Former Secret Service Agents on Kennedy Detail Speak on C-Span's Q&A

[Bolo Boffin]

http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1314

Gerald Blaine and Clint Hill

We were waiting for the decision to be made what would happen, the vice President wanted to go to the airport, we wanted him to go immediately to Washington. We thought it would be best if he got out of the area. He didn’t want to leave Dallas without Mrs. Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy wouldn’t leave without the body. And so when Vice President Johnson got to the aircraft, he just waited to find out what was going to happen.

Now we had the problem at the hospital of removing the body because Texas state law require there be an autopsy on any individual killed in that jurisdiction and the autopsy had to be conducted in that jurisdiction so we were not going to be allowed to remove the body from Dallas.

So we tried to convince them that this was the President of the United States, he represented all the people, and we should take him back to the nation’s capital but this was state law, and they were right, it was state law. So we tried to call a federal judge and a state judge, one of them came to the hospital. And after a lot of give and take, a lot of arguing back and forth between Kenny O’Donnell and Dave Powers and officials in Texas and Roy Kellerman, my boss, it was decided that if we took the body out of the hospitals and flew it back to Washington, it had to be accompanied by somebody who is a medical professional at all the time - at all times.

And I said, well, we have the right person for that job and it was Admiral George Burkley who was the President’s physician so from that point on, he remained with the body. The body never left his sight. And it never left my sight until we got to the autopsy room in Bethesda.

Full transcript at the link.

[zappaman]

1. so the wounds were altered

when all this arguing was going on?

[Bolo Boffin]

2. I don't think I've ever heard the idea that the wounds were altered at Parkland. n/t

[EVDebs]

3. Whisking the body from the scene of the crime, Dallas TX

"In 1963, Texas law required that the autopsy of a person murdered in Texas was to be conducted in Texas, unless the murder occurred in places owned, possessed, or controlled by the U.S. government. Thus, the murder and subsequent medical examination of President Kennedy was legally under the sole jurisdiction of the State of Texas. Texas law required an inquest by a justice of the peace for all homicides, and then, if ordered, an autopsy. Dr. Earl Rose, the Dallas County medical examiner, attempted to enforce this law as the Secret Service was removing President Kennedy's body from Parkland Memorial Hospital for immediate return to Washington, D.C. with Jacqueline Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson. A justice of the peace arrived to support Dr. Rose. After a brief scuffle, the President's casket was taken by the Secret Service.<1>"

1 ^ "Parkland Hospital: Voices from History"

. The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.

[Bolo Boffin]

4. Just as the OP says. Thanks! n/t

[BeFree]

5. So....

And after a lot of give and take, a lot of arguing back and forth between Kenny O’Donnell and Dave Powers and officials in Texas and Roy Kellerman, my boss, it was decided that if we took the body out of the hospitals...

Hospitals? The body was in hospitals? wtf?

And you are saying the president's physician, George, was in on the conspiracy?

And you can bet LBJ did not want to leave Jackie. He had to keep a close eye on her. She could spill the beans - upset the apple cart - make a mess of the plans. Whatever plans they had. Or maybe he figured he'd get a chance, finally, to see her naked?

And in the end, they broke Texas law by removing the body.
Why did they feel they had to break the law?

Thanks, bolo, for opening up another can of Texas Sized Worms.

[zappaman]

6. heh

that was a very funny parody of a CTer and made me laugh!
thanks BeFree!

[BeFree]

7. heh

Now a parody of the "Trusters", just to be fair.

The government would never lie to us. They always tell us the truth. And since I read what the government has said, it must be the truth and anyone who says otherwise must be crazy.

[deconstruct911]

8. Duh...

[zappaman]

9. heh

I honestly don't know anyone who thinks that.
Funny that if you don't believe in kooky conspiracy theories that offer no evidence or facts, you get painted with the "government would never lie to us" brush.
I think the government lies all the time.
Now, prove they lied about 9/11 and were actually responsible for it.
Take your time...

[zappaman]

10. or...

prove that the government killed or helped kill JFK.
this is in addition to my previous post that mistakenly thought this was a 9/11 topic...

[Bolo Boffin]

11. Congratulations. You've turned a typo from an uncorrected transcript...

...into the proof that the JFK assassination was staged by the government itself. Take a bow!

:applause: