Secret Service Agents Open Up About Kennedy Assassination

Former Secret Service agent Clint Hill says providing security for President John F. Kennedy was a challenge since President Kenny was a mixed bag and didn't like anyone getting between him and the people. November 22, 1963 began like most presidential visits, even though it was in a part of the country, Texas, that was not enthusiastic about the president, this was an extremely conservative area. Kennedy was not labeled as a conservative in any way, so it was felt that some problems could arise, but we had no threats, there was no information that would lead us to believe that it was going to be a major problem when the president's motorcade made its way through D Plaza in Dallas Hill was in a vehicle behind the presidential limousine and heard an explosive noise in my right rear to At the rear of the motorcade I saw the president grab him by the neck and move to his left.

I knew something was wrong, so I jumped out and ran towards the presidential car with the idea of ​​climbing on it when it was about to reach the car. The third shot had been fired, hitting the president in the head and causing a massive wound that caused blood, brains and bone material to explode in the car, towards me, towards Mrs. Kennedy, she was trying to recover some material that It came off the president's head. the back right I grabbed it and did my best to put it back in the seat when I did that president fell to his left in his lap I got up on it and lay on it behind both of them and turned around and gave a thumbs up to the tracking car.

Something happened on the motorcyclist route. That event lasted less than a minute, but it marked Clint Hill for life. I feel guilty. I feel responsibility. I was the only agent who was in a position to do anything that day. The

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shook the nation and the Secret Service Clint Hill protected three more presidents but in 1975, overcome by depression, he retired in 2009. Author Lisa McCubbin requested an interview with Hill for a possible book and he had done an interview in 1975 with 60 Minutes That's a classic interview in which he basically had a nervous breakdown on television and has since gone into seclusion young encouraged by his agent friend and now author Gerald Blaine Hill and other

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in Dallas that day decided to speak out in part to document how it affected the murder.

Hill says the release last year of the Kennedy detail has been therapeutic, it's been very cathartic, and especially being able to go out and talk to people about the book, answer a lot of the questions they have because there are still a lot of questions. questions that there is a question that is often asked is whether or not there was more than one murderer that will represent the conclusions of the waren commission that concluded that LE Harvey Oswald was the only gunman Kane fabot VA news Chicago Illinois