William Greer

"I'll send you the driver. We've trained him with PE2 in our labs, he shouldn't be any trouble."

―A member of Abstergo Industries in a letter to an associate, 1963.

William Greer holding John F. Kennedy's Apple of Eden

William Greer (1909 – 1985) was an agent of the United States Secret Service, best known for having driven President John F. Kennedy's automobile in the motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas on November 22, 1963, where the president was assassinated.

Greer was secretly a member of the Assassin Brotherhood, part of the Bloodstone Unit led by Boris Pash, which he joined as a soldier during the Vietnam War before being promoted to the Secret Service. The Unit was a cell of Assassin extremists, who were in fact the ones who killed Kennedy in order to steal his Apple of Eden for Pash's experimentations.

Biography

In January 1963, Greer was an officer serving in Vietnam as part of the Bloodstone Unit, a U.S. military team working for the CIA which was secretly composed of Assassins recruited by Boris Pash. Greer was eventually promoted to the Secret Service, but accomplished one last mission before leaving the country. While escorting CIA agent and undercover Templar Cooper on a covert mission, the Assassins kidnapped him and brought him to Pash, who interrogated Cooper to learn about the Templars' plans with the President of South Vietnam, Ngô Đình Diệm.

Greer in Dallas, moments after Kennedy's assassination

Several months later, the Bloodstone Unit infiltrated the Templars, with Greer being recruited by Abstergo Industries as part of their plan to kill Kennedy and recover his Apple of Eden. Having been trained using another artifact, his orders were to steal Kennedy's Piece of Eden in the chaos immediately following the assassination. He was also assigned to slow the vehicle down so the shooters could easily fire on Kennedy.

However, the Bloodstone Unit hijacked the Templars' plot, the shooters being in fact Greer's teammates, with the intent to bring the Apple to their leader, Boris Pash. As Greer was leaving the scene after stealing the Apple in the confusion, he was intercepted by Alekseï Gavrani, a fellow Assassin who had broken from the Unit after realizing that Pash was going too far. Failing to convince Gavrani that the Templar agent Lee Harvey Oswald was behind the assassination, Greer attacked his former teammate but was promptly beaten and knocked unconscious by Gavrani, who took the Apple afterwards.

Behind the scenes

Historically, William Greer joined the Secret Service in 1945 after being discharged from the U.S. Navy.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed II (glyphs only)
• Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone (first appearance)

References

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