Three shots have been fired at President John Kennedy's

He received an unconfirmed report from Dallas.

It was his job to safeguard the destiny of a nation.

Today America mourns the loss of President John is gerritical moment,

he was a split second too late.

Now, after a lifetime of second thoughts and second guesses,

Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is about to get a second chance.

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Frank Horrigan? Yeah. Clint Oregon? Yeah.

Clint Eastwood

In the line of that decade. unclear and present danger, a podcast about the political and military thrillers of the 1990s,

and what they say about the politics of that decade. I'm Jamel Bowie. I'm a columnist for

the New York Times opinion section. My name is John Gans. I'm a freelance journalist. I write

a substack newsletter called Unpopular Front, and I'm working on a book about American politics

in the early 1990s.

Today, we are talking about the 1993 action thriller in the line of fire, directed by the

German blockbuster impresario, Wolfgang Peterson, and starring Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich,

and Renee Russo, among just a murderous

row of character actors, including John Mahoney, Fred Thompson, Gary Cole, Tobin Bell, and

Dylan McDermott.

Here is a short plot synopsis.

Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save

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