Filmmaker Joshua Coates Lands Life Rights To First Black Secret Service Agent, Appointed To Detail By John F. Kennedy
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Joshua Coates has secured rights to the life story of Abraham Bolden, the subject of the 2008 autobiography The Echo of Dealey Plaza.
Bolden made history as the first Black U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to the White House detail, where he guarded President John F.
Kennedy who had personally appointed him in 1961. Coates has written the screenplay for the movie The Unseen Shield and will also direct the film, which is currently in pre-production with his producing partner Fetteroff Colen.
Bolden, a U.S. Secret Service agent stationed in the Chicago office, first met Kennedy while on assignment in that city. Bolden had played a key role in thwarting an assassination plot in Chicago months before JFK was tragically assassinated in Dallas.
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