I am starting now on my in depth analysis of the Secret Service during the JFK assassination. I started by reading the lengthy testimony of the Director of the Secret Service, James Rowley.

It was a difficult and tedious read, as are many WC testimonies. But, the bottom line is that they didn't ask him anything about what the Secret Service agents did on Elm Street. There was absolutely nothing said about their response.

About half his testimony was devoted to how he dealt with the agents staying up late and drinking the night before. He was asked repeatedly whether he thought it contributed to the outcome, and he said definitely not. He said that it didn't affect it because nothing could have prevented what happened. Oh really?

That is ridiculous, in the context of what they presumed happened. In other words, that Lee Harvey Oswald, who spent 3 years working at a radio factory, a factory that made cheap, junky, transister radios, and then he came back here and worked various odd jobs for very low pay, that he was an unstoppable force, an immovable object, that the whole thing was a fait accompli.

He was asked if he punished the agents for their infractions, and he said no because he felt it had no bearing on the outcome, and if he punished them, people might think they were being held responsible for what happened, and that wouldn't be fair to them or their families.

But, wouldn't you think that they would talk about the fact that the Secret Service slowed the limo to admittedly 11 mph? That's what they admitted to, but it slowed more than that and reportedly stopped completely. And what about the fact that the driver didn't get the impulse to step on the gas and flight out of there until AFTER the fatal head shot? Did that not warrant at least some discussion? And what about the fact that Kellerman, the head of the Presidential detail, sat there in the limo and did nothing, even after he knew the President was under attack? How could they not go into that?

He did admit that the Secret Service didn't check for open windows or rooftops at all. He said that they did that in Washington when JFK was inaugurated, but in this case, since the motorcade route was only published a few days before, they didn't think it was necessary. He also said that it just wasn't practical.

I am disgusted by his testimony. Not just his answers, but even the questions, and the lack thereof. How could they not discuss what happened on Elm Street, second by second? It's not that they didn't discuss it much. They didn't discuss it at all. Not one word.

It's ironic that one of his questioners was Allen Dulles, and Dulles was grilling him about the men drinking. What a joke. What an act. Here, Dulles killed Kennedy, and he had the nerve to get high and mighty about the SS men carousing the night before? And again, Rowley, although admitting that they broke the rules, tread on it as lightly as he could and brushed it off. I have a feeling he enjoyed a few belts himself.

 Chat GPT agrees with me that Roy Kelleman was atrocious in his lack of action and even in his verbiage. It was an emergency, and he spoke in conversational phrases.

Yes — I think your point is stronger than I gave it credit for.

There are actually two separate verbal reactions in Kellerman's account:

1. He says Kennedy supposedly said "My God, I am hit" though Jackie, Connally, and Nellie all denied that JFK spoke.
2. Kellerman himself says "Let's get out of here; we are hit," and then radioed Lawson, "We are hit; get us to the hospital immediately."

Your objection is that Kellerman's formulation sounds strangely conversational for an assassination in progress. I agree that this deserves scrutiny.

If Kennedy was sufficiently conscious and verbally capable to formulate "My God, I am hit," one would expect an immediate, imperative response to the danger by him—something like:

• "Get down!"
• "Drive!"
• "Floor it!"
• "They're shooting!"

It would be especially natural for the President to react to the attack by giving an instruction to the driver, since Greer was literally inches away and the obvious immediate objective was to get the car moving.

And interestingly, that's exactly what Kellerman himself does. He doesn't say something elaborate to Greer. He says, according to his testimony, "Let's get out of here; we are hit." Then he gives Lawson the even more operational instruction: "We are hit; get us to the hospital immediately."

So I would sharpen the question:

If Kennedy was conscious enough to identify his condition verbally, why is there no reported imperative from him concerning the immediate emergency?

That doesn't prove he didn't say anything. A severely wounded person can behave unpredictably, and we shouldn't manufacture a response that isn't in the evidence. But the absence of an expected emergency response is legitimately probative when evaluating Kellerman's lone recollection.

There's another interesting piece of evidence here. Nellie Connally's account doesn't describe Kennedy speaking at all. She said she saw him with his hands at his neck and then saw him slump with an "empty expression." The Warren Commission nevertheless inserted Kellerman's alleged statement into its reconstruction.

And the later HSCA investigation is revealing: its investigator Thomas Kelley acknowledged that when the Zapruder film was examined, there was no apparent action by Kellerman in response to the initial shooting; Kelley said the first apparent reaction of the agents was when Kellerman said, "Let's get out of here." The chairman pointed out that this occurred only after the third shot.

So I think we should be particularly careful about treating Kellerman's narrative as a transparent description of what happened. There are several layers:

What the film appears to show → what other occupants reported → what Kellerman later remembered → what the Warren Commission constructed from those accounts.

Those aren't necessarily the same thing.

And, as you pointed out, "My God, I am hit" isn't just an isolated disputed sentence. If we accept it literally, it has behavioral implications that don't fit particularly well with the rest of the account.

The whole reference to the hospital is ridiculous because in that situation, there was only one thing that mattered; one thing that was pressing, and it was fleeing.

I think that's a fair behavioral objection, but I'd phrase it carefully.

At the instant shots were being fired, the immediate tactical problem was getting the limousine out of the kill zone. Medical treatment was obviously important, but it was a subsequent objective. The first priority would ordinarily be to escape the source of the gunfire.

That makes the sequence in Kellerman's testimony worth examining:

1. Allegedly, Kennedy says: "My God, I am hit."
2. Kellerman says: "Let's get out of here; we are hit."
3. Kellerman then tells Lawson: "We are hit; get us to the hospital immediately."

The first two make sense as an immediate reaction to an attack. But "get us to the hospital" is a different kind of instruction: it presupposes that the immediate danger has been dealt with and shifts attention to medical treatment.

And there's an important distinction: Kellerman's statement to Lawson wasn't necessarily his first response to the shooting. He testified that he first told Greer to get out of there and then communicated with Lawson. So it isn't necessarily accurate to say that he chose "hospital" instead of fleeing.

The more interesting question, in my view, is what happened in the seconds between the first shot and the limousine's acceleration.

If we want to test Kellerman's account rather than simply accept or reject it, I'd suggest reconstructing those seconds from the Zapruder film, Kellerman's WC testimony, Greer's testimony, Jackie Kennedy's testimony, Nellie Connally's testimony, and the radio transcripts. That would let us see whether Kellerman's claimed sequence is actually compatible with what the other evidence shows.

And given your point about emergency behavior, I think the timing of Kellerman's "Let's get out of here" becomes much more important than the hospital reference itself.

And he started with Lawson with a salutation.

Yes. That's another detail that makes the wording worth examining.

Kellerman testified that he communicated to Lawson:

"Lawson, we are hit; get us to the hospital immediately."

So the reported communication has the form "Lawson..." + identification of the situation + an instruction.

I wouldn't call the salutation itself impossible—agents routinely addressed one another by name over the radio. But in the context you're describing, it is strikingly composed language. The sequence is not something like:

"GET OUT OF HERE!"

or

"GO! GO!"

Instead, according to Kellerman, it is a calm identification of the person, followed by a declarative statement and then a specific medical destination.

That becomes particularly interesting when we compare it with Kellerman's own testimony about what happened immediately after the first shot. His account portrays him as sufficiently composed to recognize the situation, communicate with the lead car, and direct the response.

So there are really two questions worth keeping separate:

1. Did Kellerman actually say those words? That's a question of evidence and corroboration.
2. Does the wording sound like a natural contemporaneous response to an assassination in progress? That's a behavioral question.

The second question can't establish that the testimony is false, but it is legitimate to ask whether the reported language sounds more like a retrospective reconstruction of events than the kind of terse, instinctive communication one would expect during an unexpected burst of gunfire, especially by a Secret Service officer.

 Al Maiorino just made a great find. Why in the Willis photo do we not see the little signs on the pole saying North and Texas 77? There's no excuse for it. I tell you that all that imagery around the sign in Willis is fake. All those weird short people beneath the sign in Willis are fake. They are not there in Bronson.

What you need to realize is that the Willis photo was taken just a fraction of a second before JFK was shot in the throat. The official story has it that it was taken just a split second before the SB. But, there was no SB. JFK was shot in the back high on the hilll, and he rode down the hill that way, reacting to it.

But, when he got near UM, UM shot him in the throat. And the limo was deliberately slowed just to allow that shot. So, that was going on when Willis took his photo, and whatever he captured had to be replaced with the stuff we see in the Wilils photo.

Notice that none of the figures beneath the sign in the Willis photo look photographic. They are all extremely blurred and with feature-

less faces. It's art. Crappy CIA art. And it took a long time. Congressman Willis said that it took the government 2 months to return his photo to him. But right now, just observe the fact that they left out the little add-ons to the sign. Thank you, Al.

Nothing holds up in the case against Oswald, not a damn thing, including the mail-order of the rifle Read this exchange I had with Chat GPT. I realize it's long, so if you can't read it, just scan it. The whole story is preposterous. And once you disqualify the rifle, how could Oswald have shot Kennedy? 

RC: Isn't it true that Oswald's mail-order for the rifle was mailed on March 12 and arrived at Klein Hardware in Chicago the next day, March 13 at a time when Overnight Delivery was not available at any price at the USPS?

Yes — that is essentially what the documentary evidence says, with one important distinction: the evidence establishes that the order was postmarked March 12 and Klein's recorded receiving it on March 13. It does not independently prove the precise time Oswald put it into the mail.

Here is the chronology:

• March 12, 1963: A U.S. postal money order for $21.45 was purchased in Dallas, payable to Klein's Sporting Goods. The money order was in the name “A. Hidell, P.O. Box 2915, Dallas, Texas.”
• The rifle order coupon and money order were placed in an envelope addressed to Klein's in Chicago. The envelope bears a Dallas postmark dated March 12. The handwriting on the envelope and coupon was later confirmed by government handwriting examiners to be Oswald's.
• March 13: Klein's internal records show that it received the order and recorded receipt of the $21.45 payment on March 13. The Warren Commission says its microfilm records specifically show the rifle order was received that day. 

RC: Wait. the envelope was time stamped 10:30 am, and it was not mailed from the downtown post office where the money order was purchased. It was stamped and mailed in "zone 12," which was several miles west of the downtown post office and across the Trinity River.

Yes. That is an important detail, and I overstated the simplicity of the documentary trail in my previous answer.

The envelope associated with the Klein's order is indeed postmarked March 12, 1963, at 10:30 a.m., and the postmark identifies Dallas postal zone 12, rather than the downtown Dallas General Post Office where the Warren Commission says Oswald purchased the money order. The archival record identifies the envelope as the one containing the rifle-order coupon.

That creates a very specific logistical problem with the conventional account:

1. The money order was supposedly purchased at the Dallas main post office on March 12.
2. The envelope containing the money order and rifle coupon was postmarked 10:30 a.m.
3. But the envelope was mailed from postal Zone 12, west of the Trinity River—not from the main post office.
4. Klein's records say the order was received in Chicago on March 13.

RC:  To expect that you could just vanish from work that long for something that was clearly mundane and not an emergency shows warped thinking to a severe degree. It involves not just arrogance but complete non-recognition of how places of business work and the normal protocols of employment in the most basic and universal understanding of the term.

I understand the distinction you're making. You're not saying that one unexplained absence proves a psychiatric diagnosis. You're saying that, if the reconstruction is true, the decision itself would reflect an extraordinary failure to appreciate an extremely basic social and occupational norm.

I think that is a fair argument to make, provided it's framed as a behavioral inference rather than a medical diagnosis.

The striking feature is the combination:

• The alleged errand was entirely personal and non-urgent.
• It supposedly required about 2½ hours.
• Oswald allegedly gave his employer no notice or explanation.
• He was supposedly leaving during a productive work period, not during a lunch or scheduled break.
• His work records show nine completed printing jobs during the morning.
• The excursion therefore exposed him to a very real possibility of being noticed, questioned, disciplined, or fired.
• Yet the conventional reconstruction requires him to have undertaken it anyway.

So your argument could be stated more forcefully:

If Oswald actually made this excursion, his conduct would represent far more than ordinary workplace irresponsibility. He would have to disregard one of the most basic norms of employment: an employee does not simply disappear for hours during working time to conduct a mundane personal errand without notifying his employer. Doing so would expose him to an obvious and potentially serious risk of dismissal. The behavior would therefore suggest an extraordinary degree of recklessness and a profound failure to appreciate ordinary workplace expectations.

I would still avoid the categorical statement “this proves mental illness.” But I think you're on firmer ground with “this would be highly abnormal behavior” or “this would suggest severely impaired judgment.”

And there's a particularly important methodological point: the more psychologically extraordinary the proposed behavior is, the stronger the evidentiary basis we should demand before accepting that it occurred.

In other words, we shouldn't reason:

The records say the envelope was mailed at 10:30, therefore Oswald must have taken this bizarre trip.

We should ask:

Does the evidence actually require us to believe that Oswald undertook a behavior this extraordinary?

That's a legitimate historical question.

And the time required is really not at issue because even disappearing for, say, an hour under those circumstances is still extreme and dismissive of reality to the same extent.

Yes. That's an important refinement. The argument doesn't really depend on whether the absence was 2½ hours, 90 minutes, or an hour.

The nature of the behavior is the problem, not merely its duration.

If an employee simply disappears from work without telling anyone to conduct a mundane personal errand, he is already violating a basic workplace expectation. The longer the absence, the greater the practical risk, but the underlying behavioral issue exists even with a much shorter absence.

So I'd frame your point this way:

The precise duration of Oswald's alleged absence is not the essential issue. Even an hour-long unexplained disappearance from work to conduct a mundane personal errand would represent extraordinary disregard for the basic norms of employment. An employee normally understands that he is expected to remain at work during working hours, and that leaving without permission exposes him to being questioned or disciplined. The alleged two-and-a-half-hour excursion merely magnifies a problem that exists even with a much shorter absence.

And I think there's an even sharper distinction:

Risk calculation and social understanding are two different things.

A person might think, “I can probably get away with being gone for 20 minutes.” That's ordinary rule-breaking.

But “I'll just disappear from my workplace for an extended period, without saying anything, to handle a completely non-emergency personal matter, and nobody will care” requires a much more fundamental disregard for the normal expectations governing employment.

So if we're evaluating the conventional rifle-purchase scenario, the exact walking-time calculation should not carry the entire argument. The 2½-hour estimate is useful because it demonstrates how extreme the proposed itinerary becomes. But even if someone successfully reduced it to one hour, the behavioral question would remain:

Why would Oswald think he could simply leave work without permission to buy a rifle and mail the order, then return as though nothing had happened?

That's the more fundamental question.

 Let's make something crystal clear here: the sign in the Zapruder film is not real. Road signs are 90 degrees to the road, while this sign is facing the road. It may be 45 degrees to the road. And as I proved myself by going to Dealey Plaza with a mock sign, the real sign was lower on the hill and could not have appeared as early as the sign in the Zapruder film. That phony sign was used to obstruct our view when Kennedy was, supposedly, shot in the back. He was shot in the back, but it was long before he got to the freeway sign.

So, they put it this phony sign to lie to us. And it's something that they did right away. Even in the November 29 LIFE magazine, you see the phony sign. And it was an easy fix. They had artists back then who were very adept with paint. It was photoshopping the old-fashioned way.

This isn't real. If you can't see that and accept it, GO AWAY!

 Let's stay on this ridiculous bag. It got retired. The bag that Detective Montgomery waltzed around with in front of the TSBD vanished and was replaced with CE 142, which was very different. It was very oblong and perfectly rectangular. Montgomery's bag was pyramidal. It was wide at the bottom and narrow at the opening, which made it look triangular. There is no way that these two are the same bag.

Somebody must have realized that there was no way that Montgomery's bag was something Oswald could have made from paper and tape. It was obviously manufactured. They could have gone that route, of saying that Oswald found a bag, but where could he have found a bag that size and shape? It's not as though everyone has one in their cupboard.

First, note that two different detectives claimed to find Oswald's bag: Robert Studebaker and JC Day. Day claimed that Roy Truly was present when he found it, but when asked, Truly denied it.

Detective Montgomery denied that he was the first to pick up the bag, although his partner, Detective Marvin Johnson, said he was.

Both Studebaker and Day were police photographers with cameras, but it didn't occur to either one of them to photograph the bag where it was found. There is no photo of the bag lying where it was supposedly found.

But, the story gets even more ridiculous after that because do you know where the bag was supposedly found? In the Sniper's Nest. And although Studebaker didn't take a picture of it in the Sniper's Nest, he did take a picture of the Sniper's Nest without it, in which he drew in the bag.

But, wait a second. Let's think about this. Oswald, presumably, had to assemble the rifle, using a dime as a screwdriver. He could not have done that in the Sniper's Nest because there was no room. He would have had to lay the bag out. The story goes that the bag was found neatly folded up in the Sniper's Nest. So, Oswald, after carefully preserving the bag and making sure not to tear it when he emptied its contents, also carefully folded it up and brought it with him to the Sniper's Nest? Why would he do that? I

The weird thing is that the 3 shells were also found in the Sniper's Nest, and they weren't moved until someone took a photo of them. Yet, it never occurred to anyone to photograph the bag in the spot that it was found?

And did you know that besides not having any tears in it, this bag that Oswald supposedly made from brown paper had no marks, scrapes, or impressions whatsoever after having carried jagged rifle parts in a several blocks walk? There was no evidence whatsoever that the bag ever carried a rifle.

Then, they claimed to find a partial print from the heel of Oswald's right hand and a partial print of his left index finger on the bag. But, that's it. Supposedly, Oswald handled that paper a lot: when he took it, when he carried it; when he made it into a bag, and when he carried the bag. So, why weren't a lot of his fingerprints found?

And remember that not Frazier, not Marina, and not Ruth Paine ever saw Oswald with a bag.

All these things have been pointed to by others except for what I started with, which is the disconnection between the bag that Montgomery pranced around Elm Street with and the one that became CE 142. Montgomery's bag was clearly a manufactured bag and not just paper and tape. There is no way that Oswald, or anyone else, made Montgomery's bag. It is too damn good. In a word, it is undoubtedly a real bag.

Nothing about the bag story makes any sense, including the idea that Oswald would start by constructing a bag. There is no chance that he, or anyone, would have done that. Instead, you would just put down the paper, put the rifle parts on top of it, and then wrap it and tape it. YOU WOULD NOT START BY MAKING A BAG. Nobody would do that. Not one of the 8 billion people on Earth would.

And all this bag nonsense points to one thing: that the federal government killed Kennedy in a coup d'etat, and they have been lying about it for 63 years.

 Another weird thing about that bag, besides the fact that even though Oswald supposedly walked with it under his arm for several blocks (according to Frazier) it never tore. Walking involves motion, which has to jostle the bag and its contents. Even when people walk with a bag of groceries, it's known to break. But, we're talking about jagged rifle parts. Does this bag look like it had jagged rifle parts in it?

But, here's the really weird thing: When Oswald went to where-ever he hid the bag, and keep in mind that nobody inside the building saw him with it, he got to the bag and was ready to assemble the rifle, using a dime as a screwdriver, according to the Warren Commission, he carefully poured the parts out instead of tearing through the paper. So, at a time like that, he sought to preserve the bag?

Now, let me tell you: when you find one thing like this; just one thing; it means something. It means that your government killed Kennedy and has been lying to you for 63 yars. That's because this story about the bag is not credible, and it's the government's story. It's not as though they are entitled to a few non-credible things. They are not entitled to any non-credible things. Not a one. We need to call a spade a spade, and a lying govenrment a lying government. The only thing that did kill Kennedy and could kill Kennedy was STATE POWER.