The Day JFK Came to Town
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ย. 2013
- A first-hand account of the events surrounding President John F. Kennedy's historical visit to Fort Worth as told by Mike Howard, Special Investigator U. S. Secret Service, Ret.
Mike Howard was in Fort Worth protecting President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. He reflects on his service to the family of the President and to other families that followed.
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This man states that you check each window of every building to make sure they are all closed?? What happened in Dealey Plaza? Open windows everywhere! Also I wonder what this man thought about witnesses to the assassination who said that a man was standing behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll flashing a badge claiming to be a secret service agent after JFK was shot. Later ...ofcourse.... the secret service claimed all of their agents were in the motorcade and had no agents placed anywhere else in Dealey Plaza that day..
Films exist showing JFK riding in open parades through other cities surrounded by open windows all over the place. The cop who met a man on the knoll only reported seeing him flash some ID he never got a good look at as he hastened to search the area. The man certainly never claimed to be a Secret Service agent. He was probably one of the other cops or even a reporter.
JFK was stripped of his security in Dallas. Every precaution that would normally been done was not! Motorcade procedures, placement of vehicles, route, and buildings were not protected.
Could they not secure a place within their own library that offered some privacy? The background noise and rear view of a library patron observing the framed artwork is more than just a little distracting.
A significant amount of information in this interview is incorrect.
Example #1: That Lee's brother (Robert) got him into the Marines. False. Lee looked up to his brother, true, But he enlisted in the USMC, when he turned 17. Example #2: As far as I know, there is no evidence that Oswald had a brain tumor. The result: the interview is a mix of Howard's genuine recollections, plus a hefty portion of "urban legend," (David S Lifton, author, "Best Evidence.").
When he talked about riding horses and how that was a benefit in his career… then when the interviewer pointed out that Jackie Kennedy rode horses I anticipated a logical connection… I was disappointed when he said he “ was there” when she was riding, BUT “ he could not talk about that, because it was one of those things…”. I was struck by the oddness of that remark… he couldn’t talk about her riding a horse? Why not? I can only surmise that it was because of WHO she was riding horses with… anyone else have an idea on why he could not continue a conversation about an innocent form of recreation like riding horses? To me it is like saying “ I grew up sailing boats and loved sailing boats… I was there when JFK went sailing, BUT I can’t talk about that…” WHY not? Who was he sailing with? Marilyn Monroe? ……… something caught my attention in how he worded what should have been open honest remembrances of the Camelot years…
When you think about it, why would a secret service agent ride a horse with her on the Kennedy property. Just like if they were riding bicycles around the property the secret service wouldn't start riding bicycles. The family wouldn't want to be followed around like that on their property.
Out in public like on a riding trail yes. But Jackie probably didn't get to do much of that during that time.
Anyway I just took his answer as no he didn't have anything to do with her horseback riding, and so didn't have anything he could tell about it. Also he wasn't assigned to her detail except for a couple of short term assignments.
He did word it sort of awkwardly, maybe just because he realized that because of his previous comment about horses the interviewer was expecting some type of information which he didn't have.
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Oswald got an “Undesirable” discharge, not dishonorable.
Too bad he wasn't in charge of security in Dallas. Mike is absolutely fascinating in his recollection of minute details and fun in the telling. This is by far the best interview I have ever heard on the Pre-Dallas transition. What a blessing he is and that the interview took place.
Listening to him? Feels like visiting family. Texans must be purdy nice. I’m gonna rewatch
You should check out Anton Cheiken because this guy here is redicilous.
From Wikipedia: “He intimated that he might know something of special interest." Such statements led to Oswald's hardship/honorable military reserve discharge being changed to undesirable. The story of the defection of a former U.S. Marine to the Soviet Union was reported by both the Associated Press and United Press International.
Thank you for sharing this historical and fascinating
Interesting interview. I sure wish he would have stopped saying,”But anyhow…”
Thank you for sharing these historical and fascinating recollections surrounding JFK's fateful trip to the Dallas and Fort Worth area. I hope more people see this video as we mark the 50th anniversary of this event. The "scope" story and the mandolin picker in the cellar, of course, interested me in particular. JB, RMBC
His opinions on Oswald are straight out of the newspapers… he is a guy who should be able to figure out more of the truth , but like so many “ Good ol’ Boys” is incapable of putting all the pieces of the puzzle back together in a logical way. For all his law enforcement background and training he did not impress me as having high level deductive reasoning ability into the Oswald cover up.
There are differences of opinion and people aren't stupid just because they don't have the same opinion that you do. I listen to both sides of the assassination debate, but I tend to tune out people who insult others because in most cases the more I listen to them I realize they are very aggressive and bullying, and not willing to have a civil discussion.
Host at the end there "The facts may never be totally agreed upon".... was a rather tacide but subtle final word.....
Oswald was not a deserter. I don't know where he got his information from, but, those blackouts he was speaking of? Never heard that before. Dishonorable discharge was issued because he had defected (unsuccessfully I might add), before that he had an honorable discharge. He didn't take a rifle in to work that morning, either. I swear the nonsense that people say that is just so much hogwash involving this case is crazy. I liked the stories he told up until he started in with the stuff that is either plain wrong or the result having a bad memory when he said a bunch of stuff about Oswald that has been proven to be wrong. Oswald was part of a false defector program at the time he went to the USSR. This meant that he was an intelligence asset.
J. Edgar Hoover wrote to the State Dept. asking what they knew about "Oswald" because he knew that the real Oswald was alive and well in the United States and was running guns into Cuba. He said that the guy in the USSR was an imposter, to not let him have his passport until he was ready to go back to the U.S. Naturally, the State Dept. ignored Hoover and gave the person they had sent to the USSR in Oswald's place the passport early. The guy posing as Oswald was a person who understood and spoke Russian like a native Russian. He was raised in a Russian speaking household in the U.S. and that was why he was sent to the USSR while Lee Oswald stayed in the U.S. serving his country in other ways, like smuggling guns into Cuba on behalf of the CIA.
I have no idea what this imposters name was. He called himself Harvey. His service record echoed Oswald's. He went through basic just after the real Oswald had finished basic. There are two pictures of Oswald in basic. One shows a 6' tall athletic Oswald, the other shows a 5'8" skinny kid. They were two distinctly different people. One Oswald loved to fight and was a dominant personality type. The other Oswald was a bookworm type who kept to himself. Kerry Thornley, a fellow Marine, wrote a book about the bookworm Oswald. The Warren commission did not speak to any of the second Oswald's friends in the Marines because they could not allow the knowledge that there had been a phony Oswald in the USSR to get out, it would expose the CIA Project Oswald, which was a real program at the time.
If you think I am crazy or BS'ing you, research what I have just listed for yourself. Project Oswald was a real project. Two Oswalds, one name, that has to be the key to unlocking the truth about this still unsolved murder of a U.S. President. By the way, I am related to both Oswald and JFK. I am pretty sure this means that JFK and Oswald were related as well. You can't make this stuff up. Something strange, very strange was going on in 1963 and we have yet to learn what that was. Perhaps that is why there are still records being held in secret from us?
I believe what you are saying to be true… it helps make sense of so much . People have to blindly ignore so many facts to conclude that Oswald acted alone in this complex CIA run Coup. The fact that so many Agencies, people of position and organizations ( including the Military, the Secret Service, the FBI, the Media, the Congress, the Dallas Police Dept.,LIFE magazine, the State Dept., the Library of Congress, Ruth Payne, AND the Mafia!) fell into line to lie and hide the truth from the American people remains an obvious red flag that something “ FISHY” has been going on for 70 years!……
Those are theories and you are entitled to them. But you state them as fact, and anything that contradicts your belief you consider to be nonsense and hogwash.
Not all conspiracy theorists believe what you do, there are many different theories. If there was a conspiracy only one theory is right and the others are hogwash, including maybe yours. Why don't you just say this is what I think happened, and not try and claim to be the person who has the answer and everyone else is wrong.
It's easy to criticize known facts to cast doubt. Who did it? What is your evidence?
@@StevePemberton2they are only theories to you, because you fail to do the research necessary.
If you look up project Oswald, you will find very interesting information that backs up the assertion. What is wrong is the suppression of the information by the gov’t.
Ignoring the information that’s out there only helps the perpetrators of the murder and those who covered it up.
To ignore the information that is available, because it’s not “fact” or “real evidence” to you - is the equivalent of an ostrich sticking their head in the dirt.🙄
Sounds like this interview was conducted in a bowling alley. Could not watch.
Carswell to Love
Pres plane left Before Johnson's.
protocol: VP watches pres take off
Then af2 takes off
leapfrogging Af1 in flight so that the occupants of Af2 can greet the arrival of the press at Love Field.
The issue is JFK aides stated the following: Politics and protection do not mix." Yet, the Secret Service did not seal windows in Dallas but, information on Oswald was withheld by the FBI CIA. further the threat that Oswald stated in writing to Hosty was destroyed by superiors in Dallas and Washington . Domestic intelligence Czar William Sullivan was informed about Oswald in Mexico in September 1963 and his visits to the Cuban and Soviet Union . That information was not shared with case officer Hosty who was handling Oswald. Peter Russo
Enjoyed this, but I have to disagree with part of what he said at the end. He said that Lee Harvey Oswald just threw his rifle in the backseat to travel with him to work that fateful day and potentially misaligned its site. If the gun was indeed in the car, it was in that package that was wrapped up.
This is the first time i've heard of Oswald having blackouts and a tumour on the brain.
This agent never showed any regard for the killing of JFK. He just spoke of it as if though it was just a passing by event and keeps talking about what he did.
He has to be a republican that could give a hoot.
Taking everything he says with a grain of salt.