Normand P. Michaud v. United States

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted of having threatened the life of the President of the United States, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 871, 1 in a telephone conversation placed to the White House from a coin-operated telephone in Kanab, Utah. The verbal threat, received by a Secret Service agent at the White House, was contained in substantially the following language:

“I was in on the assassination of President Kennedy and I am going to kill President Johnson in the near future. I have sold some cattle and purchased a rifle with a scope. I have written a letter to the White House today…