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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
But . . . I'm never going to get that near the president to do it in this day and age. However when Kennedy was popped, security was quite different because the last president that was popped was Lincoln, the SS was extremely lax back then.
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Don't forget McKinley (1881) and Garfield (1901). Plus the attempts on FDR (1933), and Truman (1950).
The Secret Service was not assigned to the President until 1894, and not full time pretection until 1902.
http://www.treas.gov/usss/history.shtml
I took a Presidential Assassinations course in college, one of the most interesting courses I've attended.