Vince Palamara's new book, The Plot to Kill President Kennedy in Chicago and other Traces of Conspiracy Leading to the Assassination of JFK, is an epic failure. Despite the enticing title, Palamara does not provide any evidence of a plot in Chicago in November 1963.
In May 2023, Palamara received a phone call from somebody who had some information on the JFK assassination. This person linked Palamara with former Secret Service agent Nemo Ciochina, who had some explosive information.
Ciochina told Palamara that the real conspiracy against JFK was not in Texas, but in Chicago and that he should focus on a man by the name of Lloyd John Wilson. Palamara was sworn to secrecy, but Ciochina died in June 2023 and that meant that he was now free to spill the beans.
Palamara says that he "hit pay dirt" with Lloyd John Wilson, and that the documents he has published in his book "have never been published before and the name Lloyd John Wilson is unknown to John Q. Citizen, let alone the majority of the research community."
The reason that Wilson's name is largely unknown to the research community is that no one takes his story seriously. The documents that Palamara has published in his book are readily available on the Mary Ferrell website, and indeed all of these documents were part of the Warren Commission's investigation.
The Secret Service learnt of Wilson, but under the alias of Dwight Allen Wilson, in September `1963:
Wilson then wrote a statement about his 'threat': The case was then considered closed.
Does anybody really believe that Wilson paid Lee Harvey Oswald $1,000 at a wrestling match in San Francisco to kill Kennedy?
Palamara concludes his chapter on Wilson saying, "it is a damn shame that the case against Wilson and his possible connection to Oswald and the assassination was dropped and covered up."
But who in their right mind thinks that there really is a connection between Oswald and Wilson?
You can read all of the various documents on Lloyd John Wilson and come up with your own conclusion. This is hardly news, and it is indeed strange that Palamara thinks the Wilson story has legs. Mr. Palamara got a bum steer, unfortunately.
I will be going over the rest of Mr. Palamara's book in future posts.
He has not shown any evidence of a plot against JFK in Chicago. Part of the problem is that he doesn't differentiate between plots and threats.
In regard to Mr. Wilson, Palamara got a bum steer.
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