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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]stopbush
(24,395 posts)I caught a rebroadcast yesterday on The Military Channel of "The Kennedy Detail," a documentary based on the 2010 book written about the SS agents assigned to protect JFK that day.
During part of an interview where SS Agent Clint Hill is asked if he thinks the SS could have done something different that day, he relates that by the time the limo turned onto Elm, the crowds began to thin, and the agents considered the "crowd part" of the motorcade to be over. Hill says that at that point in any motorcade, SOP was for any agents riding on the side rail or rear step of the limo to LEAVE the limo and get into the trailing cars, because at that point, the limo would start accelerating to make its entrance onto the freeway so it could get to the Trade Mart ASAP. The agents did NOT ride on the limo once it started accelerating to freeway speed.
Ergo, even if SS agents had been riding on the rear step of the limo for the entire route, they would have begun to dismount from JFK's limo once it hit Elm Street and began accelerating toward the Stemmons Freeway. That was SOP.
Imagine what the CTist would be saying IF the agents had been on that rear step and the Zapruder film showed them all suddenly dismounting! SOP would have appeared to have been clear evidence that they were all getting out of the way of shots they knew were coming.