Publication information

Source:
Everybody’s Magazine
Source type: magazine
Document type: article
Document title: “The President’s Body-Guard”
Author(s): Shepherd, William G.
Date of publication: February 1920
Volume number: 42
Issue number: 2
Pagination: 35-38 (excerpt below includes only page 36)

 
Citation
Shepherd, William G. “The President’s Body-Guard.” Everybody’s Magazine Feb. 1920 v42n2: pp. 35-38.
 
Transcription
excerpt
 
Keywords
Secret Service; William McKinley (protection).
 
Named persons
Richard Jervis; William McKinley; William H. Moran; Joseph E. Murphy; James Sloan, Jr.
 
Document


The President’s Body-Guard
[excerpt]

OF MORAN’S present staff Murphy, “Dick” Jervis and James Sloan, now chief of the St. Louis district, are the only men who served under the past three Presidents. In the McKinley days there was no regular presidential body-guard; if there had been, McKinley would never have been shot. No man with a bandaged hand like that of McKinley’s assassin would have got by these trained Secret Service men.