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	ADDENDUM:



	Since the "JFK" movie of 1991-1992 and the book "Mortal
Error" in 1992, there has been an unprecedented amount of Sercet
Service-generated publicity, especially in the last two years. First came
the NBC series entitled "Secret Service" which ran from 1992 to 1993, and
which dealt mainly with the clinical side of the agency-the counterfeit
investigations and the like. Then came the book and the movie "In the Line
of Fire" starring Clint Eastwood in 1993 (a major hit, coming out in video
in 1994 and to cable in 1995). Such luminaries as Robert Snow, Jerry Parr,
Jack Warner, and Carl Meyer worked as consultants on the film. Also in
1993, Sam Kinney made his first and only tv appearance on the "Today" show
on the 30th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, and Clint Hill did an
"Update" of sorts for the 25th anniversary special for "60 Minutes" during
the same month (showing excerpts from his 12/75 appearance, a portion of
which also appeared on the Dan Rather/CBS special starring Gerald Posner).
In 1994, agent Jack Walsh was profiled in "Star" magazine, including an
interview with Hamilton Brown! Finally, agents Carl Meyer, Bill Livingood,
and Chuck Vance, among others, appear on tv[CBS and CNN] in regard to the
"attempts" on Pres. Clinton.

	However, nothing can compare to 1995, in which not
one but TWO major Secret Service tv/video special came about within months
of each other. First came the H Channels' "The Secret Service", a
four-video series featuring Clint Hill, Larry Buendorf, Nick Zarvos, Jerry
Parr, Carl Meyer, Jim Griffith, Vince Mroz, Rex Scouten, Rufus Youngblood,
Jane Vezeris, Pat Miller, and Eljay Bowron; this series is truly a major
achievemant, although little if any real hard information, security-wise,
is revealed, especially as it relates to 11/22/63. Nevertheless, this is an
outstanding series covering 1865 to the present day, with much archival
footage included (a condensed, two hour version was broadcast on the A&E
Network in October, 1995).

	And, before we can catch our breath, the Discovery Channel
threw their hat in the ring with their own special "Inside the Secret
Service" in September. The show featured interviews with Clint Hill, Jerry
Parr, Floyd Boring(!), Winston Lawson(!), John Simpson, Eljay Bowron, and
Carl Meyer. This two-hour program featured a beautiful print of the Nix
film, as well as a 1901 film of Pres. McKinley, among others. However,
there was alittle bit more "revealed" in this program than in the H
Channel's, in regard to protective measures and 11/22/63. Jerry Parr spoke
of the Secret Service's code of silence, and that many agents take to their
grave what they've seen. Current Director Bowron spoke of the last 18
months, in which newspaper articles and the like have spoke of the
not-so-secret Secret Service.

	The James J. Rowley Training Facility in
Beltsville, MD was shown, ande it was revealed that much of the training is
designed to fail, the goal being to learn by your mistakes! Win Lawson
stated that he had arrived first in Dallas, as the second advance person
(UNNAMED-David Grant) arrived just a few days before the event. He then
went on to say that he was the first and only-ever- advance agent to lose a
president...WHAT ABOUT HIS PARTNER, DAVID GRANT?!?! Lawson said that any
other organization would have fired him or transferred him to the
boondocks, but they kept him working: he worked JFK's funeral and was near
the gravesite. For him, according to the narrator, guilt was just as bitter
as it had been for agent Hill. Lawson revealed that agents had come up to
him after the assassination and said 'if it had to happen, I'm glad it
happened to you (?!?!)'; Lawson was almost to tears when he said he had
done everything he could have with what they were doing, procedure-wise,
and that "(I) had done everything I could". The narrator said that the
Secret Service's own culture came into play- their code of ethics:the
Secret Service looks after its own, even if they have strange ways of
showing it, as mentioned above!

	For his part, Clint Hill spoke about "the previous
weekend(11/18/63)" where JFK "had indicated that he didn't want agents
on the rear of the car"- although this sounds like a major revelation, it's
not: Hill told The WC this in March of 1964, as well as in his report to
Rowley (although the fine print was a) he wasn't on this trip,  b) he was
never told by JFK personally not to mount the rear of the lim and c) it was
Boring who "relayed" the order). It was a major failing of this show that
they finally had Agent Boring on this show-his only tv appearance to
date-and they only discussed the Truman attempt and the Eisenhower years!
In any event, the narrator said that Hill struggled with guilt for almost
30 years; it was here that Hill picked up the story (the same one he
revealed in 11/93 to "60 Minutes"): he and his wife went to Dealey Plaza in
1990. He walked it for about 2 hours, studying every angle and every
possibility. He let everything run through his mind. He then came to the
conclusion that he did the best that he could, and that he didn't have a
chance...WHAT ABOUT AGENT JOHN READY? He also was unnamed-he was the
one responsible for JFK, NOT Hill, assigned to Jackie! The song remains the
same...