of the limousine's windshield and
chrome strip.17
op-ed about his colleagues
The ARRB interview states, "When
shown the HSCA summary of its interview
with
that there may have been a Secret Service conspiracy18,
Mr. Boring expressed
surprise at those sentiments and said he had never heard that
opinion
expressed by SAIC
association as Pennsylvania State Troopers.
“When shown the HSCA interview summary
with
19, he said he would not
agree with that statement, and expressed the opinion
that SA Aragon may not have known what he was talking
about.
“Mr. Boring was asked to read and comment
on several pages of the HSCA
6/1/77 interview
transcript20 with former graduate student James Gouchenaur,
in which Gochenaur recounted
a very long conversation he reportedly had with
SA Elmer
Moore in 1970. Mr. Boring examined the portions of the
transcript in
which Gouchenaur quoted
things away to the Russians; that it was a shame people had
to die, but maybe
it was a good thing; that the Secret Service personnel
had to go along with
the way the assassination was being investigated
("I did everything I was
told, we all did everything we were told, or we'd get our
heads cut off"); and
that he felt remorse for the way he (Moore) had badgered
Dr. Perry into
changing his testimony to the effect that there was not, after
all, an
entrance wound in the front of the president's neck. Mr. Boring said that it
would be just like SA Moore to give such a lengthy
interview, but that he
doubted very much whether agent Moore had really said those
things."
In addition, "Mr. Boring was shown
the HSCA interview of SA [George]
Hickey, and was asked to
read the portion wherein Mr. Hickey stated that Mr.
Boring came down to the
garage and told him statements were being collected in
the White House, and directed (or suggested) that he go
and write down his
statement.21 His response to this was that he did not remember
even seeing SA
Hickey in the White House
garage, nor did he remember seeing SA Kinney, or any
other Secret Service agents, or FBI agents, during the
automobile searches
[plural].
He did have some vague recollection of White House police being
there."22
Security Striping measure #1
Agents off the limo: a JFK
order or an anecdote?
Evidence against Mr. Boring
“not have anything to do with it”, meaning
his involvement in
indirectly through subordinates personally selected by him of
what can only be
called security stripping measures. The first of which
involves removing
agents from the rear of the limousine.
"Mr. Boring was asked to read pages
136-137 of Clint Hill's
Commission testimony [Vol.
2], in which Clint Hill recounted that Floyd Boring
had told him just days prior to the assassination that
during the President's
rear steps of the limousine, and that Boring had also so
informed other agents
of the White House detail, and that as a result, agents
in
Clint Hill, on brief occasions)
did not ride on the rear steps of the
limousine.
MR BORING AFFIRMED THAT HE DID MAKE THESE
STATEMENTS TO CLINT HILL, BUT
STATED THAT HE WAS NOT
RELAYING A POLICY CHANGE, BUT RATHER SIMPLY TELLING
AN
ANECDOTE ABOUT THE
PRESIDENT'S KINDNESS AND CONSIDERATION IN
WANTING AGENTS TO HAVE TO
RIDE ON THE REAR OF THE
WAS NOT
NECESSARY TO DO SO BECAUSE OF A LACK OF CROWDS ALONG THE STREET."
(Emphasis added).
I find this admission startling, especially
because the one agent who
decided to ride on the rear of the limousine in
least 4 different occasions--- was none other than CLINT
HILL himself!
This also does not address what the agents
were to do when the crowds
were heavier, or even what exactly constituted a
"crowd", as AGENTS DID RIDE
ON THE REAR STEPS OF THE
LIMOUSINE IN
(agents
Donald J. Lawton, Andrew E. Berger,
& Charles T. Zboril, to be
exact)23!
Furthermore, Clint Hill's written report
(as well as his testimony) sure
conveys a more strict approach than one stemming from an
alleged, kind
anecdote; in fact, Hill twice stated he DID NOT RECALL who
the agent was who
told him, and the other agents, not to ride on the rear
of the limousine:
"I, Special Agent Clinton J. Hill,
never personally was requested by
President John F. Kennedy
not to ride on the rear of the Presidential
automobile. I DID RECEIVE INFORMATION PASSED VERBALLY FROM THE
ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICES OF THE WHITE HOUSE
DETAIL OF THE SECRET SERVICE TO AGENTS ASSIGNED
TO
THAT DETAIL THAT PRESIDENT
KENNEDY HAD MADE SUCH REQUESTS. I DO NOT KNOW
FROM
WHOM I RECEIVED THIS
INFORMATION. It was general knowledge on the White House
Detail, however, that
President Kennedy has asked Special Agent in Charge
Gerald A. Behn, not to have Special Agents ride on the rear of the
Presidential Automobile [Behn denied to me that President Kennedy made such a
request. Films and
photos from 1963 appear to confirm Behn’s story that
JFK
never made such a request]. NO WRITTEN INSTRUCTIONS
REGARDING THIS WERE EVER
DISTRIBUTED.
Hill continues, "I was informed that
on November 18, 1963, in
Charge Floyd M. Boring that
Special Agents remove themselves from the rear of
the Presidential automobile. I WAS NOT ON THIS SPECIFIC
TRIP WITH THE WHITE
HOUSE DETAIL AND RECEIVED
THIS INFORMATION AFTER THE PRESIDENT'S RETURN TO
NOVEMBER
21, 1963
[NOTE TIME FRAME!]. I DO NOT KNOW
SPECIFICALLY WHO ADVISED ME OF THIS
REQUEST BY THE PRESIDENT.
So, what do we have exactly? Something allegedly happens on the
trip, or is attributed to the
one on the trip actually left the bumper or recalls
being told to leave and
stay off the bumper per a presidential request. The Secret Service agents to
whom this order would apply to deny this happened. This story does exist
though, and spreads through word of mouth, by Boring to
agents who were not
involved in the
policy to be implemented on the next trip, which would be
Look at what Hill writes “I DID RECEIVE
INFORMATION PASSED VERBALLY FROM
THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES
OF THE WHITE HOUSE DETAIL OF THE SECRET SERVICE
TO
AGENTS ASSIGNED TO THAT
DETAIL THAT PRESIDENT KENNEDY HAD MADE SUCH
REQUESTS.
Well, who’s in this administrative office
of the Secret Service’s White
House
Detail? Boring. The “general
knowledge” Hill speaks of would more
appropriately be coming from Boring, not Behn. Behn denied it
outright.
Boring was on the
from.
Boring’s non-denial denial, that it was
only an anecdote denoting the
kindness of JFK is refuted by Boring himself when
Floyd Boring categorically denied what William
Manchester reports on pp.
37-38 of his book [1988
edition]: "Kennedy grew weary of seeing bodyguards
roosting behind him every time he turned around, and in
[1963], just four days
before his death, he dryly asked Agent Floyd Boring to
'keep
those Ivy League charlatans off the back of the car.' Boring wasn't
offended. There had been no animosity in the remark."
Boring told me "I never told him
that".
As far as the merit of the quote, Boring
told me: "No, no, no-that's not
true." When asked, point blank, if JFK had ever
ordered the agents off the
rear of the limousine, including in
that's not true. That's not true. He was a very nice man; he never interfered
with us at all."
In regard to
tell them anything...He just- I looked at the back of the
car and I seen these
fellahs (ZBoril and
return to the (follow-up) car. He (JFK) was a very
easy-going guy; he didn't
interfere with our actions at all".
Boring confirmed what he had previously
told me on 9/22/93 and 3/4/94
when he wrote that "President Kennedy was a very
congenial man knowing most
agents by their first name. He was very cooperative with
the Secret Service,
and well liked and admired by all of us.[letter received
11/22/97]"
So, Boring would have you believe it was
just routine, as agents would
sometimes hop back and forth from the rear of the limousine to
the Secret
Service follow
up car. However, again Boring does not
really deny the story
as much as he puts a spin on it. All Boring said was he did not speak with
cannot check if Boring did speak with
withheld from the public.
So, while it is indeed being spread, as
policy, Boring can say afterwards
it was only a harmless retelling of an anecdote. And he can deny it by saying
he never spoke with
any truth to the story, and the only one not to totally
deny it. Remember,
Boring is admitting it came
from him, and not JFK. Everyone else totally
denies it, it never came from JFK, not even as an anecdotal
story.
Boring’s story, whether actual or not,
whether anecdotal or not
somehow grows after the
policy, though never written down, for the preparation for
the
something which had never occurred before.
Oddly, if this is new policy, it goes into
practice only in
Clint Hill does recall
hearing it, as policy, though he can’t recall from whom
he heard it according to his written report. However,
he named none other than Floyd Boring
as THE source during his Warren Commission testimony
mentioned above" or words to
that effect. [It's important to note that Hill was twice
coy about naming his source in his WRITTEN
statement, yet named the source---Boring---under oath to Arlen
Specter
of the WC]. Hill does disobey it 4 times but that does
not necessarily mean
the policy did not exist. He may have felt he should be obeying it as
he does
not stay on the rear bumper for any appreciable lenght of time. And the other
agents do stay on the follow up car.
Interestingly, in viewing slow motion
video footage of the Love Field
departure [WFAA/ABC TV video], one can see agent Henry J. Rybka [25H787]
attempt to get on the back of the limousine only to be
recalled by none other
than Emory P. Roberts, who rises in his seat in the
follow-up car and hand-
gestures Rybka to cease and desist.
Giving Roberts the benefit of the doubt,
it a ppears that Borings' orders
to not have any agents ride on the back of
the limousine were well taken.
After the assassination there are reports
that JFK had previously made
such requests prior to the
these statements to be false, as well as the lack of any
record or document to
that effect.
The truth - JFK never
ordered Secret Service agents off the limo
Gerald A. Behn,
SAIC of WHD "I don't remember Kennedy ever saying that he
didn't want anybody on the back of his car. I think if you
watch the newsreel
pictures and whatnot [sic] you'll find agents on there from
time to time". As
just one of many examples, Behn
cited the June 1963 trip to
many others.)24;
Arthur L. Godfrey, ATSAIC of WHD:
"That's a bunch of baloney; that's not
true. He never ordered us to do anything. He was a very
nice
man...cooperative". Asked if whether Aide Ken
O'Donnell did any similar
ordering, Godfrey said emphatically "he did not order
anyone around". As just
one example, Godfrey was on the
rear of the limousine- one of the agents was none other
than Winston G. Lawson
25. In a letter dated
11/24/97, Godfrey stated the following: "All I can speak
for is myself. When I was working [with] President
Kennedy he never ask[ed] me
to have my shift leave the limo when we [were] working
it," thus confirming
what he had also told me telephonically on two prior
occasions;
David F. Powers: "
Unless they [the Secret Service] were 'running' along
beside the limo, the Secret Service rode in a car behind
the President, so,
no, they never had to be told to 'get off' the
limo."26
Samuel A. Kinney, WHD: "That is
absolutely, positively false...no, no,
no, he had nothing to do with that (ordering agents off
the rear of the
limo)...No, never-the agents say, 'O.K., men, fall back
on your
posts'...President Kennedy was one of the easiest
presidents to ever protect;
Harry S. Truman was a jewel
just like John F. Kennedy was...99% of the agents
would agree...(JFK) was one of the best presidents ever to
control-he trusted
every one of us".
In regard to the infamous quote from
William Manchester, Kinney said,
"That is false. I
talked to William Manchester; he called me on the book
[sic]...for
the record of history that is false - Kennedy never ordered us to
do anything. I am aware of what is being said but that
is false".
Finally, just to nail down this issue, I
asked Kinney if an exception was
made on 11/22/63: "Not this particular time, no. Not
in this case". Kinney
also told me that JFK had nothing to do with the limiting
of motorcycles
during motorcades, and that Ken O'Donnell did not interfere
with the agents,
"Nobody ordered anyone
around"27;
Robert E. Lilley, WHD: "Oh, I'm sure
he didn't. He was very cooperative
with us once he became President. He was extremely cooperative. Basically,
'whatever
you guys want is the way it will be'."
Lilley also refuted the
JFK in
limousine all the way to the Presidential palace" at
speeds reaching "50 miles
per hour" (with the bubble-top on [which Lilley
believed "might deflect a
bullet."])28;
Donald J. Lawton: When I told
that JFK never ordered the agents off the rear of the
limousine, he said "It's
the way Sam said, yes". (Meaning he agress with Kinney, it happened the way
Kinney said.)
Asked to explain how he dismounted the
rear of the limousine in
said, " I didn't hear the President say it, no. The
word was relayed to us-
you know, 'come back to the follow-up car'".
According to
Asked about the tragedy in
was our job to protect the President. You still have
regrets, remorse. Who
knows, IF THEY HAD LEFT GUYS ON THE BACK OF THE CAR...you
can hindsight
yourself to death" (emphasis added).
And, from his letter to the author dated
11/22/97: "Since I am currently
employed by the Secret Service I do not believe it
appropriate that I comment
on former or current protectees
of the Service. If you spoke with Bob Lilley
as you stated then you can take whatever information he
passed on to you as
gospel.29;
Robert I. Bouck,
SAIC of PRS: confirmed that having agents on the back of
the limousine depended on factors independent of any alleged
presidential
"requests"30;
Rufus W. Youngblood, ASAIC of LBJ Detail:
Youngblood confirmed that
"there
was not a standing order" from JFK to restrict agents from the back of
the limousine - the agents had "assigned posts and
positions" on the back of
the President's car.
On 2/8/94, Youngblood added: "President Kennedy wasn't a
hard ass...he never said anything like that. As a
historian, he (
flunked the course---don't read
Abraham W. Bolden, Sr., WHD/ Chicago
office: In reference to Kennedy's
alleged "requests", Mr. Bolden told the author
that he "didn't hear anything
about that...I never believed that Kennedy said
that"32;
John Norris, Uniformed Division of the
Secret Service: Norris also joined
his colleagues in refuting the notion that JFK ordered
the agents off the rear
of the limo33;
Maurice G. Martineau,
SAIC of
colleagues in refuting the
the rear of the car.34 Martineau
said this to me in two telephonic interviews.
Cecil Stoughton, WH photographer: "I
did see a lot of the activity
surrounding the various trips of the President, and in many
cases I did see
the agents in question riding on the rear of the
President's car. In fact, I
have ridden there a number of times myself during
trips...I would jump on the
step on the rear of the [
photos while hanging on with one hand...in
for the [alleged] edict of not riding there by order of
the President- I can't
give you any proof of first hand knowledge."
matters"(!).
In a later letter,
statements: "I would just jump on and off [the limo]
quickly- no routine, and
Jackie had no further
remarks to me."35;
It should be explained that according to
35], Jackie had told him to
stay close to the limo in July 1963, and he did up
to and including the
11/21/63 (there are photos
that
day, as well). Then, for some unknown reason,
position further away from JFK.
Martin E. Underwood, DNC advance man: The
advance man confirmed to this
author that JFK did not restrict agents from riding on the
Presidential
limousine (He could not believe that Mr. Behn
wrote his report with JFK's
alleged "desires", citing Clint Hill's actions on
11/22/63 as just one of
"many
times" that agents were posted on the back of the JFK limousine)36;
Press Secretary Pierre Salinger: JFK had a
good relationship with the
Secret Service and, more
importantly, did NOT argue with their security
measures.37
Jerry D. Kivett,
WHD: "[JFK] was beloved by those agents on the detail
and I never heard anyone say that he was difficult to protect."38;
June Kellerman,
the widow of Roy H. Kellerman, ASAIC WHD: "
say that JFK was difficult to protect."39;
Jean Brownell Behn,
widow of the late Gerald A. Behn, SAIC WHD (see
above): Jerry did not like William Manchester's book
"The Death of a
President" and
confirmed that she also did not believe that JFK had ever
conveyed to Jerry the idea of having the agents not ride on
the rear of the
limousine. In a follow-up letter she stated that "The
only thing I can tell
you is that Jerry always said 'Don't believe anything
you hear and only half
of what you read'40;
Chief James J. Rowley: "No President
will tell the Secret Service what
they can or cannot do."41
Charles T. Zboril,
WHD,
answer, one way or
the other, : "Well, Don Lawton and I are just sub-notes
[sic]
because somebody else testified in behalf of us about what happened in
not on the rear of the car during the assassination.
When I asked him if it was true that JFK
had really ordered the agents
off the limousine four days before
true, Zboril got emotional:
"WHERE DID YOU READ THAT? I...If-if you read it in
the Warren Report, that's what happened...DO YOU WANT ME
COMMENTING
OFFICIALLY? I'm speaking to someone I don't know... I gave you
more than I
would give someone else". Zboril
then gave me his address and requested that I
send him anything on this matter and he promised to
respond to me...he never
did.
Jim Bishop sums up the situation best:
"no one wanted to weigh the
possibilities that, IF A SECRET SERVICE MAN HAD BEEN ON THE LEFT [OR RIGHT]
REAR BUMPER GOING DOWN ELM
STREET, it would have been difficult to hit
President Kennedy (emphasis
added)42"
FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover to President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1:40 p.m.,
11/29/63: "You see, there was no Secret Service man standing on the back of
the car. Usually the presidential car in the past has
had steps on the back,
next to the bumpers, and there's usually been one [agent]
on either side
standing on these steps...[ellipsis in text]...Whether the
President asked
that that not be done, we don't know."43
In a letter dated 4/3/64, WC general
counsel J. Lee Rankin had written to
Secret Service Chief James
J. Rowley "requesting further information
concerning expressions by President Kennedy regarding the
placement of Secret
Service agents on or near
the car during the motorcade", obviously meaning THE
motorcade of 11/22/63.44 Since JFK was conveniently dead and
there was nothing
in the record to indicate that Kennedy had said
anything that morning, Rowley
mailed back five reports on 4/22/64 to try to
"satisfy" the WC, who obviously
were not satisfied by the testimonies of Greer, Kellerman, Hill, or Youngblood
on March 9, 1964.45
These five reports- by agents Boring[dated 4/8/64]46, Roberts [dated
4/10/64]47, Ready [dated
4/11/64]48, Behn [dated 4/16/64]49 and Hill
[undated]50-
make much of JFK's alleged comments to agent Boring
on 11/18/63
about getting the agents who were riding on the rear of
the limo the hell off
of there, as well as "general common
knowledge" that this had happened before,
even before the
However, as I uncovered during the
interviews for my manuscript, and
which has been demonstrated so far, this was totally
fabricated.51 Each and
every one of these reports is a lie, or used for a lie.
Boring already dodgey on
The ARRB's
Doug Horne writes: "Mr. Boring remembered preparing his written
statement, and verified that the copy shown to him was indeed
his statement.
"Although primarily
about the 11/18/63
another time---the July 1963
request to not have the agents ride on the rear of the
limousine.”
However, as with the
limousine, as recently discovered film from the JFK Library,
obtained through
my efforts, reveals ("JFK's
Trip to
JFK
Library. This footage was shown
at COPA 1996).
Also, compare Boring’s statement here with
Arthur L. Godfrey, ATSAIC of
WHD statements on the
Roberts' report is merely a confirmation
of hearing BORING over the radio
in the
limousine-it says nothing of JFK's
alleged "desires".
Now deceased, Roberts was the commander of
the 7 other agents who rode in
the follow-up car with him in
the follow-up car, Samuel A. Kinney, ORDERED THE AGENTS
NOT TO MOVE AFTER THE
FIRST SHOT SOUNDED (author's
interviews with Sam Kinney, 3/5/94 and 4/15/94)!
Roberts had recognized the
first shot as a RIFLE blast (18H p.734-735), yet
recalled agent John D. "Jack" Ready who had begun
to move in JFK's direction.
Ready was the agent who was
ASSIGNED to JFK's side of the limousine (as Clint
Hill was assigned to
Jackie's side[18H749-750]).
Roberts came to Ready's
rescue in another report: "SA Ready would have
done the same thing (as Agent Hill did) if motorcycle was
not at President's
corner of car"(!) [18 H 738]---- Strange, but this
posed no problem at all for
Agent Don Lawton on November
18, 1963, in
Rybka,
This begs the question, were Rybka and
supposed to have rode the rear of the limousine?
Ready mentions the 11/18/63
THERE! “Although I was not
in
was known to me that President Kennedy requested,
through Assistant Special
Agent in Charge Floyd M.
Boring, that two agents be removed from the rear
steps of the presidential vehicle during a motorcade in
that city.” (emphasis
added)
There is reason to believe Behn did not even write his report as it has a
STAMPED (stamp pad)
signature (similar to other reports contained in the WC
volumes and elsewhere; not hand-written). When one considers
the fact that a
subordinate agent from the
Secret Service document as
if he were the SAIC (in this case,John
Marshall),
the possibility that someone else merely stamped this
type-written report with
Behn's stamp pad signature is certainly not above the realm
of possibility.
(Behn's
office was shared with ASAIC's Kellerman
and Boring).
And Hill’s report is undated.
Behn’s, Boring’s,
and Hill’s are not even on any Secret Service or
Treasury Dept. stationary,
just blank sheets of paper.
All are supposedly evidence of JFK
expressing his desire to keep Secret
Service
agents off the limousine in
And, again, THERE IS NOTHING ABOUT WHAT
JFK SAID OR "REQUESTED" ON
NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THE
CRITICAL DAY IN QUESTION!
Security Stripping Measure
#2
Noisy motorcycles reduced
and placed rearward for conversational purposes?
The ARRB interview of Boring goes on to
say, "When asked whether the
Secret Service had any
standard procedures regarding size and placement of
motorcycle escort for the President's limousine in motorcades,
Boring said to
the ARRB that there was no standard protocol for this,
since local resources
were different from site to site. He then stated that the
Secret Service would
place motorcycles wherever the local authorities would
want them, and that the
Secret Service would not try
to tell local law enforcement authorities where
to place motorcycles around the limousine---he said
that if the Secret Service
had tried to do such a thing, that the local authorities
would not have
listened anyway. He said that in regard to matters like this,
local
authorities wouldn't take orders from the Secret Service, but
instead had to
be coaxed. He also stated that placing motorcycles
alongside the limousine
would not have been a good idea, since they were so noisy
that the President
would not have been able to have a conversation with the
car's occupants."
Now, for the real story:
On November 20th, with no secret service
men present, it was agreed that
eighteen motorcycles would be used, some positioned along
side the limousine
(similar
to the plan used in the prior
and
There was another meeting on November 21,
1963 in which those plans were
changed.51
Captain Perdue Lawrence of the Dallas
Police testified to the
Commission that 2 days before
the assassination he met with Chief Lunday and
Chief Batchelor and
discussed the motorcycple plans for the
motorcade. “I was
told that there would be these lead motorcycle officers,
and that we would
also have these other officers alongside the President's
car and the Vice
President's car, and some of
the others that would be in the motorcade, and
approximately how many officers would be needed for the escort,
and at that
time I had prepared a list of 18 solo motorcycle
officers, this included three
solo sergeants.
“I was also instructed that about this
motorcade--that when it reached
Stemmons Expressway, Chief Batchelor told me that he wanted a
solo motorcycle
officer in each traffic lane, each of the five traffic lanes
waiting for the
motorcade, so that no vehicles, on Stemmons
Expressway would pass the
motorcade at all and he wanted these solo motorcycle officers
to pull away
from the escort and get up there on Stemmons
Freeway and block the traffic,
and some of these officers, he stated, would pull past
the Presidential car.”
Then on November 21, 1963, a change
occurs. “This was the first time
that I had attended any security meeting at all in
regards to this motorcade.
At approximately 5 p.m. I
was told to report to the conference room on the
third floor, and when I arrived at the conference room the
deputy chiefs were
in there, there were members of the Secret Service--Mr.
Sorrels, Captain
Gannaway, Captain Souter of radio
patrol, and Capt. Glen King, deputy chiefs,
assistant chiefs, and Chief Curry, and one gentleman, who I
assume was in
charge of the security for the Secret Service. This was the
first time I had
attended any conferences in regard to the security of this
escort, and I
listened in on most of the discussion and I heard one of the
Secret Service
men say that President Kennedy did not desire any
motorcycle officer directly
on each side of him, between him and the crowd, but he
would want the officers
to the rear. This conversation I overheard as Chief Batchelor
was using a
blackboard showing how he planned to handle this--how plans had
been made to
cover the escort.”52
Remember, according to Boring, “the Secret Service would not try to tell
local law enforcement authorities where to place motorcycles
around the
limousine-”
Secret Service Agent David Grant, who
would have known of Kennedy's
alleged "desires" via Boring (Grant was an advance
man for the
(who
received his assignment from Boring). 53
DPD Captain Perdue Lawrence testified that
the Secret Service told them
to stay to the rear on the evening of 11/21/63.54
DPD Asst. Chief Charles Batchelor wrote in
his report that "[DPD Captain
Perdue]
of the motorcade immediately to the rear of the
President's vehicle [as borne
out by his 11/21/63 report]. MR. LAWSON Of THE SECRET SERVICE STATED THAT THIS
WAS TOO MANY, that HE
thought two (2) motorcycles on either side would be
sufficient, about even with the rear fender of the President's
car. (emphasis
added)"55
DPD Captain Perdue Lawrence's report
regarding motorcycle distribution
DATED NOVEMBER 21, 1963, the
day before the assassination [handwritten
comments from 7/24/64]stated “In addition to DPD motorcycles
officers B.W.
Hargis and B.J. Martin, H.B.
MCLAIN56 AND J.W. COURSON WERE SLATED TO RIDE ON
THE LEFT
SIDE OF JFK'S LIMOUSINE. Also, in
addition to DPD motorcycle officers
D.L. Jackson and J. Chaney,
THE RIGHT SIDE OF JFK'S
LIMOUSINE!57
If that weren't enough,
both DPD motorcycle officer's M.L. Baker and B.J.
Martin testified to the
Warren Commission (and stated in private interviews)
that there was a last-minute change made at Love Field:
they were told to STAY
TO THE
REAR OF THE LIMOUSINE.
Marion Baker told the Commission that he
was told on November 22, 1963 at
about 8:00 a.m., “My partner and I, we received
instructions to ride right
beside the President's car.” However, when he got to Love Field “When we
got
to the airport, our sergeant instructed me that there
wouldn't be anybody
riding beside the President's car.”58 Baker was advised of this 5 or 10
minutes before the motorcade left the airport.
Martin told the Commission, “They
[plural=Secret Service]instructed us
that they didn't want anyone riding past the President's
car and that we were
to ride to the rear, to the rear of his car, about the
rear bumper.”59
Martin told Jean Hill, “.they told us out
at Love Field right after
Kennedy's plane
landed...Well, while Kennedy was busy shaking hands with all
the wellwishers at the
airport, Johnson's Secret Service people came over to
the motorcycle cops and gave us a bunch of
instructions...They also ordered us
into the damdest escort
formation I've ever seen. Ordinarily, you bracket the
car with four motorcycles, one on each fender. But this
time, they told the
four of us [Martin, Hargis, Chaney, & Jackson]
assigned to the President's car
there'd be no forward escorts. We were to stay well to the
back and not let
ourselves get ahead of the car's rear wheels under any
circumstances. I'd
never heard of a formation like that, much less ridden in
one, but they said
they wanted to let the crowds have an unrestricted view
of the president.
Well, I guess somebody got
an 'unrestricted view' of him, all right."60
Oddly, when these gentlemen were
interviewed by the HSCA the story
changes to it was JFK who wanted no motorcycles alongside
the car, and not the
Secret Service.61 One wonders whether they changed their
stories, or if they
had their stories changed for them by the HSCA. We now
know the HSCA lied
about the
head wound. It
would not be a stretch of the imagination if it turns out the
HSCA lied by changing what
Baker and Martin had to say about no motorcycle
placement alongside the presidential limousine.
DPD Chief Curry testified to the WC62
about the matter---included in the
actual transcript is a bizarre error involving a clumsy
edit (in italics):
Mr. Curry. In the planning of this
motorcade, we had had more motorcycles
lined up to be with the President's car, but the Secret
Service didn't want
that many.
Mr. Rankin. Did they tell you why?
Mr. Curry. We actually had two on each
side but we wanted four on each
side and they asked us to drop out some of them and back
down the motorcade,
along the motorcade, which we did.
Mr. Rankin. How many motorcycles did you
have?
Mr. Curry. I think we had four on each
side of him.
Mr. Rankin. How many did you want to have?
Mr. Curry. We actually had two on each
side side but we wanted four on
each side and they asked us to drop out some of them and
back down the
motorcade, along the motorcade, which we did.
Mr. Rankin. So that you
in fact only had two on each side of his car?
Mr. Curry. Two on each side and they asked
them to remain at the rear
fender so if the crowd moved in on him they could move in
to protect him from
the crowd.
Mr. Rankin. Who asked him to stay at the
rear fender?
Mr. Curry. I believe Mr. Lawson.
Mr. Rankin. The Secret
Service man?
Mr. Curry. Yes, sir.
And what did Secret Service agent Winston
G. Lawson have to say about
this, IN REGARD TO NOVEMBER 22, 1963? DULLES: "...do
you recall that any
orders were given by or on behalf of the President with
regard to the location
of those motorcycles that were particularly attached to
his car?'
LAWSON: "NOT SPECIFICALLY AT THIS
INSTANCE ORDERS FROM HIM."
[emphasis
added---Lawson would go on to say "it was my understanding that he
did not like a lot of motorcycles surrounding the
car", something not borne
out by very recent prior motorcades from
11/18-11/22/63]63
The HSCA summed up the
situation best:
"The Secret Service's alteration of
the original Dallas Police Department
motorcycle deployment plan prevented the use of maximum
possible security
precautions...Surprisingly, the security measure used in the
prior motorcades
during the same
motorcycles in
insecure...The Secret Service knew more than a day before
November 22 that the
President did not want
motorcycles riding alongside or parallel to the
Presidential vehicle...(emphasis added)"64
And, as regards the Dallas
Police, in keeping with all prior motorcades in
1963, DPD Captain Glen King
stated that the Secret Service was primarily
responsible for the President's security, while the role of the
DPD was a
supportive one.65
Security Stripping #3
Press & Photographers
out of the picture (literally):
DMN reporter Tom Dillard---"We lost
our position at the airport. I
understood we were to have been quite a bit closer. We were
assigned as the
prime photographic car which, as you probably know,
NORMALLY A TRUCK PRECEDES
THE PRESIDENT ON THESE
THINGS [MOTORCADES] AND CERTAIN REPRESENTATIVES OF
THE
PHOTOGRAPHIC
PRESS RIDE WITH THE TRUCK. In
this case, as you know, we didn't
have any and this car that I was in was to take
photographs which was of spot-
news nature." [Emphasis added].66
Dillard forcefully said the same thing on
C-Span on 11/20/93 telling the
TV audience that the flatbed
truck was "canceled at the last minute" and they
were put in Chevrolet convertibles "which totally
put us out of the picture."
[all
previous trips, inc.
and behind JFK's limousine,
inc. WH photographer Cecil Stoughton,
who rode in
the SS follow-up car from July 1963 until 11/21/63.]67
Henry Burroughs, AP photographer (rode in
Camera Car #2)---"I was a
member of the White House pool aboard Air Force One when we
arrived with JFK
in
car shoved back to about #11 position in the motorcade.
We protested, but it
was too late." 68
Cecil Stoughton, WH photographer (rode in Camer Car #2)--- "I did see a
lot of the activity surrounding the various trips of the
President, and in
many cases I did see the agents in question riding on the
rear of the
President's
car. In fact, I have ridden there
a number of times
myself during
trips...I would jump on the step on the rear of the [
until the next stop. I have made photos while hanging on
with one hand...in
quickly- no routine,..."69
Security Stripping #4
Will Fritz's men out of the
motorcade:
Seth Kantor's
notes----"Will Fritz's men called off nite
before by SS.
Had planned to ride closed
car w/ machine guns in car behind Pres." [which
could mean someplace behind JFK's
car, as was the case in
Security Stripping #5
Other vehicle shuffling:
Milton Wright, Texas Highway Patrolman
(driver of Mayor Cabell's car)---
"As I recall, prior to
the President arriving at the airport we were already
staged on the tarmac. I do not recall what position I was
in at that time but
it was not #1[the number taped to his car's
windshield]. At the last minute
there was a lot of shuffling and I ended up in the 5th
vehicle. My vehicle was
the last to leave downtown after the shooting because
the police set up a road
block behind my car."71
Secret Service Agent Roger Warner stated
in his report that, while at
Love Field during the
forming of the motorcade, "I undertook duties to aid SA
Lawson...in lining up cars
for the motorcade, passing out numbers for the
automobiles, and other general duties..."72
During an interview conducted on 9/27/92,
Lawson confirmed his handling
of the automobile numbers and identification pins in
When we consider that a number of the
vehicles - including the
Presidential limousine -
were out of their original, numerical order, the
trail of suspicion leads to these two men.73 Lawson was in
charge of the "car
numbers for the windows" at Love Field. 74
There was even more security stripping
attributed to the Secret Service.
The Secret Service
"prevented the Dallas Police Department from inserting into
the motorcade, behind the Vice-Presidential car, a
Dallas Police Department
squad car containing homicide detectives. Agent Lawson didn't know who
canceled the Dallas Police Department car...
Security Stripping #6
Personnel shuffling: an
addition, and subtracting people from where they
normally would be
General Godfrey McHugh (rode in VIP car)--- was asked to sit in a car
farther back in the motorcade, rather than "normally,
what I would do between
the driver and Secret Service agent in charge of
trip"- he admitted this was
"unusual";75
"Ordinarily McHugh rode in the Presidential limousine in the
front seat. This was the first time he was instructed not
to ride in the car
so that all attention would be focused on the President
to accentuate full
exposure."76
Lt. Col. George Whitmeyer
(rode in pilot car)--- "Mr. Lawson acknowledged
that Lt. Col. George Whitmeyer,
who was part of the Dallas District U.S. Army
Command, who Lawson said
"taught Army Intelligence" and who rode in the pilot
car, "wasn't scheduled" to be in the
motorcade. [as 17 H 615, Lawson's
scheduled motorcade list, bears out]. Mr. Lawson denied that the presence of
Col. Whitmeyer
had anything to do with Lawson's prior service in the CIC, Army
Counter Intelligence
Corps."77; "My father passed away in 1978 and therefore
the answers to your questions are somewhat based on
personal recollection of
his information given to me. In regards to your first
question, my father was
invited by Col. George Lumpkin (ret.) (deceased) to ride in
the point [sic]
car of the motorcade. He was not a scheduled
participant. I think that Col.
Lumpkin was with the Dallas
Police Department at the time."78
Security Stripping #7
Motorcade route: largely
kept secret, even from the
made to it.
DPD Chief Jesse Curry---testified that he
was not even consulted about
the motorcade route!79; learned of the route 11/21/63
via agents' Win Lawson
and Forrest Sorrels.80
DPD Asst. Chief Charles
Batchelor---"From an administrative standpoint,
(DPD's
Charles) Batchelor believed that the failure of the Secret Service to
inform the police adequately in advance of the exact route
to be taken by the
president prevented them from adequately organizing their men
and taking the
necessary security precautions."81
DPD Sergeant Samuel Q. Bellah,
one of the three advance motorcycle
officers in the motorcade---"On the night before his
assignment, Bellah
reviewed the planned route with his captain. The route was
not the original
one that was to go straight through
original plan would have skirted the Texas Book Depository
building by a
block, but the altered plan turned to pass directly in
front of the
building."82
DPD motorcycle officer Bobby Joe Dale---
"Two or three days prior to the President's visit we'd ridden
with the Secret Service
checking to see where the turns and problem areas might be. We had three
possible
routes, but we didn't
know which one we were going to take, and we were not briefed on it. But
by riding during the
week, I kept hearing the phrase "escape routes," which dawned
on me
later that should something happen to any part of the motorcade we had an
escape route to either
Baylor or
started the motorcade by going out a gate at the far end. At
that time, we didn't know which
route we were taking; we had three: right, straight, or
left. As we were leaving, the word came
over the radio that we would use the particular route
that went left. ["No More Silence" by Larry Sneed
(1998), pp. 132-133]"
Governor John Connally---Stated
that he was never informed about the
exact route to be used on 11/22/63.83
DNC advanceman Marty Underwood told Harrison
Livingstone: "There were so many
things that fell
through in
route." When
Livingstone commented that the route was changed, Underwood added: "YEAH, I KNOW.
You don't take a guy down a
route like that."("High Treason 2", by Harry Livingstone, page
442: emphasis
added)
SAIC Jerry Behn---(regarding his unpublished, executive session testimony
before the HSCA) Behn told the
author that he was asked two things:
first,
the details about the
motorcade route was changed for the
about the second point since it is another crucial matter
of security, Behn
responded: "I know
it was changed but why - I've forgotten completely - I
don't know."84
Security Stripping #8
Overpass not cleared/
protected properly:
Winston G. Lawson----"I recall
thinking we were coming to an overpass
now, so I glanced up to see if it was clear, the way
most of them had been,THE
WAY ALL OF THEM HAD BEEN UP
UNTIL THAT TIME ON THE WAY DOWNTOWN, AND IT
WAS
NOT...And I was looking for
the officer WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE, HAD BEEN
REQUESTED TO BE THERE...and
I made a kind of motion through the windshield
trying to get his attention to move the people from over
our path THE WAY IT
SHOULD HAVE BEEN...we were
just approaching this overpass when I heard a
shot." [emphasis added].85
Security Stripping #9
Buildings along the
motorcade route not checked at all.
Lawson told both the Warren Commission and the
House Assassinations
Committee that he could not
recall giving instructions to watch building
windows, "although it was his usual practice to do
so".
Security Stripping #10
The most egregious lie, no
active death threats against JFK to be found in the
PRS files of the Secret
Service.
Boring was in charge of the advance for
The
were two separate threats against JFK’s
life involving arrests of several
suspects.
The
by a police informant.
Grant is there for all three trips.
Lawson’s check with the Service’s PRS for
threats against JFK lands on
Boring’s
desk. Boring is directly involved in 2 of the 3
known checks with
the PRS section.
The first check was made on November 8,
1963. Boring replied, "there
wouldn't be any information available of any
consequence". The second check
is done by Kellerman two days
later on November 10th. The agent later
admitted that it was "unusual" not to have found
anything in the PRS files. (2
H 107 - 108). A third check was done by Rufus Youngblood on
the morning of
November
22, 1963, again nothing.
Yet, Lawson knows nothing of any threat to
JFK [see addendum below].
Conclusion
The common links to security
stripping? Boring, Lawson, and Grant.
ASAIC Floyd Boring can be tied directly to
at least 10 instances of
stripping security away from JFK.
The advance team of
Secret Service agents' Winston G. Lawson and David B.
Grant, who worked
hand-in-glove with ASAIC Floyd Boring, were the in-the-field
architects for the planning and implementation of security
concerns (read
stripping) in
11/18/63, fresh from his
participation with Boring on the
the controversial
Boring earlier: Lawson's
Final Survey Report of 11/19/63, includes this
statement: "This survey was conducted by SA Winston
Lawson and SAIC Forrest
Sorrels, and assisted by SA
David Grant, from November 13 through November 22,
1963..."88
And, as we know, Lawson and Grant had a
hand in the motorcycle depletion
and realignment, the overpass security, or lack of it,
the press' and
photographers (dis)placement, and the
planning of the motorcade route.89
Does Mr. Boring think there
was a conspiracy in the death of JFK?
Of course
not.
"Mr. Boring made clear
during the [ARRB] interview that he felt Lee Harvey
Oswald had shot President
Kennedy acting alone, and that there was no shot
from the grassy knoll."
"...I concur 100 % with
the Warren Report."90
"...I would go with the
Warren Commission's report."91
At least on THAT point, Mr.
Boring is remarkably consistent.
Endnotes
1.) 18 H 803-809; "The
Death of a President" by Wiliam Manchester
(Perennial,
1988 edition), p. 37
2.) See also "The Third
Alternative-Survivor's Guilt: The Secret Service & The
JFK Murder" by Vince Palamara (1993/1997, Lancer), pp. 77-80. This article /
chapter has since been expanded upon: see the "1999
update" at "The Vince
Palamara Webpages":
http://www.njmetronet.com/palamara/
3.) See pages xvii and 138
of ARRB's Final Report
4.) 1998 edition of
"High Treason" by Harrison Edward Livingstone & Robert
Groden, pp. 432-433. The ARRB's
interview of Floyd Boring is in the ARRB
medical documents and depositions released in July of
1998. It is MD 259
5.) DNC advance man Marty
Underwood, interviewed by the author on 10/9/92, and
author William Manchester: see the ARRB's
Final Report, pp. 112, 117,and 135
http://www.fas.org/sgp/advisory/arrb98/index.html
6.) 18 H 806
7.) see
also pp. 66-67 of Boring's Truman Library Oral History. Readers will
recall from my May
1995 article "Boring Is Interesting" that Gerald Posner
contacted Boring during the writing of "Case
Closed", although this was not
revealed in any way in the book (Boring told me that he
merely relayed him on
to Hamilton Brown, the Executive secretary of the
Former Agents' Assoc.---this
is duly noted on p. 503. For more on this matter, see
the author's article in
the April 1998 issue of "JFK/ Deep Politics
Quarterly."
http://www.njmetronet.com/palamara/posner.html
8.) Although he did speak to
Chief U.E. Baughman for "Secret Service
Chief"(1962/1963,
pp. 68-69), and David McCullough for "Truman" (1992, pp.
364, 385, 434-435, 802,
808-810, and 908) regarding Pres. Truman. Other than
to the JFK Library (2/25/76 [released 1/98], the Truman
Library (9/21/88), the
Discovery Channel program
"Inside The Secret Service" (1995), PBS'
"Truman",
and this author, no one else has ever interviewed Boring before (and only the
JFK Library, myself, and the ARRB went into any detail regarding the JFK
admin. and the assassination).
Despite
on p. 37 of his book (see above), Boring confirmed to
me twice that he NEVER
spoke to
9.) Boring said basically
the same thing in both his presidential Oral
Histories cited above.
10.) see
also 4 H 336, 337, & 342
11.) see
12.) CD 80;
13.) "The Day Kennedy
Was Shot" by Jim Bishop (Perennial 1992 edition), pp.
511-512;
14.) Sam Kinney found a
piece of skull in the rear of the presidential
limousine while still on board the C-130 on the flight back to
AAFB: see "The
Third Alternative-Survivor's
Guilt: The Secret Service and the JFK Murder"
15.) Paterni
was also a former member of the O.S.S., the predecessor of the
CIA, and was involved in
other matters related to 11/22/63: see the author's
article "The Secret Service: In Their Own Words",
Spring 1998 "Kennedy
Assassination
Chronicles" journal (also available at "Vince Palamara's
Secret Service & General
Research Files":
gopher://freenet.akron.oh.us:70/11/SIGS/JFK/Only/VP
16.) see
footnote 12: Washington Field Office SAIC Harry Geglein
did write a
report about the limo inspection, mentioning Boring, Paterni, and Kinney,
among others.
17.) 2 H 90 (Kellerman); 5 H 67(Frazier); 7 HSCA 389; the two bullet
fragments
retrieved from the front seat of the limousine and turned over
to FBI SA
Frazier by Paterni & Boring were designated CE567 & CE 569
18.) RIF#180-10074-10393:
2/22/78 HSCA interview of
19.) RIF#10078-10450:
3/25/78 HSCA interview of
20.)
21.) 18 H 761-765 (Hickey); see also 18 H 722-802
and 25 H 786-788: these are
all the Secret Service reports submitted to the WC
22.) see
footnotes 12 & 16
23.) The "Tampa
Tribune", 11/19/63 (downtown area picture w/ agents
Zboril holding onto the rear handrails); Cecil Stoughton
photo, taken from the
follow-up car, 11/18/63 (suburban area picture depicting
same); short clip in
David Wolper's
1964 film "Four Days In November" depicting the start of the
onto the handrail, while agent Berger is riding on the
opposite side; agent
Griggs and
Frank Debenedictis.
24.) interview
with author 9/27/92
25.) interviews
with author 5/30/96;6/7/96;11/24/97-letter
26.) letter
to author 9/10/93
27.) interviews
with author 10/19/92, 3/5/94 and 4/15/94
28.) interviews
with author 9/27/92;9/21/93;6/7/96
29.) interview
with author 11/15/95; 11/22/97-letter
30.) interview
with author 9/27/92
31.) interviews
with author 10/22/92 and 2/8/94
32.) interviews
with author 9/16/93 and 4/10/94; 9/10/93, 10/30/93, 12/13/93,
12/31/93, 8/94, and 1/97:
letters and correspondence
33.) interview
with author 3/4/94
34.) interviews
with author 9/21/93 and 6/7/96; However, in his 11/23/97
letter to the author, he stated: "I have heard RUMORS
as to his
which he declined to use his armored car and/ or agents on
the car's rear
platform (emphasis added)."
35.) 12/2/95 and 11/20/97
letters to author; rode close to Kennedy's car from
July 1963
until November 22, 1963, authorized by a specific request from MRS.
Kennedy [The Memories,
1961-1963, by Cecil Stoughton w/ Ted Clifton and Hugh
Sidey (1973), p. 160; see also
[unpublished;
in author's collection]
36.) interview
with author 10/9/92
37.)
author's correspondence with
Roger Peterson, 2/99 (based off Peterson's
very recent conversations with Salinger).
38.) letter
to author dated 12/8/97
39.) letter
to author dated 12/2/97
40.) interview
with author 11/18/95; letter to author dated 11/28/97
41.) 5 H 470
42.) Bishop, 1992 edition,
p. 558
43.) "Taking Charge:
The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964" by Michael R
Beschloss, editor, (Simon & Schuster), pp. 56-57
44.) 18 H 803-809
45.) 2 H 61-155
46.) Borings’ report 18H
p.806
47.) Robert’s report 18H
p.807.
48.) Ready’s
report 18H p. 808
49.) Behn’s
report 18H p.804-805 [
50.) Hill’s report 18 H p.
809
see above; why Hill's report is undated remains unknown
51.) 18 H 789 Grant does not
mention the reduction of the motorcycles in
discussing the November 21, 1963 meeting;"JFK
Assassination File" by DPD Chief
Jesse
Curry (1969), pp.15-16. Curry does and records Grant’s pressence.
52.) 7 H 580-581
53.) 7 H 580-581
54.) 21 H 571
55.) Lawrence Exhibit #2 20H
p. 489 (same as the HSCA's JFK Exhibit F-679)
56.) See also "No More
Silence" by Larry Sneed (1998), p. 162 (based off
interview with McLain)
57.) 3 H 244; 10/98 letter
to the author; "No More Silence" by Larry Sneed
(1998), p. 123 (based off
interview with Baker); 11 HSCA 528
58. 3H244
59) 6 H 293; "Murder From Within" by Fred Newcomb & Perry Adams (1974),
p.33
(based
off interview with Martin); 11 HSCA 528
60.) From Martin's alleged
paramour, Jean Hill: "JFK: The Last Dissenting
Witness" (1992), pp.
112-114 Hill, quoting Martin.
61.) Baker - 11 HSCA 528,
536-537, regarding Baker's 1/17/78 interview with
the staff of the HSCA (JFK document No. 014899)
Martin - 11 HSCA 528, 536, regarding
Martin's 1/17/78 interview with the
HSCA staff, done on the same
day as Baker's, above (JFK document no. 014372)
62. 4 H 171
63) 4 H 338
64.) 11 HSCA 527 & 529
65.) 20 H 453, 463-465; see
also Curry, p. 9
66.) 6 H 163
67.) "The Memories,
1961-1963" by Cecil Stoughton w/ Ted Clifton and Hugh
Sidey (1973), p. 160; see also
(11/18/63) and in
author at COPA 1996)
68.) letter
to the author dated 10/14/98
69.) letters
to author dated 11/30/95 & 11/20/97
70.) 20 H 391; see also 4 H
171-172 (Curry); 11 HSCA 530;
71.) 9/3/98 e-mail to the
author
72.) Roger C. Warner’s
report 25H 786-7 CE 2554
73.) 11 HSCA 530
74.) 17 H 618, 625; 4 H 322
75.) CFTR radio (
76.) 5/11/78 interview with
the HSCA's Mark Flanagan (
also 7 HSCA 14])
77.) 1/31/78 HSCA interview
of Secret Service agent Winston Lawson
(
78.) letter
to author from George Whitmeyer, Jr. dated 9/28/98
79.) 4 H 169
80.) CD 5, p. 4
81.) WC document---
180-10109-10411
82.) "Fairfield (TX)
Recorder", 11/17/88: based off interview with Bellah
[provided
to the author by Bellah]
83.) "NY Herald
Tribune", 11/29/63
84.)
author's interviews with Behn, 9/27/92
85.) 4 H 351; see also 4 H
327 and 21 H 564
86.) Boring's JFK Library
Oral History, 2/25/76, RELEASED JAN. 1998 via
efforts from the author
87.) 25 H 786; "Murder
from Within" by Fred Newcomb and Perry Adams (1974),
pp. 37 - 39
88.) 17 H 618; 4 H 322
89.) "Mortal
Error" by Bonar Menninger, 1992, page 233
90.) Boring's JFK Library
Oral History, 2/25/76, RELEASED JAN. 1998
91.) "Mortal
Error" by Bonar Menninger, 1992, page 233
ADDENDUM: REGARDING PRIOR
THREATS TO JFK'S LIFE---
HSCA document180-
10074-10394, an interview with agent Robert J. Jamison states
that "the threat of November 18, 1963 was posed by a
mobile, unidentified rifleman with a
high- powered rifle fitted with a scope."
In addition, HSCA document
180-10083-10419, an
interview with Lubert F. deFreese,
states that "a threat did
surface in connection with the
President of which the
Secret Service was aware in November 1963 in the period
immediately prior to JFK's trip to
In addition to this threat
information, and separate from the Joseph Milteer
threat of 11/9/63, a CO2
PRS file, released to the
HSCA on 5/3/78 and available to all of us only now
is the specific name of another individual who made a
threat against JFK on
11/18/63: John Warrington
(Sam Kinney also told the author of an unspecified
"organized
crime" threat pertaining to this same trip).
And, as we know, Agent
Lawson confirmed that a big, fat ZERO came
out of the
simply impossible, as the rabid right-wing environment, the
"Wanted for
Treason" mug shots, and
the October 24, 1963 attack on U.N. Ambassador Adlai
Stevenson make
abundantly clear by themselves. When we also couple the
11/2/63
Secret Service before
riding in the follow-up car on 11/22/63 actively searching
for these known
threats?***
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ANATOMY OF A THREAT
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