Conspiracy theories haunt the Kennedy assassination; Bolden offers a new one, concerning discrimination and evidence suppression.

Becoming, in JFK's words, the Jackie Robinson of the Secret Service, Bolden joined the White House detail in 1961. Already beset by racism (he once found a noose suspended over his desk), his idealism is further shattered by the drinking and carousing of other agents.

Soon after the assassination, he receives orders that hint at an effort to withhold, or at least to the color, the truth. He discovers that evidence is being kept from the Warren Commission and when he takes action, finds himself charged with conspiracy to sell a secret government file and sentenced to six years in prison, where both solitary confinement and the psychiatric ward await. Enter a world of duplicitous charges and disappearing documents fit for a movie thriller.

The Echo from Dealey Plaza: The true story of the first African American on the White House Secret Service detail and his quest (Paperback)

By Abraham Bolden

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ISBN-13: 9780307382023
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Published: Three Rivers Press, 1/2009

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