Mrs. Kennedy and Me

By Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin Hill,

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Clint Hill will forever be remembered as the agent who jumped onto the car after President Kennedy was shot and clung to the sides of the car as it sped toward the hospital. Now, in Mrs. Kennedy and Me, he recounts those painful memories along with his fonder recollections of…

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I was a second-grader at St Albert the Great School in Louisville, KY, on November 22, 1963. It was the week before Thanksgiving, and we were coloring pictures of pilgrims. Suddenly, our principal appeared at the door. We were told that President Kennedy had been shot and that we were going to church to pray for him. Soon word came that the president had died. The next day’s newspaper pictured Mrs. Kennedy’s Secret Service agent, Clint Hill, jumping up on the trunk deck of the presidential limousine in Dallas, after the fatal shots, as he saved the First Lady from…

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