Abraham Bolden, the Secret Service, and the JFK Assassination
Other Agents on JFK: “That Bastard Has to Die”
In 1961, Abraham Bolden became the first African-American to serve on the Presidential Protective Division of the Secret Service. Bolden saw this as the highest honor as he admired John F. Kennedy for being a president who truly wanted to help the black people of America. Other Secret Service agents disagreed, both with Bolden and his opinion of JFK. He was called the “n” word numerous times and in the years leading up to 11/22/63, he overheard other agents saying “that bastard has to die,” regarding President Kennedy.
Abraham Bolden sat down with Patrick Bet-David of Valuetainment in the YouTube interview “JFK Assassination: Was it an Inside Job?” In this interview, Bolden claims the negligence of the Secret Service agents in the hours, days and months leading up to Dallas was so profound that they should be held responsible for his murder.
Did he think the Secret Service was complicit in the assassination of JFK? No. However he also did not think Lee Harvey Oswald did the shooting on that November afternoon. Bolden mentions the memo sent by Assistant Attorney General (and Council on Foreign Relations member) Nicholas Katzenbach to Bill Moyers just days after the incident. Katzenbach, who began drafting this memo mere hours after the killing, says “The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have confederates who are still at large; and that evidence was such that he would have been convicted at trial.” How could he have possibly known this?
For speaking out against the Secret Service in their negligence and handling of an aborted assassination attempt in Chicago shortly before the Dallas visit, Abraham Bolden was not only fired from the organization, but also found himself in prison for three years on charges of bribery. Significant evidence has been presented that Bolden was not guilty and had in fact been framed. The 2006 documentary Conspiracy Files: The JFK Assassination claims that John Roselli, who had ties to the mob, the FBI and the CIA, was the man responsible for framing Bolden.
Bolden’s story can be found in the book JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters as well as his 2008 memoir The Echo from Dealey Plaza.
Here is that interview with Patrick Bet-David:
After seeing this video, do you think the Secret Service’s negligence was responsible for JFK’s murder? Were they even perhaps complicit? How much of an inside job was the assassination? Please leave me a comment, share this article and maybe even give it a clap or two.
