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Assassinations and the U.S.Secret Service
objective
• identify the role of the Secret Service anddiscuss intelligently the variousassassinations/assassins in America’shistory.
successful assassinations• Abraham Lincoln
– John Wilkes Booth• James A. Garfield
– Charles J. Guiteau• William McKinley
– Leon Czolgosz• John Fitzgerald Kennedy
– Lee Harvey Oswald
attempted assassinations
• Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln,Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman,JFK, Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter,Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, BillClinton, George W. Bush
the role of the secret service
• Two roles:– Investigating counterfeiting of U.S.
currency and treasury bonds &investigation of major fraud.
–Protective roles, ensuring the safetyof national VIPs.
history of the Secret Service
• formed in 1865.• did not begin protecting presidents until
after McKinley assassination (thirdpresidential assassination)