But this reputation for courage and efficiency would not last forever. Shocked into reform by their failure to protect the president on that fateful day, this once-sleepy agency was rapidly transformed into a proud, elite unit that would finally redeem themselves in 1981 by valiantly thwarting an assassination attempt against Ronald Reagan. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but its story begins in earnest in 1963, with the death of John F. But the Secret Service wasn't always so troubled. decade, bringing to light the gaffes and scandals that plague the agency today- from a toxic work culture to outdated equipment and training to the deep resentment among the ranks with the agency's leadership. So the Warren Commission investigation and Earl Warren probably puts this the best… he said ‘There is no person who can tell me that a Secret Service agent that’s out until five o’clock in the morning, even having just a few drinks, is going to have the hair trigger reflexes necessary on such an important assignment as protecting the President."Carol Leonnig has been covering the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last. However, that night they also needed to get out and blow off some steam, and they stayed up late, having a drink, or three, or four, and some of them got home around two a.m., one of them got home at five a.m. Kennedy… Kennedy was a jet setter like no other President before him, and they knew they were exhausted, and they knew they couldn’t keep up.
These guys work non-stop and they were run ragged by John F.
“A group of agents–no fewer than nine– according to the Warren Commission had gone out the night before they were supposed to shepherd the President on his motorcade through Dallas, to this place called The Cellar. Some of the officers did not get back to their hotel rooms until between 2:00 and 5:00 a.m. Researching the Warren Commission, investigative journalist Carol Leonnig found that “no fewer than nine” Secret Service officers went to a bar the night before the President’s assassination.
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