General Discussion

The decision to take off the top was theirs, not his. The agents guarding JFK weren't all on JFK's side, SS Agent Abraham Bolden reported recently:

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First black member of Secret Service finally testifies to JFK committee, details Chicago assassination plot

By Isabel Vincent
New York Post, May 21, 2025

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“He was serious about giving everyone equal opportunity,” Bolden said of Kennedy in a 2008 TV interview. “He never walked by me once that he didn’t strike up a conversation.”

In his 2008 book, “The Echo from Dealey Plaza: The True Story of the First African American on the White House Secret Service Detail and His Quest for Justice After the Assassination of JFK,” Bolden wrote about the racism he encountered from other agents on the president’s team, claiming they were often drunk on the job.

In his testimony Tuesday, he spoke about overhearing an angry 1963 meeting between Kennedy and his vice president Lyndon Johnson in the Oval Office in which Johnson accused Kennedy of dropping him from his run for president the following year, warning the president to “‘better stop f—king with me.'”

“He was redder than a sack of beets,” Bolden said, referring to Johnson when he stormed out of the Oval Office.

He also outlined a report he heard at a staff meeting about threats to kill Kennedy with “a high-powered rifle” at an Army-Air Force football game in Chicago on November 2, nearly three weeks before he was killed.

“Information that I had revealed was that some Cuban exiles were trying to assassinate the president when he came to Chicago,” Bolden said, adding that he knew from one of the agency’s weekly meetings that there had been threats against the president at the campaign stop in Dallas where was shot dead.

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https://nypost.com/2025/05/21/us-news/first-black-member-of-secret-service-finally-testifies-to-jfk-committee/



Abraham Bolden is still alive and he is worth hearing and reading.

PS: Rupert Murdoch always surprises.