Kennedy's Secret Service Agents Interviewed by Daily Herald

The Daily Herald recently interviewed former Secret Service agents Gerald Blaine and Clint Hill, co-authors of "The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence," as they toured to promote the book. In the article Blaine talks about what motivated him to co-author the book and Hill tells an abbreviated version of the day's events. Read the article.

Challenge to our fans/readers: Blaine and Clint Hill, his co-author, drew 200 people to their signing in Naperville, Illinois. Help us draw an even bigger crowd! Tell people about their upcoming appearance at the festival!

GBF Author Q&A with... Gerald Blaine

Name: Gerald Blaine
Also Known As: one of President Kennedy's Secret Service agents

Book: The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence

Book's Website

Where do you find inspiration?
The inspiration for "The Kennedy Detail" was to provide an accurate account of President Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas as witnessed and lived by the agents of the United States Secret Service who were present or whose role impacted the events of that day in Dallas. Unfortunately unfounded conspiracy theories were the basis for which history would be recorded unless the Kennedy Detail agents broke their silence. The inspiration was to provide a more accurate historical perspective.

What are you reading right now?
'The Autobiography of Mark Twain"

What book has inspired or affected you in some way?
"The Holy Bible" and "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy

GBF Featured Author James Swanson Signs New Book Deal

According to the Reliable Source column in the Washington Post, featured author James Swanson ("Bloody Crimes" and "Manhunt") signed a deal with the William Morrow imprint of HarperCollins for a book on JFK's killing. The book is due out fall 2013.

That leaves us wondering two things. One, will he be looking to connect with our other GBF featured authors -- Gerald Blaine and Clint Hill -- who chronicled their first-hand accounts of the assassination in "The Kennedy Detail"? And second, should we sign him up now for GBF 2014?