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...cover belonged to Secret Service Agent Buendorf...
...demonstrated how quickly the Secret Service can tumble from being lavishly praised to facing stern criticism. No margin of error is allowed in its duties. After Squeaky's loaded gun failed to fire because she had not pulled the slide to force a cartridge into the chamber, Agent Larry Buendorf keenly spotted the gun's glint and wrestled the weapon away from her before she could try again. He became a hero. The still unnamed agents who decided last week that Moore was no risk were shown, of course, to have been painfully wrong, and in a sense have become...
Under Surveillance. Yet some Americans were warily questioning the wisdom of Ford's making such a trip at all; at moments he and Candidate Wyman rode standing up in an open limousine. Beside him was the usual complement of four Secret Service agents, including Agent Larry Buendorf, who had wrested the gun away from Fromme. Other agents were on the perimeter of the presidential entourage. A former prominent Manson family member, Linda Kasabian, was at her home a few miles from Milford, N.H., when Ford stopped there; but the Secret Service and a state police officer kept her under...
...weapon that, at such close range, would almost certainly have killed the President. Some witnesses reported hearing a distinct clicking sound, which could have been made by the hammer snapping forward as she futilely pulled the trigger. In addition, there is the record of what happened to Agent Buendorf when he leaped into action. Instinctively, as he had been trained, Buendorf grabbed for the hammer of the gun, trying to interpose the web of skin between his right thumb and his right forefinger between the hammer and the firing pin. In the confusion, just what happened is not clear...
...grim reality, however, is that even the skill and dedication of agents like Larry Buendorf cannot guarantee the safety of a political leader against the cunning of a psychopath who is determined to kill−and who knows, far better than Squeaky Fromme, how to operate a gun. There are 47,000 potentially dangerous persons in the Secret Service files, and no one knows how many tens of thousands of others have still not surfaced. With a staff of only 1,300 agents, the Secret Service is hard pressed to fulfill its present duties and to check out every...