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Filmmaker Joshua Coates Lands Life Rights To First Black Secret Service Agent, Appointed To Detail By John F. Kennedy
Filmmaker Joshua Coates has secured the 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 personally appointed him in 1961. Coates has also retained Stephen Jaffe, a former Special Assistant to the New Orleans District Attorney, Jim Garrison, who famously re-investigated the Kennedy assassination in 1967-1968, to serve as a technical consultant on the film and an executive producer. Coates, who just wrapped the psychological thriller Madonna Non-Grata starring Tamara Taylor, Eric Roberts and Isaac Keys, reports that he hopes to begin pre-production later this year as soon as he and his producing partner, Colen, have cast the lead role of Bolden.
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