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In reply to the discussion: Secret Service didn't like African Americans in 1963. Ask Agent Abraham Bolden. [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)17. The Chicago Plot
Former Secret Service Agent Abraham Bolden helped investigate the Chicago Plot to assassinate President Kennedy, about three weeks before Dallas.
The same basic M.O. as Dallas, ambush, high-power rifles, high-rise, and one patsy by the name of Thomas Arthur Vallee, a USMC veteran from a U-2 base in Japan. The plot was broken up by the Secret Service in Chicago. Not that they wanted to, they sort of had to when the local cops got a call from a landlady with the guns, passports, maps and "parade route" in Highlighter still on the bed.
The great author and investigative reporter Edwin Black wrote about it -- a very important read in PDF:
http://www.thechicagoplot.com/The%20Chicago%20Plot.pdf
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Secret Service didn't like African Americans in 1963. Ask Agent Abraham Bolden. [View all]
Octafish
Oct 2014
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You are most welcome, scarletwoman! Edwin Black helped keep Abraham Bolden's story alive.
Octafish
Oct 2014
#38
For keeping his integrity, Abraham Bolden was put in a psych ward and force-fed drugs.
Octafish
Oct 2014
#22
Pres. Obama should issue a pardon to this man so he won't still have the stigma of being a
tblue37
Oct 2014
#5
They couldn't have Mr Bolden interfering with their plans for Mr Kennedy. n/t
951-Riverside
Oct 2014
#6
It's my bet that the WH is working on pardons for Bush and Cheney and the hell with this
rhett o rick
Oct 2014
#25
''He chose peace. They marked him for death.'' -- James W. Douglass, PhD. and man of peace, himself
Octafish
Oct 2014
#39
Excerpt from book review: 'You're the ''Jackie Robinson'' of the Secret Service.'
Octafish
Oct 2014
#45
Every time I read anything about JFK, I think how different history could have been!
LongTomH
Oct 2014
#48