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Joins th secret service.
Clint Hill joined the Secret Service in 1957 after being in the Army. -
Working for JFK
Clint Hill was assigned to protect the first lady. -
JFK Assasination
President gets shot and Mr. HIll jumps on the car to protect the first lady and help the President. -
Assasination quote
" The right rear portion of his head was missing. It was lying in the rear seat of the car. His brain was exposed. There was blood and bits of brain all over the entire rear portion of the car." -
Trying to save JFK
They rushed the pesident o the hospital but despite their efforts, he died. -
Clint stays in the secret service
Mr. Hill works for the First lady until after the election of 1964 -
His retirement
he finally retired after 17 years in the secret service -
interview in 1975
"In a 1975 interview with Mike Wallace, Hill tearfully surmised that if he had reached the vehicle a second earlier, he would have been able to take the third shot to his own body, and felt a great deal of regret for not having been able to reach there in time." -
interview on BBC
during the interview when asked if there was chance that the President could be saved, he said "He had all the advantages that day. We had none. And it was a very easy job to accomplish because of the way everything was laid out. -
He writes a book
"In April 2012, the book Mrs. Kennedy and Me was published, in which Hill looked back at his career and described his working relationship with Jacqueline Kennedy."
