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Oct 27, 2017 · Secret Service Agent Clinton Hill hangs on to the limousine carrying first lady Jacqueline Kennedy and the mortally-wounded president, in Dallas, November 22, 1963. Hill jumped onto the...
- JFK Assassination
University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato is an expert...
- JFK Assassination
During the assassination, Hill ran from the Secret Service followup car, behind the presidential limousine, leaped onto the back of it and shielded Jacqueline Kennedy and the stricken president with his body as the car raced to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
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Born in 1932, Clinton J. Hill grew up in North Dakota. After earning a history degree in college, he joined the Army and later applied to the Secret Service. But Hill’s first assignment wasn’t guarding the first family. Instead, he was sent to Denver, where President Dwight Eisenhower’s mother-in-law lived. After watching her home for a year, Hill ...
Days after the Kennedy assassination, Clint Hill wrote a statement recounting the entire event. “My instructions for Dallas were to work the left rear of the Presidential automobile and remain in close proximity to Mrs. John F. Kennedy at all times,” Hill wrote. As the motorcade drove through Dallas, Hill moved from the presidential limo to the Sec...
The Kennedy Assassination shocked the nation and tore apart the Kennedy family. It also hit the Secret Service hard. Clint Hill and his fellow agents felt responsible. As Jerry Blaine, another agent in Dallas on the day said, “We couldn’t help, but we felt like we failed. It was a terrible feeling.” Hill shared that sentiment. “I felt that there wa...
Oct 26, 2017 · On Nov. 22, 1963, Mr. Hill, long assigned to protect Jacqueline Kennedy, was positioned on the “running board” of the car behind the president’s, poised to move quickly if necessary. As the...
Nov 22, 2023 · Hill finished his stint with Jacqueline Kennedy in 1964 and went on to serve three more presidents afterward, but he still struggled with guilt after the assassination.
Nov 22, 2023 · Hill finished his stint with Jacqueline Kennedy in 1964 and went on to serve three more presidents afterward, but he still struggled with guilt after the assassination.
Nov 15, 2023 · Secret Service agent Clint Hill, right, leaped onto the back of JFK’s limousine as shots were fired in Dallas. He saved Jackie Kennedy, but it took Hill, 91, decades to deal with the trauma of the assassination.
