The Kennedy Detail, Gerald Blaine
The Kennedy Detail, Gerald Blaine
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The Kennedy Detail
JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence

Author: Gerald Blaine, Lisa McCubbin

Narrator: Alan Sklar

Unabridged: 17 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/17/2010


Synopsis

Even today, almost five decades after John F. Kennedy was slain, the public continues to be captivated by the "Kennedy Curse" and new theories about what really happened on that fateful day in 1963. For nearly fifty years former Secret Service agent Clint Hill has lived with the unimaginable guilt of losing a president on his watch and has obeyed an honor code of silence, refusing to contribute to any books about the assassination. Until now.

Hill was just eight feet from President Kennedy when bullets pierced the president's head right before his eyes. Covered with blood, Agent Hill pushed Jackie Kennedy into the back seat. Clinging to the trunk of the open-top limousine as it sped away from Dealey Plaza to Parkland Hospital, he slammed his fist in anger, as he looked back to the agents in the follow-up car. His eyes, filled with despair, told them what they already knew.

Including contributions from over forty agents who were on the Kennedy Detail from November 1960 to November 1963 and those who knew them, never-before-published letters written by Jackie Kennedy in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, the bizarre unpublished story about a film Jackie made in September 1963 with the on-duty Secret Service agents about an assassination of the president, and the original November 18, 1963, Tampa security report from the author's personal files, which conspiracy theorists have long claimed was destroyed by the Secret Service, The Kennedy Detail provides an unfiltered look at the events surrounding this pivotal moment in American history.

About Gerald Blaine

As a special agent of the Secret Service on the White House Detail, Gerald Blaine had the privilege of serving three U.S. presidents during one of the most tumultuous times in American history. After resigning from the Secret Service following John F. Kennedy's assassination, Blaine embarked on a career path with IBM Corporation and became a leading expert in high-level security, lecturing worldwide on the use of computers in criminal justice and intelligence. In 1990, Blaine retired from IBM and joined ARCO International Oil and Gas in Dallas, Texas, as director of international security, government relations and foreign affairs. After retiring from ARCO in 1999, Blaine spent four years with Hill & Associates, an Asian-based consulting company, as a senior consultant, and finally retired from the corporate world in 2003. He now lives in Grand Junction, Colorado with his wife of more than fifty years.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Richard on December 06, 2010

A pretty compelling account of the Kennedy assassination by the Secret Service agents themselves. I'm convinced: one gunman (Oswald), three bullets, no government conspiracy. The book doesn't address Oswald's motives in detail, as the Secret Service agents have no particular insight into that. Well-......more

Goodreads review by Frank on February 04, 2013

Five stars, absolutely. And here is why! I began my research (1980) into the Assassination after the HSCA released its’ findings around 1979 I think it was. My Assassination library is extensive. By 1980 I had been in Law Enforcement 4 years. I had an understanding of how investigations come togethe......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on January 17, 2018

Can I give this book 10 Stars, I mean really? For a battle for best book I have ever read in my life it would be at the top. Not only am I a historian, and political scientist, I am a citizen of the United States, unfortunately for me I am only 33 years old so I was not alive in 1963 when the subjec......more

Goodreads review by Bj on March 24, 2011

I do not know why these individuals have waited 48 years to talk about what happened that day. However, in a positive light it offers unique insight into what it was like to work with President Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy on the Secret Service Detail. It is an oral testimony of history through the eyes......more

Goodreads review by Liz on September 28, 2014

This was well worth my time to get yet another perspective on this tragic event that I lived through many years ago. Very well written and gripping and honest. I highly recommend it for those who want to refresh their memories or learn more about the JFK assassination.......more