The House committee found that the Secret Service was “deficient in the performance of its duties.” It faulted how threat information was gathered and shared, the lack of preparation for a sniper, and the agents’ performance in the motorcade. [1]
The Warren Commission had already criticized the service’s advance work, its failure to check buildings along the route and the agents’ drinking in Fort Worth the night before. [2]
In January 1995, after the 1992 JFK Records Act required agencies to preserve assassination records, the Secret Service destroyed presidential protection survey reports for some of Kennedy’s trips in the fall of 1963. The Review Board learned of it about a week later and made the service explain itself in writing and in a briefing. [3]
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