Abraham Bolden
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Abraham Bolden was the first African-American Secret Service agent assigned to a presidential protective detail. John Kiriakou says Bolden quite literally saved John F. Kennedy's life in Chicago in October 1963. Kiriakou says fellow Secret Service agents told Bolden, to his face, that if something happened to Kennedy they would not protect him, using a racial slur and citing Kennedy's civil-rights sympathies as the reason.

Bolden is represented by constitutional attorney Tyler Nixon, a friend of Kiriakou's, who is working to secure Bolden a pardon before he dies; as of the interview Bolden was in his 90s. Kiriakou attributes the case against Bolden in part to racism.

See also

- John Kiriakou
