SS Agent Blaine Promotes Own Conspiracy Theory

Secret Service Agent Blaine Promotes Own Conspiracy Theory -
Will They Leave It In The Movie?

In a talk about the assassination of President Kennedy to West Virginia high school students, former Secret Service Agent Gerald Blaine, said:  “This story needs to be told and the only answers [about that day] that are reliable are from the agents who were there,” 

http://www.kenatchityblog.com/2013/03/aei-client-gerald-blaine-talks-to.html

Blaine co-author of “The Kennedy Detail,” which is being made into a major motion picture, said. “We wrote the book to make sure the conspiracy theorists didn’t kidnap history.”

Well according to “The Kennedy Detail,” Blaine’s own book claims that the agents who were there, including all of them in the follow up car, said that the President and Governor Connally were hit by different shots, thus supporting the governor and Mrs. Connally’s recollections, and discounting the single-bullet theory.

By doing so they promoting a conspiracy theory of their own, since for Oswald to have been the lone assassin, JFK and Connally had to have been hit by the same bullet, as the official report concludes.

“There were a number of things that happened that just added divisiveness in the country,” Blaine said. “I like to talk to young people who don’t know, who may have heard it from their parents, so that they might trust the government.”

Well, the public's confidence in their government has been decreasing steadily since the Warren Report was issued in 1964, proclaiming Oswald as the lone assassin, and the same number of people distrust the government - 80%, as disbelieve the Warren Report.

Do you think there can be a connection?

Now that they are making a major motion picture out of Blaine's book “The Kennedy Detail,” will they adhere to the text of the book and report that the Secret Service agents on the scene who witnesses the President get shot said that Kennedy and Connally were hit by separate bullets?

Or will they leave that part out? 

“The Kennedy Detail”

p. 213

“…Clint Hill heard a sudden explosion sound from the right of him to the rear…he saw President Kennedy lurch forward, grab at his neck in a sudden strange motion, and then slump to his left….He leapt off the running board of Halfback,…As his feet propelled him toward the moving car, Clint Hill was so focused on reaching his target that he didn’t even hear the second shot.”

p. 214-215

“Follow-up car driver Sam Kinney’s responsibility was to maintain his focus on the president’s car. He saw Kennedy’s reaction to the first shot and then saw Clint leap onto the pavement a split second later….His eyes were still focused on President Kennedy when he heard the second shot and saw Governor Connally slump toward his wife.”

“When the first shot was fired, Connally immediately recognized it as a rifle shot; the sound came from behind. He looked back in a reflexive motion over his right shoulder to where the sound had originated but saw only a few men, women, and children standing on the grassy knoll alongside the street. There was nobody holding a gun, and the sound seemed to have come from further away. He turned forward again and was just about to look over his left shoulder to make eye contact with President Kennedy when he felt a crippling blow to his back. Like Clint, the adrenaline coursing thorough his veins through his system into such shock that he never heard the second shot, the very shot that hit him.”

“The instant Nellie Connally heard the first shot, she turned her head to look over her right shoulder – the sound had come from the right rear of the car – and she saw President Kennedy draw his hand to his throat. She turned to her husband just as the sound of the second shot permeated the car. Immediately the governor doubled over, blood spilling from his chest. ‘Oh no, no, no, no!’ he yelled as he slumped toward Nellie. ‘They’re going to kill us all!’”

“ASAIC Roy Kellerman was sitting in the front passenger seat of the presidential limo, directly in front of Governor Connally. He herd the first loud pop over his right shoulder and as he turned his gaze back and to the right, he thought he heard the president say, ‘My God, I’m hit.’ He swung around to his left to look into the back of the car and saw President Kennedy grasping at his neck.”

“Kellerman grabbed the radio, turned to Bill Greer, and said, ‘Let’s get out of here! We’re hit!” He pushed the transmission button and there was no mistaking the urgency in his voice. ‘Lawson, this is Kellerman. We’re hit. Get us to the nearest hospital. Quick!’”

“As he was relaying the message, he heard one bang, and then another, and as Greer tramped down on the accelerator, Kellerman felt the car burst forward with such thrust he felt like it was jumping off the goddamned road.”

REMEMBERING JACK - Former Secret Service agent talks to students about Kennedy assassination, ripple effects.

http://newsandtribune.com/local/x657742804/REMEMBERING-JACK-Former-Secret-Service-agent-talks-to-students-about-Kennedy-s-assassination-ripple-effects

By JEROD CLAPP

jerod.clapp@newsandtribune.com

March 4, 2013

CHARLESTOWN — While waiting for him to arrive in Austin, Texas, Jerry Blaine got word that the man he’d been assigned to protect was killed in Dallas.

Blaine — a former Secret Service agent who was on protection detail for three presidents, including John F. Kennedy — talked to students at Charlestown High School about his time on the service and the repercussions Kennedy’s death had on the United States.

Bill Halter attended the talk and said the day Kennedy was shot sticks out in his memory, even though it seemed like forever ago to the students in the crowd.

“It’s ancient history to them, but I can vividly remember being inclass and a girl burst into class telling us the president had been shot,” Halter said. “It shocked us all.”

Blaine talked to students about his experience as written in his book, “The Kennedy Detail.”

But as conspiracy theories about the assassination still circulate 50 years later, Blaine said he and his fellow agents discount the notion of a second shooter from a grassy knoll that day.

“This story needs to be told and the only answers [about that day] that are reliable are from the agents who were there,” Blaine said. “We wrote the book to make sure the conspiracy theorists didn’t kidnap history.”

He said Lee Harvey Oswald, Kennedy’s assassin, acted alone in firing all three shots by himself. But he said in a broader perspective, tragedies like that are likely to happen again and have become more frequent, partly because of larger population in theUnited States.

Dr. Tim McDonald, an Advanced Placement government teacher at New Washington High School, said he helped set up Blaine’s visit to schools across the district. He said with today’s generation of students so far removed from the events, he wanted to make sure they understood what the assassination meant for America.

“I think it’s a vital part of history,” McDonald said. “It’s at leastclose enough in recent history with the Kennedy assassination, so to have them talk to someone who was there with Kennedy, it brings the presidency down to their level.”

Blaine said the country was beginning to see a lot of change during Kennedy’s presidency, including key moments of the civil rights movement. Though dissension began to take root after Kennedy’s death, Blaine said he hopes he can reach students and assure them that in spite of conspiracy theories and dangers, they can trust lawmakers and others.

“There were a number of things that happened that just added divisiveness in the country,” Blaine said. “I like to talk to young people who don’t know, who may have heard it from their parents, so that they might trust the government.”