GateHouse Media reported on the discovery Nov. Naval War College professor Stephen Knott discovered the declassified report and wrote about it in The Washington Post last month. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. The incident remained untold for decades until it was briefly mentioned in a report declassified in early 2016 by the John F. 22-caliber rifle and a box of ammunition were seized, but they were never charged with a crime. "I just heard word that they picked up somebody that was carrying a rifle and that they were taking (the rifle) to a gun shop," Gerald Blaine, 86, said in a recent phone interview.īlaine spoke to GateHouse Media following a recent revelation that local police arrested a 20-year-old man and 16-year-old boy after an Illinois Department of Public Safety employee saw them pointing a rifle out the window of a second-story building toward the president's motorcade during that visit on Oct. Kennedy when he visited Springfield in 1962 said he remembers a rifle was confiscated along the president's motorcade route that day. SPRINGFIELD - One of the Secret Service agents who was with President John F.
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