O'Driscoll, Danny Papers

United States Secret Service Agent, 1943-1969

The papers of Danny O'Driscoll consist of U.S. Secret Service reports and training records, memorandums, and logs from Presidential inspection trips and conferences. The collection also includes personal records and correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

Size: 5 linear inches (about 800 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: Documents created by U.S. government employees in the course of their official duties are in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents in the collection presumably belongs to the creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Taylor Hersh (2013) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.

The Danny O'Driscoll Papers include logs of Presidential trips, Secret Service reports and training records, and memorandums mostly pertaining to his career with the Secret Service from 1943 to 1969. The collection also includes personal records and correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs. All materials in this collection are copies of original documents that were retained by the O'Driscoll family.

The collection contains President's Logs from the Berlin Conference, the 1944 Quebec Conference, the Crimea Conference, and inspection trips to the Pacific and Great Bitter Lake, Egypt. Also included is a proclamation by the heads of government of the United States, China, and the United Kingdom regarding Japanese surrender during World War II.

The Secret Service materials consist of "Employee's Monthly Activity" reports and records of training conducted by the Treasury Department. Memorandums associated with training, post-attack registration of federal employees, and the transfer of retirement funds are also included.

The collection contains correspondence related to the protection of the president and Danny O'Driscoll's work with the Secret Service. Personal records include reports on transfer of non-expendable property, personal history questionnaires, holiday cards, invitations, certificates, and biographical information about O'Driscoll.

Newspaper clippings and photographs relate to Secret Service training and duties as well as Presidential tours and platform appearances. Even though the majority of materials are from the Truman administration, there are also materials related to the Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Kennedy administrations.

Records of the U.S. Secret Service (Record Group 87) are open for research at the Truman Library.