by Clint Hill
First published 2013
Secret Service Agent Clint Hill opens his account fifty years after the shots that changed everything. On November 22, 1963, in Dallas, three bullets shattered the world as President John F. Kennedy fell under Hill's protection. The agent who leaped onto the presidential limousine that day carries readers through the chaos that followed. Hill witnessed three-year-old John Kennedy Jr. begging to join his parents in Texas. He saw the jubilant crowds welcoming the Kennedys across the state. He stood near Lyndon Johnson during the hurried swearing-in ceremony. He watched Jackie Kennedy insist on walking through Washington's streets during the funeral procession. More than 150 photographs accompany Hill's insider perspective on these four days that ended an era. For the agent sworn to protect the first family, Kennedy's death became both a national tragedy and a deeply personal failure that haunted him for decades.
Genres: history, 20th-century, biography-memoir, american-history
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: insider-perspective, personal-failure
Setting: Dallas, Texas, Washington
Period: 1963, November 22, 1963
243 pages · Hardcover · Gallery Books