First black member of Secret Service finally testifies to JFK committee, details Chicago assassination plot
The man John F.Kennedy called “the Jackie Robinson” of the Secret Service finally got to testify before a Congressional committee Tuesday — alleging fellow agents were often drunk on the job and there was a so-called “Chicago plot” to kill the president before his 1963 assassination in Dallas.His head bowed, Abraham Bolden, 90, spoke with difficulty into a microphone when he addressed the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform by Zoom from his home in Chicago.
The committee is probing the assassination of the president.But the audio cut off immediately as Bolden began to speak, effectively muting his testimony on the live stream.“On June 6, 1961, I walked into history,” said Bolden, according to a transcript obtained by The Post.“I was assigned to the White House detail in Washington, DC to assist in protecting the life of the president.
And I never met a more human and fair-minded person than President Kennedy.”The Trump administration released tens of thousands of previously classified documents with respect to the assassination of John F.Kennedy, his younger brother Robert F.
Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.In the past, Bolden claimed government agents discredited him by arresting him on trumped up charges of bribery in order to prevent him from speaking to the federal Warren Commission, headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren to investigate the shooting in Dallas on November 22, 1963.In addition to Bolden, the committee heard from Don Curtis, a physician at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas who was on the team that tried to save the president’s life.In his opening statement he said that the Warren Commission did not interview him or the other doctors, and that the bullet wounds he observed on Kennedy were not consistent with the version of a lone gunman that the Warren Commission reported.Four other witnesses also gave testimony during the second hearing of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, chaired by Rep....