Who told Roberts? I imagine it would be someone his boss answered to.

One who’s still alive and we can ask is Abraham Bolden, the first African American Secret Service agent to serve on the White House detail.



Secret Service didn't like African Americans in 1963. Ask Agent Abraham Bolden.

Former U.S. Secret Service Agent Abraham BOLDEN was the first African American Secret Service agent to serve in the White House, personally appointed and literally hand-picked by President John F. Kennedy to the White House detail. Agent Abraham Bolden reported overt racism by his fellow agents and outright hostility toward the "n------loving president," quoting fellow Secret Service agents on the JFK detail.

In addition to enduring all manner of personal indignities, he was concerned at the lack of professionalism in those assigned to protect the president and reported his concerns. He was told, "OK. Thanks" by his superiors. When the problems weren't addressed, Bolden requested transfer back to the Secret Service office in Chicago.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10025609769

While Mr. Bolden is advanced in years, he is still sharp of mind.

Thanks for sharing the years old thread - jam packed w/nfo I had not known. I always enjoy a Kid B (Octafish) deep dive.

Total,100% BULL SHIT! JFK never made that request!

And JFK did not ordere the “bubble top” roof off that day.

We know what Bush did to Carter.

Article by Edwin K. Black:

The Chicago Plot to Kill JFK

From the Forward, written in 1980:

Five years ago, on commission from Atlantic Monthly, I began investigating a Chicago conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy just twenty days before Dallas. When I asked the wrong questions and came too close to sensitive information, I was followed and investigated by a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) operative. By examining my own files, I identified him and embarrassed the DIA into halting the harassment. There’s a record of their "project" in the credit bureau where it began, Credit Information Corporation (named Cook County Credit Bureau at the time). The DIA’s inquiry listed my employer as Atlantic Monthly, although that assignment was my only work for the magazine.

Unfortunately, the harassment didn’t end until after my apartment was broken into. No valuables were taken. But all my files were obviously and clumsily searched.

But that was five years ago, before Watergate, a different era. Today, when reporters edge close to dirty government secrets, it is the agencies that become nervous. And they think thrice before attempting the retaliation and tactics once common to the game.

My investigation, revived within the past eight months, took me to New York, Long Island, Houston and Washington as well as through courts, warehouses, police stations and federal offices in Chicago.

Hundreds of hours scrutinizing federal, state and local documents, dozens of interviews, hundreds of leads. And always with the Secret Service and FBI working against me. Doing what they could do make the investigation tedious, time-consuming and expensive. Perhaps they hoped the investigation would just disappear for all the obstructions.

I hope they now know they must come up with the answers. It is simply unacceptable to wait until the 21st Century for the release of seventy or so top secret Warren Commission documents.

https://archive.org/details/TheChicagoPlotToKillJfk

It wasn’t bulletproof but it might have made it harder for a shooter to make a hit.

The decision to take off the top was theirs, not his. The agents guarding JFK weren't all on JFK's side, SS Agent Abraham Bolden reported recently:

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First black member of Secret Service finally testifies to JFK committee, details Chicago assassination plot

By Isabel Vincent
New York Post, May 21, 2025

EXCERPT...

“He was serious about giving everyone equal opportunity,” Bolden said of Kennedy in a 2008 TV interview. “He never walked by me once that he didn’t strike up a conversation.”

In his 2008 book, “The Echo from Dealey Plaza: The True Story of the First African American on the White House Secret Service Detail and His Quest for Justice After the Assassination of JFK,” Bolden wrote about the racism he encountered from other agents on the president’s team, claiming they were often drunk on the job.

In his testimony Tuesday, he spoke about overhearing an angry 1963 meeting between Kennedy and his vice president Lyndon Johnson in the Oval Office in which Johnson accused Kennedy of dropping him from his run for president the following year, warning the president to “‘better stop f—king with me.'”

“He was redder than a sack of beets,” Bolden said, referring to Johnson when he stormed out of the Oval Office.

He also outlined a report he heard at a staff meeting about threats to kill Kennedy with “a high-powered rifle” at an Army-Air Force football game in Chicago on November 2, nearly three weeks before he was killed.

“Information that I had revealed was that some Cuban exiles were trying to assassinate the president when he came to Chicago,” Bolden said, adding that he knew from one of the agency’s weekly meetings that there had been threats against the president at the campaign stop in Dallas where was shot dead.

CONTINUES...

https://nypost.com/2025/05/21/us-news/first-black-member-of-secret-service-finally-testifies-to-jfk-committee/



Abraham Bolden is still alive and he is worth hearing and reading.

PS: Rupert Murdoch always surprises.

“Mr. SPECTER. What decision had been made as to whether to have an open car in Dallas?
Mr. O'DONNELL. The. decision had been made to have an open--if the weather was good, he would ride in an open car.
Mr. SPECTER. And do you recall who made that decision?
Mr. O'DONNELL. Well, I would make that decision under normal circumstances. But it was almost an automatic decision, that whenever the weather was clear, he preferred to ride in an open car.
The motorcade through Dallas was intended to expose the President to as many people as possible. Here are some more quotes from O'donnell's testimony before the Warren Commission…

Mr. SPECTER. Did he enjoy that exposure, strictly as a personal matter?
Mr. O'DONNELL. He enjoyed it very much. The President--liked people, and he liked to mingle with people.

Mr. O'DONNELL. Well, we had a motorcade wherever we went. Particularly when we went to a large city, the purpose of going there was to give the President as much exposure to the people of Dallas and vice versa, the people of Dallas to the President, as possible.

So he he felt it was a duty of the Presidency to expose himself to the public.
Larry O'Brien was another of Kennedy's closest aides who had run his campaigns since 1956 testified to the President's known preference to ride in open cars when possible. From his testimony…

Mr. ADAMS. While we are on that subject, just to digress for a moment, what was his attitude toward riding in open cars?
Mr. O'BRIEN. It was certainly his preference. He had always expressed a view that in our democracy a President should, whenever possible, be exposed to the people. And I think, also, he felt the people should be exposed to him. He always wanted to have the closest possible contact with people. And in that context his preference certainly at all times was an open car.

Mr. O'BRIEN. But certainly we were totally aware of his desires in that area. And this had, of course, been his position not only in the United States but in trips outside the country.“

JFK had ordered CIA to stop trying to kill Castro. They didn't and the same crew appear to be the ones who turned around and assassinated President Kennedy. Details...



Howard Hughes' "fixer," Robert Maheu, served as the go-between. The scheme was launched when Dwight Eisenhower was president and VP Richard Nixon was the CIA White House Action Officer.

CIA hired the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro.

The CIA’s director of security, Howard J. Osborn, sends a detailed summary to the deputy director on the CIA-Mafia collaboration to assassinate Castro before the Bay of Pigs invasion. The history starts with the authorization from the deputy director for plans, Richard Bissell, for “a sensitive mission requiring gangster-type action. The mission target was the liquidation of Fidel Castro.” The report describes how Robert Maheu was used as a CIA “cutout” to approach mobsters Johnny Roselli and Sam Gold. It also describes how the CIA’s Technical Services Division “developed a pill that had the elements of rapid solubility, high lethal content, and little or no traceability” as an assassination device. Six pills were produced and passed initially to a Cuban official with mafia ties, Juan Orta. When he got “cold feet,” the pills were passed to a member of the Cuba Exile Junta, Anthony Verona, to pass to operatives in Havana. But, the report states, “Verona’s potential was never fully exploited as the project was cancelled shortly after the Bay of Pigs episode.”

From the memo:

7. The pitch was made to Roselli on 14 September 1960 at the Hilton Plaza Hotel, New York City. His initial reaction was to avoid getting involved but, through Maheu's persuasion, he agreed to introduce him to a friend, Sam Gold, who knew the "Cuban crowd." Roselli made it clear he did not want any money for his part and believed Sam would feel the same way. Neither of these individuals were ever paid out of Agency funds.

Read the mostly unredacted memo at GWU National Security Archives:

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/20836-6

Mr. Roselli and Mr. Giancana could appear when the House Select Committee on Assassinations subpoenaed them in the late 1970s. Roselli's body was discovered cut into pieces and stuffed into an oil drum floating near Miami. "Sam Gold" referenced in the CIA memo was actually Sam Giancana. Mr. Giancana died in his home in Oak Park, Illinois, where he was shot to death in the back of the head and then six times around the mouth.

The photo above depicting Robert Maheu is from Chicago magazine: How the CIA Enlisted the Chicago Mob to Put a Hit on Castro

He was put in the commission to protect the CIA.

...wanting US to support the people of Congo, Vietnam, Brazil, etc. instead of the corporations cough Brown Brothers Harriman, United Fruit Co, Standard Oil and colonial powers cough Belgium, France, etc. exploiting them.

He planned to use peace instead of threats of violence, preventing nuclear war over the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis and a number of other times we are just starting to learn about. He believed in ta policies that were fair to all, especially young people just starting out. He also got Americans to the moon and back safely before any other nation.

He did all that in 1,037 days in office. Imagine what he would have done if given another 5 years?

IMFO, We certainly would be living in a country today is set up with a Supreme Court majority that sides with a traitor installed by Vladimir Putin, leading a kakistocracy comprised of plutocrats, oligarchs and a horde of murderous thugs interested in helping themselves to all they can, anytime they can.

The shooter?

Regarding the then Soviet Union.

Had something to do with it.

DeMohrenschildt was "a geologist" who happened to be a White Russian exile, living in Dallas, and somehow connected to the CIA. He had a party at his home where he met Lee Harvey Oswald, brought there by Mrs. Ruth Paine, who had kindly rented a room to Mrs. Oswald and her two small girls, and even found a job for Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas School Book Depository about two weeks prior to the assassination.

https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKdemohrenschildt.htm

Receipts on George H.W. Bush:

History Lesson missing from post-Dallas curricula...

George H. W. Bush was in Dallas on November 22, 1963. I know so because AFTER THE ASSASSINATION he phoned the FBI to report a name he heard threaten JFK:

Never read anything like the Constitution or the integrity of the Union.
They did read beer bottles..
I still think Texas is a shit-bag.

Love Field was where LBJ was sworn in on the plane taking JFK’s casket back to DC.

That's why the video starts at Love Field, the airport where Air Force One arrived after a short flight, about 13 minutes I believe, from the airport at Fort Worth.

You know who appear to have played big roles that are still largely unknown: Gen. Curtis LeMay, who wanted to know where Air Force One was headed after the assassination, and radio pioneer Art Collins, who understood how to knock out communications into and out of Washington DC.

Arthur Collins and Curtis LeMay at the Time of the Assassination

https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/search?q=Curtis+LeMay

And I've never seen this footage of the Secret Service being waved off. Definitely strange!

And, yes, here on DU is where I read about Agent Abraham Bolden.