Could the Secret
Service Have Saved J.F.K.?
As the agents who guard the president come
under renewed scrutiny, vanityfair.com revisits the entrenched culture of the
Secret Service a half century ago and reexamines the actions of John F.
Kennedy’s security detail on that fateful day in Dallas.
As agent John
Norris explained in Bill Sloan’s book J.F.K.: Breaking the Silence and
in an interview for Vincent Michael Palamara’s book Survivor’s Guilt: The
Secret Service and the Failure to Protect President Kennedy: “Except for
George Hickey and Clint Hill, [many of the others] just basically sat there
with their thumbs up their butts while the president was gunned down in front
of them.”
Although some
in his security force subtly suggested that Kennedy had brought trouble on
himself by his purported aversion to the running boards or by plunging into
crowds without any notice, others have refused to blame the victim. Agent
Gerald Behn, the head of the White House detail, who was not in Dallas that
day, told one writer, “I don’t remember Kennedy ever saying that he didn’t want
anybody on the back of his car.”
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