Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Presidential Protection Recommendations

Presidential Protection Recommendations The Commission offers the following recommendations for improving presidential protection, prompted by the assassination and aligned with a Secret Service planning document dated August 27, 1964: 1. A committee of Cabinet members (including the Secretary of the Treasury and Attorney General) or the National Security Council should be assigned to review and oversee Secret Service protective activities and the work of other federal agencies supporting presidential safety, to ensure maximum federal resources are engaged in protection efforts and to guide definition of domestic and foreign threats to presidential security. 2. Any determination to transfer all or part of the Secret Service’s presidential protective responsibilities to another department or agency should be made by the Executive branch and Congress, potentially based on recommendations from the proposed oversight committee.

第一章

Chapter I presents a series of recommendations from the Commission focused on strengthening the protection of the President through reforms to the Secret Service and related governmental processes. The recommendations address organizational supervision, threat detection capabilities, motorcade security, interagency and local cooperation, resource allocation, the role of the President’s physician, federal jurisdiction over presidential assassination, the handling of disloyal defectors, and the establishment of ethical standards for information collection and presentation.