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willmar walter is on the line with a Caesar JFK historian and author of the
hidden history at the JFK assassination
a llamar welcome back to the program great to be with you again Tom
thank you are Abraham Bolden a
tell us about Abraham bold well um
its its his is one of the most tragic cases
I love pic injustice that that
in some way still remains from the nineteen 67 is like a sieve injustice in
american
just a system but this goes all the way back
to 1964 not long after the president's assassinated in its just
no one more reason I know there's a lot of controversy about
know should we continue to have a Black History Month
are therefore which is the last day or shouldn't like history be taught you
know every day every year and I'm a big believer in Matt
however yeah they're still just so many parts
up the story it civil rights and and african-americans
they're just not known by the public and
you know you and I have been trying to spread the word about here and bolted I
realized
since 1993 yeah to prepare the presentation in Dallas but
so many people still don't know what it is are met see here here's why it's such
a tragic story
so he was a real civil rights pioneer can't he was the first
african-american are secret service agent assigned to the presidential
detail trying to protect
specifically President John F Kennedy in effect it was President Kennedy
the personally selected keeper hambleton
to be the first black Asian hand in those days and he was selected back in
1961
are the same year the JFK took office you know and and and
if the UN are old enough to remember how was in those days
for an african-american you didn't have your you can be just as good
as a Caucasian to get a job or keep a job
you had to be far far better can so
JFK you missus this was an era where they were still whites-only in colored
only
drinking fountains all I was going to a whites-only school until two years after
our
have bold and became your joint the JFK so White House details
so yes this was a time of horrible discrimination racial killings
all out the worst up in Mississippi with yet to come
but but JFK argue he had been where the person
a democrats to really get overwhelming african-american support because he
stood up for martin luther king with teams in that door to jail
so JFK was really determined to make progress on civil rights
very talk in congress because you had other democrats were full spectrum party
in those days
from the most conservative to the most liberal but JFK could do
actions like these and so he would pick carefully
and actually bowl that have been aside a
to Gare de a restroom when JFK was making an appearance in Chicago
so he was given and very low assignment because in those days and has as today
the secret service had a lot of other charts
by tracking down counterfeiters and those sorts of things so
he has been kinda yes sent to the backorder regard this men's room den on
this other level away from the president of
JFK wound up going to that men's room yep saw this distinguished you know
really clean cut are all-american
no black gentleman your guardian and introduced himself and
and they struck up a conversation jackie was very impressed by that much remains
to be there is intelligence
can so he said Yahoo account would you like to come work for me
are at the white house as part of the White House details can so that was just
a huge thing at a time there were no
african-american presidential secret service agents
so that became a great opportunity for Boldin
any with that it was with great croatian worked very hard in
here sterling record in it was a good two minutes
former I'm so upset again Tom we have two minutes
can so what happened with with also was scheme covers a lot of racism
huge amount of racism saw a lot of blacks
activity on the part of a secret service tried to talk to his supervisors about
it
they didn't want to hear it they sent him back to Chicago
and I Bolden was part other star
dealing with clinton to assassinate President Kennedy
are three weeks before Dallas and Chicago
he knew about the attempt to assassinate President Kennedy
very similar camps in Tampa four days up before Dallas she said if three
weeks before Dallas with the attempt in Chicago so bold new that he knew about
the Secret Service
heavy treating all the laxity and secret service were heavy drinkers
especially those on JFK's presidential detail so
about six months after JFK was killed Bolton was going to go to Washington
control the Warren Commission staff pay the secret service
I with a time to relax in protecting the president they were drinking heavily
around that time
are and by the way are you in the press have been told the JFK was almost killed
in Chicago
three weeks before Dallas in Tampa Florida during a long way to take their
are four days before the house day he was gonna go up to washington to talk to
the Warren Commission staff about that emboldened he told
are a couple the fellow agency was gonna be doing guest
Bolden is arrested on the word a couple of counterfeiters
he said said to jail and he wanted to spend it sixty years in federal prison
now what you when I were able to do battle digging through all this
JFK step in the early nineties and I i cant kept on ticking after that
wish to find out the boulder had been completely fresh
in fact his main accuser later admitted
committing perjury instead someone with the district attorney's office in
Chicago
had told him to commit perjury and so
you know the evidence against Bolton who was a abstaining secret service agent
just fell away he's been trying to clear his name
ever since that time their website for
for the effort to clear Abraham Bolden's name if people will go
in about an hour who the hidden history of JFK dot com
I'm going to start a new 30-day White House application
minicamp here pardon for Abraham polled sorry
hidden history at JFK dot com thank you lamar
my wall destination dot com this is the Thom Hartmann program
my water an author of the hidden history at the JFK assassination
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