RÉCIT – The third foiled assassination attempt against Donald Trump, on April 25 in Washington, brought to light the work of these shadowy men responsible for protecting the most powerful head of state in the world from the constant threats of which he is the target.
It’s a profession where delay kills. Clint Hill, the Secret Service special agent and member of John F. Kennedy’s security detail on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, knew this better than anyone. All his life, after having lived on the front lines that fateful day when the assassination of the president by Lee Harvey Oswald shook America, the man was haunted by this question: “What if I could have reacted sooner? Yes, if I had reacted a tenth of a second faster, maybe half a second, I would have gotten there.” wondered the one we see, in the images, clinging to the car to try to protect Jacqueline Kennedy. “I could have taken the third bullet,” he confided in 1975, referring to the third projectile which, according to the official version, delivered the fatal blow.
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Everything happens in a few seconds
Trying to gain that tenth of a second that can change History is what the Secret Service is all about. On the evening of April 25, when Cole Tomas Allen entered…
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