- Secret Service agent credited with saving the life of then-President Ronald Reagan after Reagan was shot by John Hinckley Jr. on March 30, 1981. Parr retired from the Secret Service in 1985, and became an ordained minister.
- His first protection assignment was John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the funeral of Eleanor Roosevelt. After Kennedy was assassinated, Parr was assigned to protect Marina Oswald, and Marguerite Oswald, the widow, and the mother, respectively, of Lee Harvey Oswald until completion of Marina's testimony before the Warren Commission.
- Celebrated his 50th birthday aboard Air Force One.
- When former Secret Service agent Jerry Parr was nine years old, his father took him to see the movie Code of the Secret Service (1939) starring Ronald Reagan. The film inspired young Jerry to become a Secret Service agent, and he was credited with saving Reagan's life during the 1981 assassination attempt.
- Jerry Parr was a 9-year-old boy when his father took him to see the movie Code of the Secret Service (1939) starring Ronald Reagan as dashing agent Brass Bancroft. The film inspired Jerry Parr to join the U.S. Secret Service, and he was widely credited with saving Reagan's life during the 1981 assassination attempt. Parr later told Reagan how the movie had influenced him to become a Secret Service agent. The president reportedly laughed and said, "That was the cheapest film I ever made.".
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