This was done so they would not be hit by the assassins bullet.
Marcia Roberts has written: 'Looking back and seeing the future' -- subject(s): History, Secret service, United States, United States. Secret Service 'Reading Shakespeare'
President Teddy Roosevelt, beginning in 1902. Due to the assassination of President McKinley, Congress asked the Secret Service to guard the President.
The Mossad, Israel's secret service agency, was responsible for the assassination of a Hamas militant in Dubai in 2010. (Fascinating! Apparently, 'Luvhistory2010' is present at the classified conferences of Israel's secret service agency, and has free and unfettered access to its policy planning and deliberations. One is led to wonder how her Mossad colleagues feel about her blabbing that information around on the internet.)
The mistakes learned was not to allow the president to travel in a open car again.
It was known that the assassination was carried out by members of the Black Hand - a Serbian terrorist organization. The Austrian government believed that the terrorists were supported by the Serbian secret service.
Secret Service agent who took a bullet in the abdomen while blocking President Reagen during an assassination attempt.
The sole purpose of the Secret Service agents are to protect the president. Whoever protects them is irrelevant and quite frankly not needed. People don't plan assassination to kill Secret Service agents, because of how quick people can act. With only 1 (maybe 2) shot, you need to kill the most important figure there, which is usually the president.
There was an assassination attempt on Truman which involved a gun. This incident caused Truman to be more aware of the importance of the Secret Service in the presidential homes.
That's a secret.
The cast of For Her - 1912 includes: Harry Beaumont as Jack Hanley Bigelow Cooper as Stoll - the Secret Service Man George Lessey as Roberts - the Private Detective Charles Ogle as John Hart Richard Ridgely as Chief of the Secret Service
The Secret Service investigates counterfeiting.
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