As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
As a reality of history, the Lame Cherry is more fascinated by the events which led up to the actual assassination of John Kennedy in Dallas Texas, than the well known assassination and cover up.
Texas was not a one day stop for the President. President's in that era did not travel as much and in Texas. John Kennedy flew in with his wife and staff to Fort Worth, where they would spend the night, then fly on to Dallas, where he was to give a speech at the Trade Mart, and then onto Austin Texas for the weekend. It was four days in Texas, which due to the assassination ended on the second day.
It was the events of the first day and that night which would literally seal John Kennedy's fate. His Secret Service had a habit of getting booze, getting drunk and partying all night whenever the President left Washington DC. Texas was no different as of the plus 20 Secret Service Agents on this trip, 9 ventured out from their hotel, to the Dallas Press Club, looking for something to eat.
As there was not any food there, future CBS reporter, Bob Schieffer and another local Fort Worth reporter had been designated to be guides for their heroes in the media, that night in Texas. Schieffer's editor had told him that he was not going to be around the Kennedy's, as his beat was the police force, and that is where he was going to be. As a matter of a great career move, Schieffer would be at the center of thee entire assassination, as he wore cop street clothes and had access to the Oswalds in a real macabre way of the story was more important than a dead President.
The destination that the national press wanted to go was a beatnick bar, which was "dry" and served coffee to everyone, except the cops, media and whoever else was important. The Cellar would be the place that the 9 Secret Service Agents would tag along to, as Robert McNeil from PBS stated, "I was too tired to go along as they ended up at a grimy bar and things got wild"
Bob Schieffer was the only one who really spoke about it in the facts, the others were covering up, Schieffer stated that they all stayed until they saw the Texas dawn
Thee importance of the Cellar would become clear when people we have all seen around John Kennedy that day when he was shot had not slept all night, were chasing underwear clad women in a bar, where everyone sat on pillows, and they were all hungover, including the press.
Fractions of seconds mattered. When Lyndon Johnson's agent heard the first shot at the motorcade, he dove on top of Johnson, putting him on the floor of the limo. For John and Jackie Kennedy, that hesitancy would have the throat wounded Kennedy, be stationary long enough as the driver of the limo, and older Agent of 56 years, stopped the car, and with that John Kennedy's head exploded.
By that time, Jackie Kennedy had retrieved part of her husband's skull, was forced into the car by the hungover agent, and would ask a doctor if they needed the skull as it was important.
Feb 10, 2015 ... The death of guitarist Arvel Stricklin is the loss of another witness to the night of drinking hours before JFK was killed in Dallas.
Chief Justice Warren castigated the head of the Secret Service in making him admit that an Agent who was fully rested would respond better than one who had been out partying all night.
This is the Lame Cherry filling in more of the details which you never knew.
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