Today we will be continuing our series on the dark and sordid history of the Clinton administration for the young and perpetually uninformed. This is one of the most difficult cases to provide a fair examination given that it was one of the least reported on and investigated at the time. The information from these witnesses are very difficult to corroborate and the reader should probably take this into account as one attempts to digest this terrible tale. However, this single incident sets off a chain of events that almost brings down Bill Clinton’s presidency and therefore must be addressed.
The man in this picture is named Jerry Parks. Mr. Parks was reportedly watching television on July 21st, 1993 when breaking news stated that White House Deputy Counsel Vince Foster had died the previous day from a gunshot wound to the head. Further details revealed that Foster’s body was found just outside of Washington D.C. in Fort Marcy Park. Jerry Parks reportedly turned to his son during this news report and told him, “I am a dead man.”
According to family accounts, Jerry Parks was a “nervous wreck” over the next few months. He began carrying a sidearm with him almost everywhere that he went and drove evasively in order to avoid being followed. Mr. Parks had been the security chief for the Clinton-Gore campaign headquarters in Little Rock the previous year. He reportedly told his family that Bill Clinton was “cleaning house” and that he was “next on the list.”
Jerry Parks had a son named Gary who described a long and complicated history between Vince Foster and his father. Vince Foster had reportedly approached Mr. Parks years ago asking him to carry out surveillance missions for Hillary Clinton. All the way back in 1981, Governor Bill Clinton had lost his reelection bid. His rising star was beginning to fall for a brief period of time and rumors of his infidelity had begun to surface. According to Gary Parks, Hillary Clinton had approached Vince Foster and asked him to gather evidence against her husband which she could use to eventually divorce him. According to Jerry’s wife, her husband carried out sensitive assignments for Hillary Clinton’s inner circle for almost a decade. Gary reported that he even accompanied his father on a few of his missions. He describes them both using long-armed cameras to gather incriminating evidence while Governor Clinton was engaging in various infidelities.
Jerry Parks rarely had any communications with Vince Foster after Bill Clinton’s inauguration, but he did reportedly receive a phone call in mid-July of 1993 from Mr. Foster stating that Hillary had become anxious about any files in Jerry’s possession that could do real political damage to the President and herself. Jerry Parks reassured him over the phone that the data he collected was secure. Just a couple of weeks later, Mr. Parks home was burglarized by sophisticated criminals. Phone lines were cut and alarm systems were turned off. The Parks family states that the incriminating files on President Clinton went missing.
On September 23, 1993, as Jerry Parks was driving towards his Little Rock home along Chenal Parkway, a white Chevy Caprice with two men inside pulled up beside him and showered Jerry’s car and his 320 pound hulking frame with semiautomatic gunfire. After the target car slowly came to a halt, one of the men emerged from the mysterious vehicle and fired two 9-mm rounds into the chest of Jerry Parks then quickly sped away. Several bystanders witnessed the murder in real time but the killers were never found.
Half way across the country, Pentagon Public Affairs employee Linda Tripp would eventually learn about the brutal assassination of Jerry Parks… and this would lead to a chain of events that would change Bill and Hillary Clinton’s legacy in our nation’s capital forever.
