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Secret Service agent Clint Hill reveals the stories behind the iconic images of the five tragic days surrounding President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in this 60th anniversary edition of the New York Times bestseller.
On November 22, 1963, three shots were fired in Dallas, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world stopped for four days. For an entire generation, it was the end of an age of innocence.
That evening, a photo ran on the front pages of newspapers across the world, showing a Secret Service agent jumping on the back of the presidential limousine in a desperate attempt to protect the President and Mrs. Kennedy. That agent was Clint Hill.
Now Hill commemorates the sixtieth anniversary of the tragedy with this stunning book containing more than 150 photos, each accompanied by his incomparable insider account of those terrible days. A story that has taken Hill half a century to tell, this is a “riveting, stunning narrative” (Herald & Review, Illinois) of personal and historical scope. Besides the unbearable grief of a nation and the monumental consequences of the event, the death of JFK was a personal blow to a man sworn to protect the first family, and who knew, from the moment the shots rang out in Dallas, that nothing would ever be the same.
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“What this book—whose contents we’vewaited fifty years for—lacks in artistry, it makes up for in immediacy. Hillwas one of the Secret Service agents beside J.F.K.’s car at the time of hisassassination, and he managed to clamber onto the trunk in an attempt toprotect the chief executive and his wife. Hill continues to feel guilty overthe president’s death. His account offers new, minute details of the events inDallas and Washington, DC, immediately before and after J.F.K.’s death.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“A riveting, stunning narrative...Among hundreds of books about the assassination, this is the most compelling because Hill lived it.”
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“Since Hill was part of the secret service detail assigned to protect the president and his wife, his firsthand account of those days is unique…[with a] chronological approach, beginning before the presidential party even left the nation's capital on November 21…Chronology, photographs, and personal knowledge combine to make a memorable commemorative presentation.”
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“As the Secret Service agent in charge of the first lady’s detail, Hill is known for leaping onto the back of the car that carried the injured JFK, pushing Jackie back into the seat…The highlights are Hill’s personal remembrances.”
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“As Jacqueline Kennedy’s secret service guard, Hill leapt onto the car in Dallas after shots resounded and hung on for the race to the hospital. Here he offers a minute-by-minute insider’s account of unfolding events.”
— Library Journal
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About the Authors
Clint Hill is the New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Days in November. A former Secret Service agent who was in the presidential motorcade during the John F. Kennedy assassination, Hill remained assigned to Mrs. Kennedy until after the 1964 election. He then was assigned to President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House and later to Richard Nixon, eventually becoming the assistant director of the Secret Service for all protection. He retired in 1975.
Lisa McCubbin is an award-winning journalist who has worked as a television news anchor, reporter, and host of her own radio show. She also spent more than five years in the Middle East as a freelance writer. She is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Kennedy Detail.
About Jeremy Bobb
Jeremy Bobb is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and an accomplished actor whose film credits include The Knick, Godless, Mosaic, and The Wolf of Wall Street. He has performed in numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including Is He Dead? and Cactus Flower.