03667nam a2200325u 4500 555639783 OCoLC 20190501190035.0 ta 110518s2010 nyua 001 0deng 2010038035 9781439192962 (OCoLC)555639783 n-us--- E842.9 .B545 2010 973.922092 22 Blaine, Gerald. The Kennedy detail : JFK's secret service agents break their silence Gerald Blaine with Lisa McCubbin. 1st Gallery Books hardcover ed. New York : Gallery Books, 2010. xvii, 427 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Checked out to Guilford Memorial Library 02/23/11 GH Includes index. When time stood still -- On the detail -- The president- elect detail -- The threats -- The advance -- The risks -- The first lady's detail -- The summer of '63 -- The reelection campaign -- Rising tensions -- Texas -- The final hours -- Six seconds in Dallas -- Breakdown -- The unimaginable -- Darkness falls -- No time for tears -- Burial -- The end of Camelot -- The Johnson detail -- The pendulum falls -- The verdict -- Confronting conspiracies -- Clint Hill : witness to history -- Clint Hill : don't call me hero. The Secret Service are an elite team of men who share a single mission: to protect the president of the United States. On November 22, 1963, these men failed, and a country would never be the same. Now, for the first time, a member of JFK's Secret Service detail reveals the inside story of the assassination, the weeks and days that led to it and its heartrending aftermath. This book is a portrait of dedication, courage, and loss. Drawing on the memories of his fellow agents, the author captures the energetic, crowd-loving young president, who banned agents from his car and often plunged into raucous crowds with little warning. He describes the careful planning that went into JFK's Texas swing, the worries and concerns that agents, working long hours with little food or rest, had during the trip. And he describes the intensely private first lady making her first ever political appearance with her husband, just months after losing a newborn baby. Here are vivid scenes that could come only from inside the Kennedy detail: JFK's last words to his tearful son when he left Washington for the last time; how a sudden change of weather led to the choice of the open air convertible limousine that day; Mrs. Kennedy standing blood soaked outside a Dallas hospital room; the sudden interruption of six-year-old Caroline's long anticipated sleepover with a friend at home; the exhausted team of agents immediately reacting to the president's death with a shift to LBJ and other key governmental figures; the agents' dismay at Jackie's decision to walk openly from the White House to St. Matthew's Cathedral at the state funeral. Most of all, this is a look into the lives of men who devoted their entire beings to protecting the presidential family: the stress of the secrecy they kept, the emotional bonds that developed, the terrible impact on agents' psyches and families, and their astonishment at the country's obsession with far fetched conspiracy theories and finger pointing. This book is a portrait of camaraderie and heartbreak, a true story of heroism in its most complex and human form. Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 Assassination. United States. Secret Service Officials and employees Biography. McCubbin, Lisa. 15 9711 9711 0 0 ABELJ abelj NF 2016-10-27 0 973.922 BLAI 20269 2016-10-27 28.00 2016-10-27 BOOK