Did the Secret Service murder JFK’s driver Shipman to replace him with Greer who was willing to go along with the asssassination?
Vince Palamara writes:
www.afausss.org/in_memoriam.htm
THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER AGENTS OF THE SECRET SERVICE'S single page, listing the *32 *agents that passed away in the line of duty---out of literally thousands of men and women---since the late nineteenth century...the ONLY JFK-era agent listed is White House Garage/ Chauffeur Special Agent THOMAS B. SHIPMAN: "October 14, 1963: Died of a heart attack while on a presidential protective assignment at Camp David, Maryland."
Because of Shipman's death, Bill Greer drove JFK in Dallas and his immediate replacement, Henry J. Rybka, was recalled at Love Field...it's never too late to investigate.
MORE mysterious deaths BEFORE, during (?), and after 11/22/63 (inc. suicide): Shortly BEFORE 11/22/63 (the man who COULD very well have driven JFK in
Dallas instead of Greer):
From page 211 of Col. George J. McNally's obscure book, A Million Miles of Presidents:
"One of the President's drivers, TomShipman, died suddenly"
In the chronology of McNally's narrative, after discussing the death of baby Patrick Kennedy (Aug. 1963) and the 10-state "Conservation Tour"(9/24/63-10/63), this would seem to indicate a time period of around Sept. 1963 for Shipman's death (McNally also mentions the death of Administrative Officer Frank Sanderson who died in May 1963 as verified by an internet search at Ancestry.Com. Strangely, no death for a "Tom" or "Thomas” Shipman is listed for 1963.).
However---Secret Service SA Tom Shipman was ON the "Conservation Tour", as Office-of-the- Naval-Aide records for this trip reveal.In fact, Shipman rode on Helicopter #2 from the South Lawn of the White House on the way to Andrews Air Force Base on 9/24/63 with Ken O'Donnell, SA Gerald Blaine, SA Paul Burns, and SA William Greer. Also, Shipman is listed in the Protective Survey Report (written 9/20/63)for the 9/24/63 Milford , PA stop [RIF#180-10089-10262](Previously, Shipman had been on JFK's 3/23/63 trip to Chicago, IL, driving the follow-up car [RIF#154-10003-10012].).
If that wasn't enough, it appears that there were two new additions to the regular White House Garage (chauffeur) detail in Oct./ Nov. 1963, in addition to veterans SA Samuel A. Kinney, SA George W. Hickey, SA William R. Greer, Special Officer (SO/ Uniformed Division) William C. Davis, WH Policeman James M. Carter, and SAIC Morgan L. Gies: SA Henry J. Rybka (attending Treasury School from 11/1/63 to 11/8/63 and who would go on to be recalled by Agent Roberts at Love Field) and SA Andrew M. Hutch (who doesn't join the detail until 11/18/63) [Secret Service Shift Reports for November 1963, inc.
From the record, then, it appears Shipman died suddenly sometime between October 3 and 11/1/63. It would be nice to have the travel logs for this time period,
but the Secret Service destroyed them in January 1995: From Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board, p. 149---
"However, in January 1995, the Secret Service destroyed presidential protection survey reports for some of President Kennedy's trips in the fall of 1963. The Review Board learned of the destruction approximately one week after the Secret Service destroyed them, when the Board was drafting its request for additional information. The Board believed that the Secret Service files on the President's travel in the weeks preceding his murder would be relevant."
WHY the destruction? [BECAUSE THE SS MURDERED JFK] WHERE is Shipman's death certificate?