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Massachusetts company to protect JFK birthplace in Brookline

The house in Brookline, MA, in which John F. Kennedy was born in 1917, now administered as a National Historic Site, will be protected by a burglar and fire alarm system maintained by Special Agent Systems, Inc., of Watertown, MA.

The 37-year-old security company was awarded a contract valued at $16,560 by the National Park Service to provide daily alarm monitoring and maintenance services at the JFK site, as well as the Frederick Law Olmstead historic site, also in Brookline, and the Longfellow historic site in nearby Cambridge, MA.

Thousands of tourists visit the JFK site each year, says the National Park Service. "In 1967, the president’s mother returned here, where Kennedy spent his boyhood, and restored the house to her recollection of its 1917 appearance," the park service noted.

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