Survivor's Guilt by Vincent Michael Palamara

Fascinating.įor researchers, perhaps the most important chapter in the book is called “Debunking Agent Gerald Blaine’s The Kennedy Detail.” It’s the longest chapter in the book, and goes into detail to counter Blaine’s book, which-as Palamara points out-has no footnotes and uses the sheen of authority to put forward questionable history. Baughman, a former Secret Service Chief, who also indicates a violation of what he calls “basic, fundamental” rules. Why, he asks, did the motorcade not proceed in a wedge formation, with agents physically on the president’s limousine, as was customary? He also points to an interesting article from December of 1963, from U.E. Palamara contrasts the Secret Service performance in Dallas and compares it to a trip taken just four days earlier in Tampa.

Dave Ratcliffe, Understanding Special Operations, 205-210). He criticized the route itself, the open windows in the buildings, the slow speed of the parade route, and a few other things (cf. As is well-known, Fletcher Prouty had referred to the poor quality of the protection supplied on the day of the assassination, pointing out, for example, that there were strict procedural measures that had been ignored. Palamara, via his correspondence, for example, is able to supply significant first-hand reports about the quality of Presidential protection from an historical perspective prior to, and the quality of the protection on that day. Kennedy, although much of it reflects on or fills in the historical background of the Secret Service. The first thing to know about this new collection is that it does not solely focus on John F. As a result of his frequent contacts with members of the Secret Service, he has information in his books that cannot be accessed elsewhere.

Vince has specialized in the Secret Service protection for decades, producing the books Survivor’s Guilt, JFK: from Parkland to Bethesda and now The Not-So-Secret-Service: Agency Tales from FDR to the Kennedy Assassination to the Reagan Era. The Kennedy researcher and film historian Joseph McBride often cites Penn Jones’s suggestion that one should “find a single aspect of the case, and research the hell out of it.” The living embodiment of that suggestion is Vincent Michael Palamara.

Survivor's Guilt by Vincent Michael Palamara