Why The Secret Service Came

On April 14 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. The Assassination took place at Ford’s Theater in Washington D.C. Booth had a few people trying to help him get away after he killed President Lincoln. One person was Dr. Samuel A. Mudd.

How do six ordinary untrained citizens change the course of the American Revolution? The story of the Culper spy ring, an American spy network, answers just such a question. Operating during the War for American Independence, it was a ring so secretive that even George Washington himself was ignorant of the spies' identities. Nevertheless

Between the time of the American Revolution and the Civil War the U.S. had no national paper currency. Chartered banks and their privately issued notes proliferated. Countless banks issued paper money in a bewildering variety of denominations and designs—more than ten thousand different kinds by 1860. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation. The Continental was America’s currency. In Stephen Mihm’s, A Nation of Counterfeiters, Mihm weaves a historically based tale of how a shady lot of counterfeiters thrived under the American capitalist system, and then explains how the federal government effectively dismantled the archaic monetary system and in turn ended the counterfeit economy it sustained.

The bank provided credit to growing enterprises, issued bank notes which served as a dependable medium of exchange throughout the country, and it exercised a restraining effect on the less well manages state banks. Nicholas Biddle, who ran the Bank, tried to put the institution on a sound and prosperous basis. But Andrew Jackson was always determined to destroy it (Brinkley, 249). The Bank had two opposition groups: the “soft-money” faction and the “hard-money” faction. Soft money advocates objected to the Bank of the United States because it restrained the state banks from issuing notes freely. Hard money advocates believed that coin was the only safe currency, and they condemned all banks that issued bank notes.

This duty was given to the Secret Service soon after the assassination of William McKinley in 1901 (Secret Service Duties, Past, Present, & Future, n.d.). "Suddenly it seemed necessary to establish a federal agency responsible for protecting the president, and the Secret Service added this crucial task to its roster" (Criminal Justice Degree Hub, 2014). This duty was given to the Secret Service because of the excess amount of manpower that was available to carry out the necessary task. "Theodore Roosevelt called it a 'very small but very necessary thorn in the flesh.'" President Roosevelt also thought that the Secret Service would not be able to be useful if an attempt were made on his life (Time, 2015). Although the Secret Service is called to protect the president and other high-profile individuals, the Secretary of Homeland Security calls the shots as to who receives protection (FAQs, n.d.). The Secret Service has not always protected high-profile targets, but the agency has continued their important duty of being the nation's protectors, since

Immediately following Flight 11 crashing into the North Tower of the World Trade Center reactionary plans were enacted by the United States Secret Service to safe guard the President, who was at a Florida Elementary School at the time of the attack. Initial plans were to return the President to the White

Sadly, Lincoln was killed due to the belief of Booth that “Lincoln was going to over throw the constitution and destroy the south he loved.” (Booths reason for assassination) This was most likely caused by the fact that Booth was an open confederate sympathizer during the war. It was also thought that the guards were not doing their jobs at the theatre and that they allowed Booth to sneak by and shoot Lincoln in the head with a 44 caliber derringer pistol. Recently after Lincoln’s death it was found that co-conspirators were involved in Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s

The night of April 14th, 1865, the audience of Ford’s Theatre anticipated to see a normal performance of “Our American Cousin.” Little did they know what would they experience that night would change the path of American history. One of the most tragic presidential assassinations took place. President Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated in US history. Lincoln’s assassination took many steps, planning, preparation, kill the president, and finally get away. This was the time of the civil war and the South had just surrendered at the Appotomax in Northern Virginia. The Confederacy hated Lincoln because the government proscribed slavery, so a group of men took the risk of murdering the sixteenth president: John Wilkes Booth, George

On the evening on April 14, 1856, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, who had already attempted to kidnap Lincoln twice already, while attending the play of Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theater. Sitting with him were Mayor Henry Rathbone and his fiancée, Clare Harris. While watching the play, Booth sneaked into the box the president, a knife in his left hand and a pistol in his right. Booth shot the president in the back of the head, slashed Rathbone across the arm, and jumped off the balcony. Booth caught his leg on a flag on the way down and broke his leg. Lincoln was carried to a boarding house next door and died the next day. President Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated in United States history. John booth escaped, sought medical attention for his wounded leg, and fled into the Virginia country side. Union troops found the barn he was hiding in, surrounded it, set it on fire, and shot Booth as he attempted to escape (“The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln,” 34f). The president’s body was taken by train to Springfield, Illinois, where he was then buried. Accomplices of Booth’s were tried for their part in trying to assassinate other leaders, such as the Vice President and the Secretary of War. Others were tried in court for attempting to aid

Although the original mission of the United States Secret Services was to control and prevent counterfeit money in the United States after the Civil War in 1865, by 1930 the role of the Secret Service had greatly expanded. Many events occurred during that period that led the Secret Service to expand to enforce the laws whether it includes protecting money, protecting the President, or investigating on the frauds and groups that are dangerous to the people of America. Driving forces and trends impacted Secret Service mission and support operations over the many years.

The horrific day of the assassination of our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln happened on April 14th, 1865 at Fords Theater when watching a play called “Our American Cousin” with is friends and family. Late that night, as they were watching a play, John Wikes Booth, slipped into the theater and made a very cruel and sneaky scheme. He had planned to assassinate the president, Abraham Lincoln! Once he got into Fords Theater, he grabbed a .44 caliber derringer pistol and shot Abraham Lincoln in the back of the head. When they all heard the gunshot, everyone thought it was a part of the play. Then they heard Abraham Lincoln’s wife, Mary, scream and knew it was not part of the play. Once of Abraham Lincoln’s

By law, the Secret Service has to protect the president, the vice president, or other individuals next in order of succession to the Office of the President, the president-elect and vice president-elect, the immediate families of the presidents, Vice Presidents, etc. When there are major presidential and vice presidential candidates, and their spouses within 120 days of a general presidential election, and other individuals as designated per Executive Order of the President and National Special Security Events, when designated as such by the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security

The Secret Service is one of America’s oldest federal investigative law enforcement agencies. It was founded in 1865 as a branch of the United States Treasury Department. The Secret Service was originally created to combat the counterfeiting of the United States currency in circulation. This was a serious problem at the time. The Secret Service has many other responsibilities. In fact, the Secret Service protects the president, gathers intelligence, and does diplomatic business with other countries.

Suppose someone produces perfect counterfeits of subway tokens and uses them to ride on the subway. The subway company takes the fall in profit does because it sells fewer tokens as a result. Now suppose someone produces perfect counterfeits of Federal Reserve notes and spends them into circulation. The problem with counterfeit bills is much more complex than the subway tokens. It is virtually impossible to produce perfect counterfeit notes, but some are good enough to circulate for long periods before they are detected. One million dollars of counterfeit notes would have only a slight effect on the economy, but say five billion dollars is counterfeited. That’s about 1% of the cash in circulation, but it’s also about 20% of the cash that banks

Nobody would like it if I had the ability to forge or counterfeit everyone’s valuables and render them worthless, especially not the money you bust your ass all week, every week to earn. This would be catastrophic and would leave you wondering why….. Why should you kill yourselves in your jobs trying to get to the top of the metaphorical totem pole, to earn the ‘big bucks’, if I could sit in my basement and continuously print off 20, 50 or 100 euro notes with the press of a button. This would just be unfair and would cause quite a stir I imagine, this is why there are numerous agencies around the world that are working to counteract those criminals (like me) from depreciating the value of your cash and causing mas inflation in the prices of products, like the IACC (International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition), GACG (Global Anti-Counterfeit Network), as well as the collaboration of WCO’s (World Customs Organisations) and INTA (International Trademark Association). They do this by including a variety of features to increase the reliability and security of banknotes to deter me and my type from doing so, and should I persist, they make my job as hard as they possibly