New Book By Former Secret Service Agent Tells of life Guarding JFK
(HMG Celebrity News) – After nearly fifty years under a code of silence, a JFK Secret Service agent is speaking out in a new book with the help of award-winning journalist Lisa McCubbin. The book ‘THE KENNEDY DETAIL’ narrated by retired Gerald Blaine one of thirty-four Secret Service agents on President Kennedy’s detail when he was assassinated, claims he almost shot President Lyndon Johnson, just hours after President John Kennedy was killed. Assigned to protect Johnson the night after Kennedy’s death, Blaine wrote that he heard footsteps approaching the vice-president’s mansion so he “firmly pushed the stock into his shoulder, ready to fire.” The intruder was Johnson himself—and Blaine had the gun pointed directly at his chest. “In the blackness of the night, Johnson’s face went completely white,” Blaine writes. The book also gives a first-person account of Kennedy’s assassination, with the help of Clint Hill, the agent who jumped on the back of the car immediately after the shooting and helped Jackie back down into her seat. The book also dismisses the rumors that Kennedy had an affair with Marilyn Monroe, saying he was on Secret Service detail the night of Kennedy’s infamous birthday on May 19, 1962, and she left with the other guests. The Discovery Channel is producing a TV special based on The Kennedy Detail that airs in November and features rare footage from The Sixth Floor Museum’s collections.
