Classified Ad Seen As Assassination Threat Against Obama, Secret Service Investigating

AHN | May 31, 2009"

                  THIS IS A FOLLOW-UP TO A STORY I POSTED ON 5/29/09

Warren, PA (AHN) - A Pennsylvania town newspaper has publicly apologized for running a classified personal ad that may be an assassination threat against President Obama and reported the incident to the local police.

The Times Observer based in Warren also stopped running the ad that appeared on the newspaper's Thursday issue as the Secret Service was called in to investigate the person who placed the ad.

John Elchert, the publisher of Times Observer, said one advertising staff did not suspect anything wrong with the ad that read: "May Obama follow in the steps of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy!"

Upon realizing that all four presidents were assassinated, the newspaper reported the matter to the police.

The newspaper did not reveal the name of the person who placed the personal ad, but said the name was turned over to the Warren City Police, which forwarded it to federal authorities.