Ex-Secret Service agent to share JFK stories in LR

Former Secret Service Agent Bill Carter will share next month in Little Rock his personal stories about his experience working in the days after President John F. Kennedy's assassination.

Carter's speech will start at 6 p.m. Nov. 22 at the Oxford American Annex, 1300 Main St. in Little Rock, the magazine said.

Carter, a Rector native, was assigned to President Lyndon B. Johnson in the four days after Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963. He traveled with Kennedy's body when it was being taken to Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington, D.C., for the former president's funeral.

He was later assigned to a federal agent team investigating Kennedy's assassination and accompanied Lee Harvey Oswald's family to testify before the Warren Commission, a committee Johnson established to investigate Kennedy's death. Oswald is widely considered to be the man who shot Kennedy but was never convicted because he was killed shortly after Kennedy's assassination by Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby.

Carter has also worked with the Rolling Stones as an attorney and with country music artist Reba McEntire as her manager, according to his website.

Carter's lecture is free to the public, and a question-and-answer session will follow his presentation, the magazine said. Seating is limited and will be served on a first-come, first-served basis.

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