Lyndon Johnson Was Nearly Shot By Secret Service?

I just saw this and wanted to share. Imagine what would have been if this incident had gone down differently. This truly could have been the US worst nightmare; as if Kennedy's asssassination wasn't bad enough. Here is a snippet of the article. Follow the link for the entire article.

As author and former Secret Service member Gerald Blaine explains, he was guarding Johnson's home in Washington the night after Kennedy was killed when he heard suspicious footsteps. Blaine loudly activated his submachine gun, hoping to warn the unknown figure off, but the footsteps continued. In Blaine's account, he brought the gun to his chest and put his finger on the trigger — only to see that the man was Johnson himself.

SOURCE: newsfeed.time.com...

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Sounds like a BS story to me.

He activated his sub machine gun? Does that mean that he chambered a rouund? Was there no rouund in the chamber prior to that? Why would a Secret Service agent have a weapon with no round in the chamber?

He did it to scare off the person? Why would the Secret Service want to scare off someone in the new president's residence? He should have made an attenmpt to capture him, not scare him off. Why scare him off only for him to return to commit a dastardly act instead of apprehending him?