This was done so they would not be hit by the assassins bullet.
Marcia Roberts has written: 'Looking back and seeing the future' -- subject(s): History, Secret service, United States, United States. Secret Service 'Reading Shakespeare'
The Mossad, Israel's secret service agency, was responsible for the assassination of a Hamas militant in Dubai in 2010. (Fascinating! Apparently, 'Luvhistory2010' is present at the classified conferences of Israel's secret service agency, and has free and unfettered access to its policy planning and deliberations. One is led to wonder how her Mossad colleagues feel about her blabbing that information around on the internet.)
President Teddy Roosevelt, beginning in 1902. Due to the assassination of President McKinley, Congress asked the Secret Service to guard the President.
It was known that the assassination was carried out by members of the Black Hand - a Serbian terrorist organization. The Austrian government believed that the terrorists were supported by the Serbian secret service.
The mistakes learned was not to allow the president to travel in a open car again.
Secret Service agent who took a bullet in the abdomen while blocking President Reagen during an assassination attempt.
The Secret Service was originally a part of the Department of the Treasury. Established in 1865, its primary mission was to combat the widespread counterfeiting of U.S. currency. It wasn't until 1901, following the assassination of President William McKinley, that the Secret Service was also tasked with protecting the president and other high-level officials.
President William McKinley created the Secret Service on July 5, 1901, primarily to combat counterfeiting. However, he was assassinated on September 6, 1901, and died on September 14 of the same year. The Secret Service's role in protecting the president was formalized after his assassination, as the agency was initially focused on financial crimes.
There was an assassination attempt on Truman which involved a gun. This incident caused Truman to be more aware of the importance of the Secret Service in the presidential homes.
The sole purpose of the Secret Service agents are to protect the president. Whoever protects them is irrelevant and quite frankly not needed. People don't plan assassination to kill Secret Service agents, because of how quick people can act. With only 1 (maybe 2) shot, you need to kill the most important figure there, which is usually the president.
That's a secret.
The cast of For Her - 1912 includes: Harry Beaumont as Jack Hanley Bigelow Cooper as Stoll - the Secret Service Man George Lessey as Roberts - the Private Detective Charles Ogle as John Hart Richard Ridgely as Chief of the Secret Service