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)