Secret Service agent Clint Hill reveals the stories behind the iconic images of the Five tragic Days surrounding President John F.
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..
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.
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.
That agent was Clint Hill.
Kennedy.
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.
For an entire generation, it was the end of an age of innocence.
Kennedy was assassinated, and the world stopped for four days.
On November 22, 1963, three shots were fired in Dallas, President John F.
Kennedy\'s assassination in this 60th anniversary edition of the New York Times bestseller.
Secret Service agent Clint Hill reveals the stories behind the iconic images of the Five tragic Days surrounding President John F