The Not-So-Secret Service: Agency Tales from FDR to the Kennedy Assassination to the Reagan Era - Softcover

Palamara, Vincent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1634241207 ISBN 13: 9781634241205

Verlag: TRINE DAY, 2017

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While there haven't been many Secret Service related books about U.S. presidents, the ones still in print (and even those long out of print) are often sanitized memoirs of a politically correct nature or "tell-all" tabloid historical junk meant merely for entertainment purposes. The Not-So-Secret Service provides the facts with the bark off, so to speak, and reveals politically incorrect information of a decidedly unsafe nature. It may be controversial and against the grain, but this book is heavily documented and timely, as the Secret Service guards our political candidates, foreign dignitaries, and, of course, the President, the first family and the ex-presidents and their families.

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Vince Palamara is the leading civilian literary Secret Service expert. He is the author of Survivor's Guilt: The Secret Service & The Failure to Protect President Kennedy and JFK: From Parkland to Bethesda - the Ultimate Kennedy Assassination Compendium. Palamara has appeared in over 100 other author's books, radio, television/DVDs, newspapers, at national conferences, and many online resources. 

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The Not-So-Secret Service

Agency Tales from FDR to the Kennedy Assassination to the Reagan Era

By Vincent Michael Palamara

Trine Day LLC

Copyright © 2017 Vincent Michael Palamara
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-63424-120-5

Contents

Cover, 
Title page, 
Copyright page, 
Epigraph, 
Introduction, 
CHAPTER ONE: One of JFK's Secret Service Agent Drivers Died Shortly Before The Kennedy Assassination, 
CHAPTER TWO: The Secret Service is Boss, Not the President! Just Ask Truman, Kennedy, Johnson ... and Clinton, 
CHAPTER THREE: Agent Wade Rodham, Hillary Rodham Clinton's Uncle She Has Never Mentioned ... And No One Else Has, Either!, 
CHAPTER FOUR: 1957-era security for President Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth, 
CHAPTER FIVE: President Truman was adored ... by the Secret Service, 
CHAPTER SIX: Building Rooftops were Regularly Guarded During the FDR, Truman, Ike, and JFK eras ... and Police Intermingled in Crowds, too, 
CHAPTER SEVEN: FDR – training ground for the Truman, Ike, and Kennedy bodyguards (including an assassination attempt in an open car), 
CHAPTER EIGHT: The Agent Who was Too Close to LBJ, 
CHAPTER NINE: Debunking Agent Gerald Blaine's The Kennedy Detail1, 
CHAPTER TEN: Nixon and the Secret Service Mole, 
CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Agent Who Destroyed Kennedy's Brain and Was Tied to Nixon's Watergate, 
CHAPTER TWELVE: The Special Agent In Charges (SAICs) of The White House Detail (WHD), later known as the Presidential Protective Division (PPD), 1901-2017, 
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Leading Civilian Literary Secret Service Expert, 
Acknowledgments, 
Index, 

CHAPTER 1

One of JFK's Secret Service Agent Drivers Died Shortly Before The Kennedy Assassination

Ponder this incredible thought for a moment: out of literally thousands of Secret Service agents who have come and gone since the inception of the agency in 1865, encompassing part or all of three different centuries (the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty first, to be precise), only 36 operatives/agents/personnel have died in the line of duty. Fortunately for all concerned, this is an extremely small number of unfortunate souls who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. However, what makes this tiny sampling even more powerful is the fact that, as I discovered in 1997, one very special agent, Thomas B. Shipman, one of three agents who drove President Kennedy or his Secret Service follow-up vehicle on many trips between Election Night 1960 and the Fall of 1963, died 10/14/63 of an alleged heart attack at (of all places) Camp David, the month before the Kennedy assassination

I made this shocking discovery when perusing a passage buried in Col. George J. McNally's obscure and non-indexed book entitled, A Million Miles of Presidents. The relevant passage reads, "One of the President's drivers, Tom Shipman, died suddenly." I cannot convey how amazing this bit of information was back in 1997 (and still is today), as no other book, article or website ever even hinted of an agent from Kennedy's own detail passing away shortly before the assassination. In the chronology of McNally's narrative, after discussing the death of baby Patrick Kennedy (Aug. 1963) and the 11-state "Conservation Tour" (late September 1963), this would seem to indicate a time period of around Sept. 1963 for Shipman's death. McNally also mentions the death of Administrative Officer Frank Sanderson who died in May 1963, as verified by a quick internet search at Ancestry.Com and other sites. Strangely, no death for a "Tom" or "Thomas" Shipman was listed at the time for 1963. However, Secret Service SA (Special Agent) Tom Shipman was on the "Conservation Tour," as Office-of-the-Naval-Aide records for this trip reveal. In fact, Shipman rode on Helicopter #2 from the South Lawn of the White House on the way to Andrews Air Force Base on 9/24/63 with Ken O'Donnell, SA Gerald Blaine, SA PaulBurns, and SA William Greer.

Also, Shipman is listed in the Protective Survey Report (written 9/20/63) for the 9/24/63 Milford, PA stop. Previously, Shipman had been on JFK's 3/23/63 trip to Chicago, IL, driving the follow-up car. Secret Service agent Sam Kinney told me on 4/15/94: "[fellow agent/driver] Deeter B. [Flohr, Ike's driver] and I were buddies – traveled a lot together; Tom Shipman, Deeter B., and myself." Former agent Darwin Horn wrote to me on 2/25/04: "Shipman was a driver for many years with Dick Flore [sic] and Morgan Gies."

If that weren't enough, it also appears that there were two new additions to the regular White House Garage (chauffeur) detail in Oct.-Nov. 1963: SA Henry J. Rybka, attending Treasury School from 11/1/63 to 11/8/63 and who would go on to be called away from Kennedy's limousine by Agent Emory Roberts at Love Field, and SA Andrew M. Hutch, who did not join the detail until 11/18/63, having previously been a White House Policeman. They joined veterans SA Samuel A. Kinney; SA George W. Hickey; SA William R. Greer; Special Officer (SO/Uniformed Division) William C. Davis; WH Policeman James M. Carter, and SAIC Morgan L. Gies. From the record, then, it appeared Shipman died suddenly sometime between October 3 and November 1, 1963.

It would be nice to have the travel logs for this period, but the Secret Service destroyed them in January 1995. From the Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board, page 149: "In January 1995, the Secret Service destroyed presidential protection survey reports for some of President Kennedy's trips in the fall of 1963. The Review Board learned of the destruction approximately one week after the Secret Service destroyed them, when the Board was drafting its request for additional information. The Board believed that the Secret Service files on the President's travel in the weeks preceding his murder would be relevant."

Why the destruction? No satisfactory answer was ever given, although many hold deep suspicion.

Where is Shipman's death certificate? At present, it is unavailable and, without an exhumation and toxicology tests, at this late juncture, a verdict of "heart attack" is a country doctor 'catch-all' that is unsatisfactory and inconclusive, given the subject at hand (a presumably fit Secret Service agent who had to pass annual physicals and perform the rare honor of driving several presidents).

This was the extent of my knowledge from 1997 until 1999, when I came across an online website dedicated to fallen officers that, for the first time ever, listed Shipman's death and his middle initial and, most importantly, on 7/26/01, when I discovered, once again via the internet, The Association of Former Agents of the Secret Service's website (the organization goes by the abbreviation AFAUSSS). It listed 33 (now, 36) agents and personnel who have died in the line of duty since the Secret Service was established. The only JFK-era agent listed is White House Garage/Chauffeur Special Agent Thomas B. Shipman: "October 14, 1963: Died of a heart attack while on a presidential protective assignment at Camp David, Maryland." It was not until 2013, thanks to the help of researcher Deb Galentine, that an obscure news article was found that mentioned the death of Shipman (The News, Frederick, Maryland, 10/16/63). After a coroner's report furnished the day after his death, Shipman was quickly buried only two days later. Obviously, no toxicology tests were performed. In the last couple of years, I have discovered similar newspaper articles, more data, and new information from surviving members of...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: TRINE DAY
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1634241207
• ISBN 13: 9781634241205
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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