Jefferson, I'd make a slight edit to your appraisal of Bolden's framing:
The Secret Service didn't frame him for challenging the Lone Gunman theory. They framed him to keep him from testifying to the Warren Commission about the previous assassination attempt on November 2nd 1963, by a four-man Cuban "dissident" squad in Chicago.
"In 1963, Bolden, believing the earlier attempt on JFK's life was important evidence, made persistent complaints which led to the arrest of alleged assailants and confiscation of weapons in early November of 1963, just three weeks prior to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. Bolden, who was honored last year with the "Profile in Courage" award by CAPA (Citizens Against Political Assassinations), attempted to testify before the Warren Commission in 1964 but was immediately silenced on false charges and sent to prison as part of the post-assassination cover-up."
Note that the warming, which came from an FBI informant known only as "Lee," specified the date, and that four Cubans would be part of the hit team.
"Bolden claimed that in October, 1963, the Chicago Secret Service office received a teletype from the Federal Bureau of Investigation warning that an attempt would be made to kill President John F. Kennedy by a four-man Cuban hit squad when he visited the city on 2nd November. Armed with high-powered rifles, the men from "a dissident Cuban group". According to investigative journalist Edwin Black, the Secret Service arrested two suspects, however, they were eventually released.
"Abraham Bolden later discovered that this information was being kept from the Warren Commission. When he complained about this he was warned "to keep his mouth shut". Bolden decided to travel to Washington where he telephoned Warren Commission Counsel J. Lee Rankin. Bolden was arrested and taken back to Chicago where he was charged with discussing a bribe with two known counterfeiters. He was eventually found guilty of accepting a bribe and spent six years in prison. When he tried to draw attention to his case, he was placed in solitary confinement.
"Sam DeStefano, one of the men who accused Bolden of this crime, was murdered in 1973. DeStefano was close to Sam Giancana, Charles Nicoletti and Richard Cain. It is believed that Cain murdered DeStefano. Soon afterwards, Cain himself was murdered.
"Lamar Waldron claims in his book, Ultimate Sacrifice, that according to a Central Intelligence Agency memo, mobsters in Chicago were involved in framing Bolden on the bribery charges."
It is in my estimation another very important side story to address the amount of information still available to add to the mosaic being created to reveal a much more intact picture of what actually happened.
I'm confident more will come out. See below thanks to John F. Davies USMC ret
May I ask, what specifically is it that you think will also come out?
Is it the Secret Service changing the motorcade route the day of the assassination? Is it the assignment of a different driver for the presidential limo, one who would slow down the limo when the shots qere fired, which is the exact opposite of what SS limo drivers are taught to do? Is it the SS classifying the Chicago attempt, thereby hiding the need for greater security in future public appearances, while also hiding an almost identical setup as to what occurred in Dallas, with ex-Marine Oswald and "dissident" Cuban shooters with high-powered rifles overlooking the motorcade route?
The involvement of the Secret Serice must be revealed, as well as that of the Pentagon, the FBI, and of course the CIA, if we are ever to learn the WHOLE truth, amd uncover the depth amd breadth of the conspiracy to kill the president.
I'm not trying to evade answering but the complexity of the events surrounding the Murder of JFK in Dallas to understate these issues are complicated to begin with.
The secret government, the CIA, NSA, Naval Intelligence along with all other intelligence branches of all the military services, Defense Intelligence, and the FBI have the advantage of putting out misinformation at will if they so choose.
The complexity of the official government records system does however tend to work in the favor of all those who research the event. While I hesitate to name specific examples one method being used by researchers they rely on is finding information about the event then tracing of the trail left by documents from origin to their current location. This provides a greater understanding of the dots to be connected. This my view of a technique I'm sure there are others I'm sure.
The more record data is searched the more information can be found. The plot in Chicago is a great example of what happens. Researcher learns something that revelation is seen and others very likely compare it to other data, both vetted and non vetted. The results often reveal previously unknown connections and so it goes around again.
The papers of former presidents and vice presidents, secretaries of state and high ranking officials of committees , select government agencies and intelligence community may hold vast amounts of date pertinent to answering the many questions that still exist.
An example is Ken Hughes, book Chasing Shadows although. there are other that might represent my take better, but time and space limits my effort here.
However the inside look at there at relationships between LBJ, Nixon and Kissinger reveal the deep deceptions the government was involved in shortly after the demise of JFK.
Another example,Lock Johnson's Season of Inquiry Revised reveals the stonewalling both the Church and Pike committees encountered during their investigations in including the information from the Rockefeller Commission, i. e Pages 35 -37 delay of providing documents required, April 23 Church speculated the Rockefeller Commission was delaying the delivery of requested documents.
Church discussed the issues of time, the lax response by his commission for documents from the Rockefeller was slowing the work of his committee.
Question has the records of the Rockefeller committee been located and have they been reviewed.
This stuff get researched and more leads found another investigation.
How about this one what do you know about it?
Nelson Rockefeller's wiki list his career. Especially Mid-career 1940 - 1958. 1940 -to spring of 1943 he worked in the new position of the Coordinator of Inter American Affairs, CIAA, in the Office of the Coordinator of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs OCIAA. Interested in our southern neighbors and worked closely with The State Department, this was before CIA.
In 1944 President Roosevelt appointed Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs. In 1945 he became involved in the fledgling United Nations, where he successfully lobbied for inclusion of Latin American states and the creation of regional pacts within the framework of the UN. This caused problems and Truman fired Rockefeller.
My inclination is Rockefeller was a threat to those planning the new CIA.
The key is things change very rapidly during this time. Changes came quickly. And represented drastic changes in American Policy in south and central America as CIA came on line. From building more successful governments in South and Central America to intervention and toppling successful government there for the benefit of American Corporations. All under the guise of communist threats to American interests.
What does this all have to do with the murder of JFK?
In my opinion it signals the hijacking of American foreign policy by CIA. JFK intended to do the very same thing, except as president and it got him killed.
I agree with your estimate: Kennedy wanted to change US foreign policy, which the CIA definitely would have considered "hijacking" from their efforts to install military dictatorships that they could control, while also bringing in funds to the US military-industrial complex, as clearly happened in Iran and Iraq, and all through the Cold War, especially in Vietnam and the adjacent Southeast Asia countries.
I do hope that these threads of details do get revealed. What's most interesting this past week is Queen Intelligence Idiot, Tulsi Gabbard, who fed classified documents into an AI program to determine which documents should be released! Not only should that get her fired, and/or charged with illegal release of classified information, chances are that once dumped into an AI program, those files will all find their way into the public mainstream, sooner or later.
There are many who to this day question Mr. Bolden's credibility as a source, and say there is no evidence to support his claims.
In fact, much of what he has stated is indeed backed up by evidence.
In previous statements, Abraham Bolden revealed that there was a great amount of laxity and unprofessional behavior among the Secret Service detail when he came aboard. The fact that the agents had been drinking in a nightclub on 21 November ( In violation of Secret Service regs.), is one glaring example of this.
Part of it was attributable to JFK himself, who enjoyed being in a crowd and found security kept him from pressing the flesh.
As Bolden has also stated, there were Secret Service agents on the detail who expressed resentment towards President Kennedy, including his womanizing.
His claim that the JFK limousine was immediately sent to the Ford plant in Michigan has also been proven true. A most blatant case of destruction of evidence.
Finally, in his book "Reclaiming History" the late Warren Commission defender Vincent Bugliosi, who also disputed Bolden's claims of a plot, did acknowledge that there was indeed a threat against President Kennedy's life in Chicago from one Charles Arthur Vallee, who was himself apprehended by pure luck.
While there are some parts of Mr. Bolden's testimony which could be debatable, there are indeed many things he has said which are confirmed by credible evidence.
Jefferson, I'd make a slight edit to your appraisal of Bolden's framing:
The Secret Service didn't frame him for challenging the Lone Gunman theory. They framed him to keep him from testifying to the Warren Commission about the previous assassination attempt on November 2nd 1963, by a four-man Cuban "dissident" squad in Chicago.
"In 1963, Bolden, believing the earlier attempt on JFK's life was important evidence, made persistent complaints which led to the arrest of alleged assailants and confiscation of weapons in early November of 1963, just three weeks prior to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. Bolden, who was honored last year with the "Profile in Courage" award by CAPA (Citizens Against Political Assassinations), attempted to testify before the Warren Commission in 1964 but was immediately silenced on false charges and sent to prison as part of the post-assassination cover-up."
From:
https://www.cbs42.com/business/press-releases/cision/20250523LA95148/jfks-secret-service-agent-abraham-bolden-first-african-american-on-white-house-detail-finally-testifies-before-jfk-assassination-congressional-committee-receives-apology-from-committee-chair-re/
Note that the warming, which came from an FBI informant known only as "Lee," specified the date, and that four Cubans would be part of the hit team.
"Bolden claimed that in October, 1963, the Chicago Secret Service office received a teletype from the Federal Bureau of Investigation warning that an attempt would be made to kill President John F. Kennedy by a four-man Cuban hit squad when he visited the city on 2nd November. Armed with high-powered rifles, the men from "a dissident Cuban group". According to investigative journalist Edwin Black, the Secret Service arrested two suspects, however, they were eventually released.
"Abraham Bolden later discovered that this information was being kept from the Warren Commission. When he complained about this he was warned "to keep his mouth shut". Bolden decided to travel to Washington where he telephoned Warren Commission Counsel J. Lee Rankin. Bolden was arrested and taken back to Chicago where he was charged with discussing a bribe with two known counterfeiters. He was eventually found guilty of accepting a bribe and spent six years in prison. When he tried to draw attention to his case, he was placed in solitary confinement.
"Sam DeStefano, one of the men who accused Bolden of this crime, was murdered in 1973. DeStefano was close to Sam Giancana, Charles Nicoletti and Richard Cain. It is believed that Cain murdered DeStefano. Soon afterwards, Cain himself was murdered.
"Lamar Waldron claims in his book, Ultimate Sacrifice, that according to a Central Intelligence Agency memo, mobsters in Chicago were involved in framing Bolden on the bribery charges."
From:
https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbolden.htm
So the two men who testified against Bolden, both connected to the Chicago mob, were both in turn murdered to keep them quiet as well.
Bolden is indeed lucky to have escaped with his life, and should be honored for trying to speak the truth.
By the way, it would be great to see that CIA memo where they admitted the Mob was involved in framing Bolden.
I know this story myself.
It is in my estimation another very important side story to address the amount of information still available to add to the mosaic being created to reveal a much more intact picture of what actually happened.
I'm confident more will come out. See below thanks to John F. Davies USMC ret
May I ask, what specifically is it that you think will also come out?
Is it the Secret Service changing the motorcade route the day of the assassination? Is it the assignment of a different driver for the presidential limo, one who would slow down the limo when the shots qere fired, which is the exact opposite of what SS limo drivers are taught to do? Is it the SS classifying the Chicago attempt, thereby hiding the need for greater security in future public appearances, while also hiding an almost identical setup as to what occurred in Dallas, with ex-Marine Oswald and "dissident" Cuban shooters with high-powered rifles overlooking the motorcade route?
The involvement of the Secret Serice must be revealed, as well as that of the Pentagon, the FBI, and of course the CIA, if we are ever to learn the WHOLE truth, amd uncover the depth amd breadth of the conspiracy to kill the president.
I'm not trying to evade answering but the complexity of the events surrounding the Murder of JFK in Dallas to understate these issues are complicated to begin with.
The secret government, the CIA, NSA, Naval Intelligence along with all other intelligence branches of all the military services, Defense Intelligence, and the FBI have the advantage of putting out misinformation at will if they so choose.
The complexity of the official government records system does however tend to work in the favor of all those who research the event. While I hesitate to name specific examples one method being used by researchers they rely on is finding information about the event then tracing of the trail left by documents from origin to their current location. This provides a greater understanding of the dots to be connected. This my view of a technique I'm sure there are others I'm sure.
The more record data is searched the more information can be found. The plot in Chicago is a great example of what happens. Researcher learns something that revelation is seen and others very likely compare it to other data, both vetted and non vetted. The results often reveal previously unknown connections and so it goes around again.
The papers of former presidents and vice presidents, secretaries of state and high ranking officials of committees , select government agencies and intelligence community may hold vast amounts of date pertinent to answering the many questions that still exist.
An example is Ken Hughes, book Chasing Shadows although. there are other that might represent my take better, but time and space limits my effort here.
However the inside look at there at relationships between LBJ, Nixon and Kissinger reveal the deep deceptions the government was involved in shortly after the demise of JFK.
Another example,Lock Johnson's Season of Inquiry Revised reveals the stonewalling both the Church and Pike committees encountered during their investigations in including the information from the Rockefeller Commission, i. e Pages 35 -37 delay of providing documents required, April 23 Church speculated the Rockefeller Commission was delaying the delivery of requested documents.
Church discussed the issues of time, the lax response by his commission for documents from the Rockefeller was slowing the work of his committee.
Question has the records of the Rockefeller committee been located and have they been reviewed.
This stuff get researched and more leads found another investigation.
How about this one what do you know about it?
Nelson Rockefeller's wiki list his career. Especially Mid-career 1940 - 1958. 1940 -to spring of 1943 he worked in the new position of the Coordinator of Inter American Affairs, CIAA, in the Office of the Coordinator of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs OCIAA. Interested in our southern neighbors and worked closely with The State Department, this was before CIA.
In 1944 President Roosevelt appointed Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs. In 1945 he became involved in the fledgling United Nations, where he successfully lobbied for inclusion of Latin American states and the creation of regional pacts within the framework of the UN. This caused problems and Truman fired Rockefeller.
My inclination is Rockefeller was a threat to those planning the new CIA.
The key is things change very rapidly during this time. Changes came quickly. And represented drastic changes in American Policy in south and central America as CIA came on line. From building more successful governments in South and Central America to intervention and toppling successful government there for the benefit of American Corporations. All under the guise of communist threats to American interests.
What does this all have to do with the murder of JFK?
In my opinion it signals the hijacking of American foreign policy by CIA. JFK intended to do the very same thing, except as president and it got him killed.
I agree with your estimate: Kennedy wanted to change US foreign policy, which the CIA definitely would have considered "hijacking" from their efforts to install military dictatorships that they could control, while also bringing in funds to the US military-industrial complex, as clearly happened in Iran and Iraq, and all through the Cold War, especially in Vietnam and the adjacent Southeast Asia countries.
I do hope that these threads of details do get revealed. What's most interesting this past week is Queen Intelligence Idiot, Tulsi Gabbard, who fed classified documents into an AI program to determine which documents should be released! Not only should that get her fired, and/or charged with illegal release of classified information, chances are that once dumped into an AI program, those files will all find their way into the public mainstream, sooner or later.
Maybe she did us all a "yuge" favor.
He's lucky they didn't kill him.
There are many who to this day question Mr. Bolden's credibility as a source, and say there is no evidence to support his claims.
In fact, much of what he has stated is indeed backed up by evidence.
In previous statements, Abraham Bolden revealed that there was a great amount of laxity and unprofessional behavior among the Secret Service detail when he came aboard. The fact that the agents had been drinking in a nightclub on 21 November ( In violation of Secret Service regs.), is one glaring example of this.
Part of it was attributable to JFK himself, who enjoyed being in a crowd and found security kept him from pressing the flesh.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/16/jfk-told-secret-service-to-keep-its-distance-on-assassination-day/
As Bolden has also stated, there were Secret Service agents on the detail who expressed resentment towards President Kennedy, including his womanizing.
https://www.historyonthenet.com/jfk-affairs
His claim that the JFK limousine was immediately sent to the Ford plant in Michigan has also been proven true. A most blatant case of destruction of evidence.
https://countylocalnews.com/breaking/2025/03/19/jfk-limo-evidence-erased-white-house-garage-cover-up-exposed/
Finally, in his book "Reclaiming History" the late Warren Commission defender Vincent Bugliosi, who also disputed Bolden's claims of a plot, did acknowledge that there was indeed a threat against President Kennedy's life in Chicago from one Charles Arthur Vallee, who was himself apprehended by pure luck.
( Scroll halfway down page.)
https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/31473-how-do-wc-apologists-deal-with-secret-service-whistleblower-abraham-bolden/page/5/
While there are some parts of Mr. Bolden's testimony which could be debatable, there are indeed many things he has said which are confirmed by credible evidence.