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. Zero Fail by Carol Leonnig Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig 12518301 RJ Newhouse's review edit The Secret Service was formed to catch counterfeiters and check forgers impeding economic recovery after the Civil War. 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. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Adapted from Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig.
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