Secret Service Weapons 1963. Secret service agent george hickey is seen brandishing a rifle as the limousine carrying a wounded president kennedy, with agent clint hill on the back, speeds away from dealey plaza in dallas on nov. Secret service and how it protects american presidents.
It was assigned to the presidential protection white house detail from 1939 until 1947. They also are trained on the remington model 870 shotgun, the uzi submachine gun, and the mp5 automatic weapon. The secret service, which spectacularly failed to perform its task of protecting president kennedy in dallas, was accused of active participation in the assassination:
Secret service agents and officers carry the sig sauer p229, 357 caliber pistol.
For all of the controversy it created, the zapruder film of the 1963 john f. One theory is that hickey accidentally shot jfk. Secret service had a budget of about $4.1 million dollars and a staff of about 200 agents nationwide. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted so long as the latter page exists.