His murder prompted the start of the F.B.I. and other Federal Laws.

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Joseph A. Walker was the first U.S. Secret Service agent to be killed in the line of duty. On Nov. 3, 1907, Joseph A. Walker was shot in the back by a shotgun blast while investigating a land fraud deal at a coal mine near Durango, Colo.

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