→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.yout→’t have helped. The Secret Service in the beginning had no part in protecting the President, but rather were tasked with cutting down on the amazing amount of counterfeit money circulated in the United States at the time (hence why until March of 2003 they were a branch of the U.S. Department of the Treasury). It is estimated that about 1/3 of the U.S. currency in circulation was counterfeit when Lincoln signed the piece of legislature that would establish the Secret Service. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/09/abraham-lincoln-established-the-secret-service-on-the-day-he-was-shot-by-john-wilkes-booth/ Sources: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031233222X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=031233222X&linkCode=as2&tag=vicastingcom-20 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813122171/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0813122171&linkCode=as2&tag=vicastingcom-20 http://nowiknow.com/abraham-lincoln-created-the-secret-service-the-day-he-was-shot/ http://www.secretservice.gov/protection.shtml http://www.secretservice.gov/faq.shtml http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/kids/inside/html/spring98-2.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Lincolns-Missing-Bodyguard.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frederick_Parker http://www.secretservice.gov/protection_works.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_William_McKinley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Craig_%28Secret_Service%29