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…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Secret is expected to do everything within its power to protect the vice president of the United States. But where does it draw the line? Perhaps when it comes to Super Soaker attacks. The Washington Post’s Reliable Source column reports that on Saturday Vice President Joe Biden…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In this town, there’s a few simple rules. One of them is very very simple: Don’t get in the way of Presidential motorcade. The Secret Service takes that pretty seriously. On Thursday night, U.S. Secret Service police subdued two men who failed to get out of the way of…
John Hinckley, who shot President Reagan in 1981, is a still a household name after all these years. He’s got more freedom these days. But when he leaves St. Elizabeths Hospital in D.C., he carries a GPS-enabled cellphone so hospital officials and the Secret Service can keep tabs on his whereabouts, the Washington Post reports….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Alfred Wong, a former Secret Service official who reportedly oversaw the installation of the taping system at the Nixon White House, and whose job at one point was to prevent the White House from being bugged, died last week of mesothelioma, a form of cancer, the Washington Post reported….
