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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)49. Abraham Bolden heard agents say they wouldn't take a bullet for JFK.
Which is very troubling, considering what these asshats brought to the Oval Office.

Ted Kennedy survived Richard Nixon's Plots
By Don Fulsom
In September 1972, Nixons continued political fear, personal loathing, and jealously of Kennedy led him to plant a spy in Kennedys Secret Service detail.
The mole Nixon selected for the Kennedy camp was already being groomed. He was a former agent from his Nixons vice presidential detail, Robert Newbranda man so loyal he once pledged he would do anythingeven killfor Nixon.
The President was most interested in learning about the Sen. Kennedys sex life. He wanted, more than anything, stated Haldeman in The Ends of Power, to catch (Kennedy) in the sack with one of his babes.
In a recently transcribed tape of a September 8, 1972 talk among the President and aides Bob Haldeman and Alexander Butterfield, Nixon asks whether Secret Service chief James Rowley would appoint Newbrand to head Kennedys detail:
Haldeman: He's to assign Newbrand.
President Nixon: Does he understand that he's to do that?
Butterfield: He's effectively already done it. And we have a full force assigned, 40 men.
Haldeman: I told them to put a big detail on him (unclear).
President Nixon: A big detail is correct. One that can cover him around the clock, every place he goes. (Laughter obscures mixed voices.)
President Nixon: Right. No, that's really true. He has got to have the same coverage that we give the others, because we're concerned about security and we will not assume the responsibility unless we're with him all the time.
Haldeman: And Amanda Burden (one of Kennedys alleged girlfriends) can't be trusted. (Unclear.) You never know what she might do. (Unclear.)
Haldeman then assures the President that Newbrand will do anything that I tell him to He really will. And he has come to me twice and absolutely, sincerely said, "With what you've done for me and what the President's done for me, I just want you to know, if you want someone killed, if you want anything else done, any way, any direction "
President Nixon: The thing that I (unclear) is this: We just might get lucky and catch this son-of-a-bitch and ruin him for '76.
Haldeman: That's right.
President Nixon: He doesn't know what he's really getting into. We're going to cover him, and we are not going to take "no" for an answer. He can't say "no." The Kennedys are arrogant as hell with these Secret Service. He says, "Fine," and (Newbrand) should pick the detail, too.
Toward the end of this conversation, Nixon exclaims that Newbrands spying (is) going to be fun, and Haldeman responds: Newbrand will just love it.
CONTINUED...
http://surftofind.com/tedkennedy
Reagan obstruct justice when Jim Garrison investigated the New Orleans connections to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Then-governor of California, Reagan denied Garrison's request to extradite a suspect in his case, Edgar Eugene Bradley. Some investigators believe disruptors within his office fed Garrison a false lead -- one Eugene Hale Brading. The thing is, Braden was arrested in Dealey Plaza.
So, remember: Nixon and Reagan couldn't give a damn about the Kennedy brothers, liberal Democrats. Nixon and Reagan devoted their public "service" to helping end the New Deal and install the New War State. Those two are worse than asshats. They, and those who think like them, are un-democratic.
PS: Thank you, Rhett!
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Secret Service didn't like African Americans in 1963. Ask Agent Abraham Bolden. [View all]
Octafish
Oct 2014
OP
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