By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The lion’s share of Secret Service agents on protective details go an entire career without getting shot. Then there’s one of the Secret Service agents who protects Nancy Reagan. The Associated Press reports that the agent accidentally shot himself in the hip Friday at the Ventura County, Calif. Sheriff’s Department shooting…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ronald Kessler of Newmax.com writes that Secret Service agents on President Reagan’s detail say the 40th president “was sharp until several years after he left the presidency”, contrary to what son Ron wrote in his latest book. “We had a hundred twenty agents on his detail, and he seemed to remember…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — An Emergency Services specialist for U.S. Secret Service died Wednesday while fighting a four-alarm fire as a Lutherville, Md., volunteer firefighter in Baltimore County. Mark G. Falkenhan, 43, a four year employee of the Secret Service, died in a blaze, which was called in as a kitchen fire around…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A motorist tooling around an upscale Dallas neighborhood Wednesday night got an unexpected greeting from U.S. Secret Service agents when his muscle car accidentally hopped the curb and ended up on the lawn of a certain prominent person. Ed Donovan, a Secret Service spokesman, said the man was driving sometime around…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Retired Secret Service agent John Joseph Lardner rode behind President John F. Kennedy on Pennsylvania Avenue during his inauguration in 1961 and later went on to head up the agency’s Rhode Island office, the Boston Globe reported. He died of a heart attack in Easton, Mass. on Nov. 19 at age…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com This would have been what we call a career-ending move. Former U.S. Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine says in his new book that he almost shot President Lyndon B. Johnson hours after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the Associated Press reported. Blaine writes in his book “The Kennedy Detail” that he was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — To Nicholas Marino: Nice try. On Thursday, the 24-year-old Washingtonian was sentenced here to two years probation, 240 hours of a community service and fined $500 for using fake diplomatic license tags. Authorities say U.S. Secret Service police stopped him for speeding in his Mitsubishi SUV last Nov. 20…
