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The United States Secret Service (SS) had a branch that was responsible for evaluating, inspecting and investigating the White House detail and the field offices. The man who was in charge of this area gave testimony before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), and he will be looked at in this post.
The HSCA Says…Thomas J. Kelley.
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Inspector Thomas J. Kelly was one of the men that did this kind of work. He was asked if he was responsible for looking into the performance of the White House detail.
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Mr. MATTHEWS. As an inspector, did you also have occasion to inspect the performance of the White House detail?
Inspector KELLEY. Yes, during an inspection of the White House detail we would review the performance of the detail.
Mr. MATTHEWS. What considerations would you give in evaluating their performance?
Inspector KELLEY. The general conduct of the people on the detail, the carrying out of their assignment, the connection they had with their superiors and their fellow agents.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Would you also have conducted performance reviews of the Protective Research Service?
Inspector KELLEY. Yes. (HSCA III, p. 325)
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This testimony shows that he had the authority to oversee the two areas most connected to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) – the White House detail (WHD) and the Protective Research Service (PRS).
At the time of the assassination, Kelley was in Louisville, Kentucky, when he received a communique from SS Chief
James Rowley's office instructing him to head to Dallas, Texas.
Mr. MATTHEWS. I want to call your attention to November 22, 1963. At that time you were in Louisville, Ky.?
Inspector KELLEY. Yes, sir.
Mr. MATTHEWS. And you received a communique from Chief Rowley?
Inspector KELLEY. Yes, sir.
Mr. MATTHEWS. What were the contents of that message?
Inspector KELLEY. The chiefs office directed me to proceed to Dallas, Tex., to assist Mr. Sorrels, the agent in charge of the Dallas office, to assist him in finding out what had happened at Dallas, what were the events surrounding the assassination, and to coordinate any investigation that might be conducted by the Secret Service concerning the assassination. (Ibid.)
From the beginning Kelley's instructed him to assist Forrest Sorrels in the investigation. Should he not have been placed in charge of the investigation? Or at the very least, oversee the investigation? Yes, is the answer as he would later testify to being in charge in Dallas. I'm not sure why he used this language here.
He is asked if he was instructed to conduct a criminal conspiracy investigation, but he said that he was told to find out what happened and what the SS's role had been in that tragedy. (Ibid.)
He explains what his first actions were upon arriving in Dallas.
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Mr. MATTHEWS. What were your first actions?
Inspector KELLEY. I first met with Mr. Sorrels and we went to the police department where Oswald was being interrogated. I sat in on, I think it was the second interrogation of Oswald.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Now in total you were present for at least four interviews with Lee Harvey Oswald?
Inspector KELLEY. Yes.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Why did you feel it was necessary to be there?
Inspector KELLEY. We were, of course, attempting to find out what had happened, whether he was the assassin, whether he had accomplices, whether there were other problems that the Secret Service might be facing in connection with assassination of other people. It was just generally to find out what had happened. (Ibid.)
They sure didn’t spend much time on finding out if Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) was the assassin and next to no time in determining whether there were any accomplices or not. What was the rush? Why did the case have to be solved within forty-eight hours?
Kelley would tell the HSCA that he felt there were too many people at the interrogations, and that they were conducted under something “less than ideal circumstances.”
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Mr. MATTHEWS. What effect would those circumstances have had upon the interrogation itself?
Inspector KELLEY. In my opinion, it made the interrogation of Oswald by Captain Fritz, who at that time had the primary jurisdiction of handling Oswald, made it very difficult for him to conduct the kind of interrogation that should have been conducted. (Ibid., p. 326)
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We see again that the Dallas Police Department (DPD) had primary, really sole, jurisdiction of the assassination of JFK. The interference of the outside agencies prevented Captain Will Fritz from conducting any real interrogation of LHO. Was that the purpose of flooding the interrogation with people with no jurisdiction?
Kelley testified that “There was a great deal of information coming to us in the Dallas office at that time from the other agencies who had information on Oswald. The FBI had information on him. The agency apparently had some information on him and had furnished it to our headquarters.”
The Dallas police had some information on him and the State Department had some information on him in connection with his trips to Russia. The military was supplying information to our headquarters and it was being provided to me at Dallas.” (Ibid.)
Why would a “loner" have so much information on him at the FBI and CIA (at the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) and Army Intelligence too) and be ready for immediate distribution?
Why did the DPD later deny they had information on LHO prior to the assassination when according to Kelley they did?
From the beginning the focus was on LHO and only LHO as far as the SS were concerned.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Did you request the field offices conduct investigations of suspects who they thought may have a connection with the assassination?
Inspector KELLEY. In connection with the assassination? No; I don't know that we sent any requests, that I sent any requests like that out. You must remember, that there was a coordinated investigation being conducted by the protective research section in Washington and our offices were furnishing us information that came to their attention from other agencies subsequent to the assassination and furnishing that to us at headquarters and to me in Dallas.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Did you request that the Chicago field office conduct an investigation in connection with the rifle found in the Texas School Book Depository?
Inspector KELLEY. Yes; I did.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Who did you talk with in the Chicago office?
Inspector KELLEY. I don't recall now who I talked to, but I talked to someone in the Chicago office and asked them to run this lead out that we had. (Ibid., p. 327)
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Why were no requests sent on anyone else in regards to being involved in the assassination at this early date? How could they realistically know that no one else was involved this fast?
As for the rifle, why was the focus on whom he spoke with instead of what the results were in regards to the rifle allegedly found in the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD)? They just left it here and moved on to another topic.
The topic they moved on to is also of high interest – the issue of the conduct of the SS agents in Dallas.
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Mr. MATTHEWS. To your knowledge, were any of those agents found in violation of the Secret Service rules?
Inspector KELLEY. I don't think they were found in violation of any Secret Service rules warranting any action. It was an area of poor judgment, I presume, but there was no specific violation of any rule.
Of course, the inquiry indicated that their action the night before had nothing, no bearing, on what happened in Dallas.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Did you have occasion to review the performance of the agents at the time of the Kennedy assassination, the shooting episode in Dealey Plaza?
Inspector KELLEY. Yes; the agents that were in Dallas.
Mr. MATTHEWS. What conclusion did you reach with respect to their behavior?
Inspector KELLEY. Well, I felt that none of the agents could be charged with any dereliction of duty in connection with the assassination.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Did you have any conversation with the driver of the Presidential vehicle?
Inspector KELLEY. No; I did not.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Did you review his conduct?
Inspector KELLEY. I reviewed his conduct.
Mr. MATTHEWS. What did you understand his instructions were?
Inspector KELLEY. Well, his instructions were, to see that the car was driven safely, that the safety of his passengers was paramount, that he was to assure himself that the car was in condition to move properly, just to keep in mind the safety of the passengers.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Did he have any specific instructions that he was to take in anticipation of harm to the President?
Inspector KELLEY. The general instruction, to the agents in a situation where the President is considered to be in danger is to get the President out of there, to evacuate the President
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The Secret Service does not consider it necessary for the Secret Service to stand and fight in any situation. That our primary duty is the security of the President and to remove him from any dangerous situation.
So that generally the instructions to the drivers of the cars are to be prepared to get the President away from any dangerous situation. (Ibid., pp. 327-328)
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A good number of the SS agents on the WHD in Dallas were out until the early hours of November 22, 1963. It has been said that they were drinking alcohol which is in direct violation of the SS rules as we saw in my other series the “Statements That Sink The WC’s Conclusions”. On this point alone, there should have been punishment meted out, but there was none. How could anyone familiar with their actions think there was no dereliction of duty on November 22, 1963? By the way, who was the “we" that decided this?
Kelley testified that the driver of the limousine, William Greer, main responsibility was to evacuate the President from danger, but, again, we see no effort to do this UNTIL AFTER the head shot. Greer's actions, or inactions, were the epitome of dereliction of duty, but nothing ever happened to him. Why? How could Kelley think he performed his job properly?
Kelley testifies that they received information regarding possible attempts on JFK in Miami and Chicago, but nothing was really done with this information. Of course not as it would have pointed toward a conspiracy. He testified that they did look into the possibility of a conspiracy being involved as this interested the SS, but he wasn’t asked what the results were. (Ibid., p. 331)
He is then asked about the FBI.
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Mr. MATTHEWS. At some point you received an indication that the FBI would conduct the conspiracy investigation?
Inspector KELLEY. Yes.
Mr. MATTHEWS. When was that?
Inspector KELLEY. That was shortly after I got down there, probably 2 or 3 days after I got down there. I received information from our headquarters that the Government had indicated that the FBI would be in charge of the investigation of the assassination.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Did you formulate any plan or course of investigation to determine whether, in fact, there was a conspiracy?
Inspector KELLEY. No, except the general plan to find out what happened, what went on.
Mr. MATTHEWS. What did you do with the information that you received from Chicago and Miami?
Inspector KELLEY. I merely read it and, of course, a copy of that information went to the protective research section who, of course, would evaluate it as to what it meant to us, along with myself. (Ibid., pp. 331-332)
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The FBI took over very quickly and of course they found no evidence of a conspiracy. Kelley admits that he did nothing with the information he received from Miami and Chicago beyond reading it. Is this how an honest investigation is conducted? Then he says that they wanted to find out what happened. It sure doesn’t sound like it.
It is then mentioned that he was the SS liaison to the Warren Commission (WC). (Ibid., p. 334) They discussed the comments by Joseph Milteer and Kelley wasn’t even sure if this threat had been told to the Dallas advance team. (Ibid., pp. 335-336) Why would this threat not have been passed on to the Dallas team?
He was asked how the agents could fail to respond over a 7 second span. He gave a bunch of excuses for why no action was taken by any of the agents. (Ibid., p. 337-338) He even claimed that they didn’t have the training that they received at the time of Kelley’s HSCA testimony. It makes one wonder how JFK survived to November 22, 1963.
It is mentioned that the FBI told the people at Klein’s Sporting Goods (KSG) not to talk with anyone else, including the SS, about the alleged rifle order by LHO under his alleged alias “Alek Hidell.” (Ibid., p. 339) Why would the FBI not want the SS or anyone else to see what they supposedly found?
Chaiman Louis Stokes took over and he began questioning him about the reaction of the SS agents.
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Chairman STOKES. So that we understand, so far as you are concerned, with all that you know about their activities the previous evening, in terms of relating it to their performance the following day, you don't find that it in any way affected their performance?
Inspector KELLEY. No, sir. (Ibid., p. 345-346)
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This is ridiculous. There were agents out until the middle of the morning consuming alcohol, but Kelley thinks this had nothing to do with their lack of reaction during the assassination. The only way it could have had no effect was if JFK was meant to be assassinated.
Mr. Kelley provided nothing groundbreaking in his testimony, but did once again illuminated the fact that very little was done in the areas that did not point to LHO being the sole assassin. It is very clear that no honest in-depth investigation ever took place.
There was also nothing but excuses for why the SS agents reacted so poorly during the assassination. Not one agent was fired.
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The United States Secret Service (SS) had a branch that was responsible for evaluating, inspecting and investigating the White House detail and the field offices. The man who was in charge of this area gave testimony before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), and he will be looked at in this post.
The HSCA Says…Thomas J. Kelley.
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Inspector Thomas J. Kelly was one of the men that did this kind of work. He was asked if he was responsible for looking into the performance of the White House detail.
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Mr. MATTHEWS. As an inspector, did you also have occasion to inspect the performance of the White House detail?
Inspector KELLEY. Yes, during an inspection of the White House detail we would review the performance of the detail.
Mr. MATTHEWS. What considerations would you give in evaluating their performance?
Inspector KELLEY. The general conduct of the people on the detail, the carrying out of their assignment, the connection they had with their superiors and their fellow agents.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Would you also have conducted performance reviews of the Protective Research Service?
Inspector KELLEY. Yes. (HSCA III, p. 325)
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This testimony shows that he had the authority to oversee the two areas most connected to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) – the White House detail (WHD) and the Protective Research Service (PRS).
At the time of the assassination, Kelley was in Louisville, Kentucky, when he received a communique from SS Chief
James Rowley's office instructing him to head to Dallas, Texas.
Mr. MATTHEWS. I want to call your attention to November 22, 1963. At that time you were in Louisville, Ky.?
Inspector KELLEY. Yes, sir.
Mr. MATTHEWS. And you received a communique from Chief Rowley?
Inspector KELLEY. Yes, sir.
Mr. MATTHEWS. What were the contents of that message?
Inspector KELLEY. The chiefs office directed me to proceed to Dallas, Tex., to assist Mr. Sorrels, the agent in charge of the Dallas office, to assist him in finding out what had happened at Dallas, what were the events surrounding the assassination, and to coordinate any investigation that might be conducted by the Secret Service concerning the assassination. (Ibid.)
From the beginning Kelley's instructed him to assist Forrest Sorrels in the investigation. Should he not have been placed in charge of the investigation? Or at the very least, oversee the investigation? Yes, is the answer as he would later testify to being in charge in Dallas. I'm not sure why he used this language here.
He is asked if he was instructed to conduct a criminal conspiracy investigation, but he said that he was told to find out what happened and what the SS's role had been in that tragedy. (Ibid.)
He explains what his first actions were upon arriving in Dallas.
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Mr. MATTHEWS. What were your first actions?
Inspector KELLEY. I first met with Mr. Sorrels and we went to the police department where Oswald was being interrogated. I sat in on, I think it was the second interrogation of Oswald.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Now in total you were present for at least four interviews with Lee Harvey Oswald?
Inspector KELLEY. Yes.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Why did you feel it was necessary to be there?
Inspector KELLEY. We were, of course, attempting to find out what had happened, whether he was the assassin, whether he had accomplices, whether there were other problems that the Secret Service might be facing in connection with assassination of other people. It was just generally to find out what had happened. (Ibid.)
They sure didn’t spend much time on finding out if Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) was the assassin and next to no time in determining whether there were any accomplices or not. What was the rush? Why did the case have to be solved within forty-eight hours?
Kelley would tell the HSCA that he felt there were too many people at the interrogations, and that they were conducted under something “less than ideal circumstances.”
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Mr. MATTHEWS. What effect would those circumstances have had upon the interrogation itself?
Inspector KELLEY. In my opinion, it made the interrogation of Oswald by Captain Fritz, who at that time had the primary jurisdiction of handling Oswald, made it very difficult for him to conduct the kind of interrogation that should have been conducted. (Ibid., p. 326)
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We see again that the Dallas Police Department (DPD) had primary, really sole, jurisdiction of the assassination of JFK. The interference of the outside agencies prevented Captain Will Fritz from conducting any real interrogation of LHO. Was that the purpose of flooding the interrogation with people with no jurisdiction?
Kelley testified that “There was a great deal of information coming to us in the Dallas office at that time from the other agencies who had information on Oswald. The FBI had information on him. The agency apparently had some information on him and had furnished it to our headquarters.”
The Dallas police had some information on him and the State Department had some information on him in connection with his trips to Russia. The military was supplying information to our headquarters and it was being provided to me at Dallas.” (Ibid.)
Why would a “loner" have so much information on him at the FBI and CIA (at the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) and Army Intelligence too) and be ready for immediate distribution?
Why did the DPD later deny they had information on LHO prior to the assassination when according to Kelley they did?
From the beginning the focus was on LHO and only LHO as far as the SS were concerned.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Did you request the field offices conduct investigations of suspects who they thought may have a connection with the assassination?
Inspector KELLEY. In connection with the assassination? No; I don't know that we sent any requests, that I sent any requests like that out. You must remember, that there was a coordinated investigation being conducted by the protective research section in Washington and our offices were furnishing us information that came to their attention from other agencies subsequent to the assassination and furnishing that to us at headquarters and to me in Dallas.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Did you request that the Chicago field office conduct an investigation in connection with the rifle found in the Texas School Book Depository?
Inspector KELLEY. Yes; I did.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Who did you talk with in the Chicago office?
Inspector KELLEY. I don't recall now who I talked to, but I talked to someone in the Chicago office and asked them to run this lead out that we had. (Ibid., p. 327)
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Why were no requests sent on anyone else in regards to being involved in the assassination at this early date? How could they realistically know that no one else was involved this fast?
As for the rifle, why was the focus on whom he spoke with instead of what the results were in regards to the rifle allegedly found in the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD)? They just left it here and moved on to another topic.
The topic they moved on to is also of high interest – the issue of the conduct of the SS agents in Dallas.
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Mr. MATTHEWS. To your knowledge, were any of those agents found in violation of the Secret Service rules?
Inspector KELLEY. I don't think they were found in violation of any Secret Service rules warranting any action. It was an area of poor judgment, I presume, but there was no specific violation of any rule.
Of course, the inquiry indicated that their action the night before had nothing, no bearing, on what happened in Dallas.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Did you have occasion to review the performance of the agents at the time of the Kennedy assassination, the shooting episode in Dealey Plaza?
Inspector KELLEY. Yes; the agents that were in Dallas.
Mr. MATTHEWS. What conclusion did you reach with respect to their behavior?
Inspector KELLEY. Well, I felt that none of the agents could be charged with any dereliction of duty in connection with the assassination.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Did you have any conversation with the driver of the Presidential vehicle?
Inspector KELLEY. No; I did not.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Did you review his conduct?
Inspector KELLEY. I reviewed his conduct.
Mr. MATTHEWS. What did you understand his instructions were?
Inspector KELLEY. Well, his instructions were, to see that the car was driven safely, that the safety of his passengers was paramount, that he was to assure himself that the car was in condition to move properly, just to keep in mind the safety of the passengers.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Did he have any specific instructions that he was to take in anticipation of harm to the President?
Inspector KELLEY. The general instruction, to the agents in a situation where the President is considered to be in danger is to get the President out of there, to evacuate the President
.
The Secret Service does not consider it necessary for the Secret Service to stand and fight in any situation. That our primary duty is the security of the President and to remove him from any dangerous situation.
So that generally the instructions to the drivers of the cars are to be prepared to get the President away from any dangerous situation. (Ibid., pp. 327-328)
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A good number of the SS agents on the WHD in Dallas were out until the early hours of November 22, 1963. It has been said that they were drinking alcohol which is in direct violation of the SS rules as we saw in my other series the “Statements That Sink The WC’s Conclusions”. On this point alone, there should have been punishment meted out, but there was none. How could anyone familiar with their actions think there was no dereliction of duty on November 22, 1963? By the way, who was the “we" that decided this?
Kelley testified that the driver of the limousine, William Greer, main responsibility was to evacuate the President from danger, but, again, we see no effort to do this UNTIL AFTER the head shot. Greer's actions, or inactions, were the epitome of dereliction of duty, but nothing ever happened to him. Why? How could Kelley think he performed his job properly?
Kelley testifies that they received information regarding possible attempts on JFK in Miami and Chicago, but nothing was really done with this information. Of course not as it would have pointed toward a conspiracy. He testified that they did look into the possibility of a conspiracy being involved as this interested the SS, but he wasn’t asked what the results were. (Ibid., p. 331)
He is then asked about the FBI.
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Mr. MATTHEWS. At some point you received an indication that the FBI would conduct the conspiracy investigation?
Inspector KELLEY. Yes.
Mr. MATTHEWS. When was that?
Inspector KELLEY. That was shortly after I got down there, probably 2 or 3 days after I got down there. I received information from our headquarters that the Government had indicated that the FBI would be in charge of the investigation of the assassination.
Mr. MATTHEWS. Did you formulate any plan or course of investigation to determine whether, in fact, there was a conspiracy?
Inspector KELLEY. No, except the general plan to find out what happened, what went on.
Mr. MATTHEWS. What did you do with the information that you received from Chicago and Miami?
Inspector KELLEY. I merely read it and, of course, a copy of that information went to the protective research section who, of course, would evaluate it as to what it meant to us, along with myself. (Ibid., pp. 331-332)
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The FBI took over very quickly and of course they found no evidence of a conspiracy. Kelley admits that he did nothing with the information he received from Miami and Chicago beyond reading it. Is this how an honest investigation is conducted? Then he says that they wanted to find out what happened. It sure doesn’t sound like it.
It is then mentioned that he was the SS liaison to the Warren Commission (WC). (Ibid., p. 334) They discussed the comments by Joseph Milteer and Kelley wasn’t even sure if this threat had been told to the Dallas advance team. (Ibid., pp. 335-336) Why would this threat not have been passed on to the Dallas team?
He was asked how the agents could fail to respond over a 7 second span. He gave a bunch of excuses for why no action was taken by any of the agents. (Ibid., p. 337-338) He even claimed that they didn’t have the training that they received at the time of Kelley’s HSCA testimony. It makes one wonder how JFK survived to November 22, 1963.
It is mentioned that the FBI told the people at Klein’s Sporting Goods (KSG) not to talk with anyone else, including the SS, about the alleged rifle order by LHO under his alleged alias “Alek Hidell.” (Ibid., p. 339) Why would the FBI not want the SS or anyone else to see what they supposedly found?
Chaiman Louis Stokes took over and he began questioning him about the reaction of the SS agents.
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Chairman STOKES. So that we understand, so far as you are concerned, with all that you know about their activities the previous evening, in terms of relating it to their performance the following day, you don't find that it in any way affected their performance?
Inspector KELLEY. No, sir. (Ibid., p. 345-346)
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This is ridiculous. There were agents out until the middle of the morning consuming alcohol, but Kelley thinks this had nothing to do with their lack of reaction during the assassination. The only way it could have had no effect was if JFK was meant to be assassinated.
Mr. Kelley provided nothing groundbreaking in his testimony, but did once again illuminated the fact that very little was done in the areas that did not point to LHO being the sole assassin. It is very clear that no honest in-depth investigation ever took place.
There was also nothing but excuses for why the SS agents reacted so poorly during the assassination. Not one agent was fired.