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Secret Service agents guard President George W. Bush in 2008. The Kennedy assassination spotlighted the bravery of two Secret Service agents. First, an agent protecting Mrs. Kennedy, Clint Hill, was riding in the car directly behind the presidential limousine when the attack began. While the shooting continued, Hill leaped from the running ...
Timothy J. McCarthy (born June 20, 1949) is an American retired police officer and special agent of the U.S. Secret Service.He is best known for defending then-president Ronald Reagan during the assassination attempt on Reagan's life on March 30, 1981, in Washington, D.C.
Secret Service ends detail for George H.W. Bush after nearly 40 years of protecting the former president.
The Secret Service had extensively screened those attending the president's speech, but allowed an unscreened group to stand within 15 ft (4.5 m) of him, behind a rope line. [ 13 ] : 80–81, 225 The agency uses multiple layers of protection.
On February 7, 2001, while Bush was in the residence area of the White House, Robert W. Pickett, standing outside the perimeter fence, discharged a number of shots from a Taurus .38 Special revolver "in the general direction" of the White House. He was shot in the knee by a United States Secret Service agent and arrested.
George W. Bush's answers in a newly declassified 9/11 Commission interview helped him escape blame and win reelection. But they don't add up.
In the Line of Fire is a 1993 American political action thriller film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich and Rene Russo. [4] Written by Jeff Maguire, the film is about a disillusioned and obsessed former CIA agent who plans to assassinate the President of the United States and the Secret Service agent who is tracking him.
Author and former Secret Service Officer Gary J. Byrne recalls being "posted directly outside President Clinton's Oval Office" and claims to have witnessed the personal and political dysfunction ...