James L. 'Lee' Parker, Secret Service Agent, 70, Washington Post
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December 24, 2009
James L. 'Lee' Parker Secret Service Agent
James L. "Lee" Parker, 70, a U.S. Secret Service agent from 1965 to 1999 who
helped protect presidents and foreign dignitaries, died Nov. 20 [2009] at
Fairfax Nursing Center. He had brain cancer.
Mr. Parker, a Vienna resident, worked for Alexandria police and briefly for
the CIA before joining the Secret Service. Early in his Secret Service
career, he had a key role in designing a forensic identification laboratory.
Over the years, assignments took him from El Paso to Paris, and he spent the
early 1990s heading the global counterfeit division at Interpol in Lyon,
France.
While serving with the presidential protective division, he was guarding
President Gerald R. Ford when Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme and, later, Sara Jane
Moore tried to kill the president in 1975.
James Leon Parker was born in Gonzales, Tex., and he moved to Northern
Virginia when he was a teenager. He was a graduate of Mount Vernon High
School, where he played varsity baseball, basketball and football. He
received a bachelor's degree in administration of justice from American
University.
Survivors include his wife of 48 years, Linda Swartz Parker of Vienna; three
children, David Parker and Sharon Gingell, both of Fairfax County, and
Kristin Parker of Vienna; and six grandchildren.
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Adam Bernstein