JFK The Enduring Secret

Episode 198 is the ninth in a mini- series wander covering the Secret Service and their possible involvement in the coverup, or the  actual plot itself to assassinate President Kennedy.  Today's episode  continues our coverage of Sam Kinney, the driver of the Presidential follow up car that day in Dallas.  It's part of the overall story of the secret service agents in Dallas that fateful day.  The follow up car was carrying the bulk of the secret service agents who were protecting the president and the first lady, and it was  situated right behind the presidential limousine.  Kinney is undoubtedly one of the good guys, and this is a bonus episode that captures verbatim his actual written statement  dated November 30th, some eight days after the assassination.  Kinney was never asked to testify before the Warren Commission. He was absent from the handful of more prominent agents in the passion play that did testify in 1964. In later years, he would talk  on three separate occasions with researcher Vince Palamara. In the previous episode, you heard portions of  those  interviews and also from Sam Kinney's  neighbor Gary Louck,   According to Louck, Kinney had privately revealed to him  that Kinney was the one who found the bullet in the presidential limousine. Louck relayed this story after Kinney's death. That  bullet, according to Louck's account of it,  became  Warren Commission exhibit 399.  And that was  long before agent Paul Landis more recently  came forth with a similar assertion. Of course, both cannot be true.  In the prior episode we also tell Kinney's story of how,  during the flight back to Andrews Airforce Base, traveling with the presidential limousine in a C-130 transport, Kinney  would inspect the vehicle and find a portion of the president's skull in the back seat.  It was a piece of the president's  skull that he placed in his pocket and  gave to Admiral George Berkeley, upon return to Washington.  Where did the fragment go?....the answer to that question is still a mystery, as it is unaccounted for at the autopsy.   Delving deeper into the individuals involved into  the President's protection  is for the purpose of solving the perplexing  question of how men generally so loyal to the President, might have motivations to act otherwise.  It is the seminal question regarding the inner workings of the secret service and their true orientation to President Kennedy. The inner  workings of the Secret Service are just that...they are secret...and not much has been said by the agents outside of the official agency position.... since the assassination, but at least one man Vince Palamara is widely considered to be the resident expert on how the Secret Service figures into the assassination story.  Mr. Palamara has done more original research on this topic than  anyone else.  Others have done extensive research including Doug Horne. So this series of episodes will give us a chance to better understand this often over looked aspect of the assassination story.  

Even as early as 1964, rumors and serious concerns over  the lone gunman theory and the evidence that might contravene it,  were becoming a major concern for the government and the commission. Conspiracy theories were contrary to the government's stated narrative from the very beginning. This  real-life story is more fascinating than fiction.  No matter whether you are a serious researcher or a casual student, you will enjoy the fact filled narrative and story as  we relive one of the most shocking moments in American History. An event that changed the nation and changed the world forever.