Clint Hill, Secret Service agent who leaped onto JFK’s car after the president was shot, dies at 93

AP: Hill later became the agent in charge of the White House protective detail and eventually an assistant director of the Secret Service, retiring because of what he characterized as deep depression and recurring memories of the assassination.

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AP Photo. Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who leaped onto the back of President John F. Kennedy’s limousine after the president was shot, then was forced to retire early because he remained haunted by memories of the assassination, has died. He was 93.

 

The picture above is in my mind forever!

I keep hearing of promises that many of the JKF assassination files, along with the files on RFK and Dr. Martin Luther King will be released to the public……It is high time we know the truth!

DECLASSIFICATION OF RECORDS CONCERNING THE ASSASSINATIONS OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY, SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY, AND THE REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

AP Reports

BELVEDERE, Calif. (AP) — Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who leaped onto the back of President John F. Kennedy’s limousine after the president was shot, then was forced to retire early because he remained haunted by memories of the assassination, has died. He was 93.

Although few may recognize his name, the footage of Hill, captured on Abraham Zapruder’s chilling home movie of the assassination, provided some of the most indelible images of Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. More Here

Kennedy was in a motorcade with his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, Nelly Connally. As the limousine turned into the plaza, crowds cheered the president. Nellie Connally told Kennedy, “Mr. President, they can’t make you believe now that there are not some in Dallas who love and appreciate you, can they?”. Kennedy replied, “No, they sure can’t”. Minutes later, Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed Kennedy. 

Kennedy’s last written words were on cards for the end of a speech he planned to give in Austin, Texas. In the speech, he wrote, “Our duty is not merely the preservation of political power but the preservation of peace and freedom”.

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