Posted on 02/24/2025 1:08:43 PM PST by Borges
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.
Hill died Friday at his home in Belvedere, California, according to his publisher, Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. A cause of death was not given.
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.
Hill received Secret Service awards and was promoted for his actions that day, but for decades blamed himself for Kennedy’s death, saying he didn’t react quickly enough and would gladly have given his life to save the president.
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NOW, can the documents on the JFK assassination be released? Was this the last guy?
we need all those files Gen. Bondi. still a lot of hurt for those of us old enough to remember that day.
Was he the one that finished JFK off when he got into the car?
Rest in peace, my good man.
That is an interesting theory. I never heard that. I was 4 1/2 when the assassination happened so I haven’t kept up on theories.
RIP
He was a good man.
Was he the one that finished JFK off when he got into the car?
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Where did you come up with that?
JFK was missing a lot of his head by the time Hill got into the car so he was already “finished off”.
Rest in peace, Sir.
Agreed! That was a disparaging remark about a hero. Not knowing if another shot was coming, he jumped on the back of the car to shield Jackie & JFK. A true hero.
There was one theory circulating some years ago that he accidentally shot Kennedy as he tried to provide cover.
👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you.
that weekend wasn’t exactly law enforcements finest hour...lose the President and the guy who shot him. Nice goin...yeesh.
Oh brother. There are some really sick people who create these so-called “theories”.
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