Dr. Burkley

FROM GEN. BURKLEY'S ORAL HISTORY AT THE JFK LIBRARY:

BURKLEY PROTESTED HIS POSITION:

McHUGH: Were you able to convey strongly to the Secret Service, at the
time, that you felt that they were making a mistake when you were
assigned to another vehicle?

BURKLEY: As probably Mrs. Lincoln has mentioned in her recording, this
was brought to their attention very strongly at the foot of the
stairway from the airplane.

BURKLEY: When we were in Fort Worth, Mrs. Lincoln [Evelyn N. Lincoln]
and I were in the second car in the motorcade. When we arrived in
Dallas the President got off one end of the plane. Mrs. Lincoln and I
got off the other end of the plane, and when we got to the bottom of
the stairs the motorcade was already in motion and I complained to the
Secret Service that I should be either in the follow-up car or the
lead car.

McHUGH: Who did you speak to at that time?

BURKLEY: Members of the Secret Service. And they said it couldn’t be
arranged, that
the politicians had gotten in that group of cars, that everyone wanted
to be
in those cars, and also the motorcade was in action. We, therefore,
were
put in a so-called VIP vehicle. When the assassination occurred, I got
to the scene by
securing a car through one of the Secret Service,


BURKLEY CLAIMS SS/MILITARY/JOHNSON TOOK AWAY POSITIONS IN LEAD CAR,
FOLLOW-UP TO SS CAR

BURKLEY:....the people who wanted to get in those cars were such that
they overruled other people, and they simply crawled into them.


'LOCAL POLITICAL REPRESENTATIVE" ASSIGNED SEATS

McHUGH: Was it the Secret Service who were primarily responsible for
assigning
you your seat in the motorcade on any given occasion?

BURKLEY: Not necessarily. It would have been the local political
representative who was arranging this particular trip.


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