JFK’s Assassination Transformed Secret Service into Heavy-Weight Agency

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When JFK was assassinated, the Secret Service was in store for major changes. The Warren Commission, which was formed to investigate the Nov. 22 shooting, found what it called “certain shortcomings and lapses from high standards which the Commission believes should prevail in the field of Presidential protection.” The ill-prepared Secret Service,…

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FBI, CIA Could Have Prevented Assassination of JFK Had They Heeded Warnings

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  The FBI and CIA missed opportunities to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by not taking seriously enough threats from Lee Harvey Oswald, according to Philip Shenon’s new book, “A Cruel and Shocking Act,” reports the Orland Sentinel. Days before the assassination, the president’s administration found a threatening note addressed…

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