All in the Family?
What many conspiracy theorists fail to consider in discussions of evidence disappearance and alteration is the fact that much of the evidence that went missing was in the control of the Kennedy family, specifically Robert Kennedy.
Certainly, a desire to keep Kennedy’s death from becoming sensationalized may have played a part in the family’s participation in the cover-up. However, there is a possible additional reason.
A researcher friend of mine who supports the Donahue theory discovered a possible family connection between George Hickey and John F. Kennedy.
JFK’s paternal grandmother was Mary Augusta Hickey (1857-1923) (See http://www.archives.com/genealogy/president-kennedy.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Kennedy_family)
Could JFK and George Hickey have been related?
If there is a family connection (JFK and Hickey being second cousins or some such), it certainly would give more reason for the Kennedy family’s participation in the cover-up. It would also explain how Hickey, four months new to the Secret Service, was immediately assigned to the Presidential detail.
In a Baltimore Sun article dated August 22, 1996 by Scott Higham (http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1996-08-22/news/1996235048_1_hickey-mortal-error-dealey-plaza) it states, “Kennedy cleared the way for Hickey to be assigned to the president's personal protection detail in July 1963, four months before the slaying in Dallas. Hickey was 40 at the time.”
According to the present day policies, per the Secret Service website at http://www.secretservice.gov/join/careers_agents.shtml, applicants to become Special Agents must:
Be at least 21 years of age at time of application and younger than 37 at the time of receipt of a conditional offer of employment to continue in the application process. Applicants with veterans’ preference must be at least 21 years of age and younger than 40 at the time of receipt of a conditional offer of employment to continue in the application process.
Hickey, who apparently had veteran’s status, was not “younger than 40,” he was 40. And Kennedy “cleared the way” for Hickey to be assigned to his detail.
A family connection between JFK and George Hickey is a very interesting possibility. Yet even without a family connection, national embarrassment might have been enough of a reason to instigate the cover-up.
What many conspiracy theorists fail to consider in discussions of evidence disappearance and alteration is the fact that much of the evidence that went missing was in the control of the Kennedy family, specifically Robert Kennedy.
Certainly, a desire to keep Kennedy’s death from becoming sensationalized may have played a part in the family’s participation in the cover-up. However, there is a possible additional reason.
A researcher friend of mine who supports the Donahue theory discovered a possible family connection between George Hickey and John F. Kennedy.
JFK’s paternal grandmother was Mary Augusta Hickey (1857-1923) (See http://www.archives.com/genealogy/president-kennedy.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Kennedy_family)
Could JFK and George Hickey have been related?
If there is a family connection (JFK and Hickey being second cousins or some such), it certainly would give more reason for the Kennedy family’s participation in the cover-up. It would also explain how Hickey, four months new to the Secret Service, was immediately assigned to the Presidential detail.
In a Baltimore Sun article dated August 22, 1996 by Scott Higham (http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1996-08-22/news/1996235048_1_hickey-mortal-error-dealey-plaza) it states, “Kennedy cleared the way for Hickey to be assigned to the president's personal protection detail in July 1963, four months before the slaying in Dallas. Hickey was 40 at the time.”
According to the present day policies, per the Secret Service website at http://www.secretservice.gov/join/careers_agents.shtml, applicants to become Special Agents must:
Be at least 21 years of age at time of application and younger than 37 at the time of receipt of a conditional offer of employment to continue in the application process. Applicants with veterans’ preference must be at least 21 years of age and younger than 40 at the time of receipt of a conditional offer of employment to continue in the application process.
Hickey, who apparently had veteran’s status, was not “younger than 40,” he was 40. And Kennedy “cleared the way” for Hickey to be assigned to his detail.
A family connection between JFK and George Hickey is a very interesting possibility. Yet even without a family connection, national embarrassment might have been enough of a reason to instigate the cover-up.
