Original clip found in a series of film clips from NBC. Vince Palamara made a partial transcript. The sound is very poor. You can see a large microphone is placed on a table in front of the man. His name is Rocky Stone.
“They had nothing but praise for President Kennedy and
his manner in which he felt about the Secret Service men. They said that by far
he was more considerate of them and their feelings than any of the previous
presidents they had been taking care of. They said that he always went by their
decisions to protect him. That he was always considerate of their (sic) fact
that he never tried to do anything that they thought was against the rules in
which to protect him. They stated that President Kennedy referred to them as
‘his boys’ and that at times when there were large crowds of people that the
president always looked around to see where ‘his boys’ was (sic) at so, at a
moment’s notice, they were able to be at his side and get him out of the crowds
as he possibly could be in danger. In the moments after, they said the Secret
Service was very, very short of money and that even some of the agents had to
buy the two-way radios they used out of their own pocket and they did need more
money to operate on to hire more men in order to be successful in protecting
the president out of state [presumably Washington, D.C.]. ”
Very poor audio- transcript based on multiple
playbacks.
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