When he was initially assigned to the new First Lady, Agent Hill envisioned tea parties and gray-haired matrons. Now, looking back fifty years, Clint Hill tells his story for the first time, offering a tender, enthralling, and tragic portrayal of how a Secret Service agent who started life in a North Dakota orphanage became the most trusted man in the life of the First Lady who captivated first the nation and then the world. During those four years, he went from being a reluctant guardian to a fiercely loyal watchdog and, in many ways, her closest friend. KENNEDY’S PROFILES IN COURAGEįor four years, from the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in November 1960 until after the election of Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Clint Hill was the Secret Service agent assigned to guard the glamorous and intensely private Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. All Rights Reserved.INSCRIBED IN A COPY OF JOHN F. It is thought this information blackout was arranged to give John Wilkes Booth - who was fleeing from the scene of the crime - a head start. remained silent for three hours on the orders of a high-ranking official who has never been identified. When Lincoln was shot, the telegraph lines out of Washington D.C. Hours before Lincoln was shot, he said to his personal guard, "If somebody wants to take my life, there is nothing I can do prevent it."Īnd hours before Kennedy went to Dallas in 1963, he said to his wife Jackie, "If somebody wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it, so why worry about it?"Īnd finally, both presidents were said to have been victims of a conspiracy.
On the day of the assassinations Kennedy and Lincoln made strange prophetic statements. Kennedy and Lincoln were both historic civil rights campaigners who were heavily criticised while in office but where glorified after they died. Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre.īoth assassinations took place on a Friday, and the two presidents were shot in the back of the head while their wives were at their side. Stranger still, the car Kennedy was travelling in when he was shot was a Ford Lincoln. John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and ran to a warehouse, and Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and ran to a theatre. Kennedy had a secretary named Miss Lincoln, and Lincoln had a secretary named John Kennedy. John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald both had fifteen letters in their name, and were both Southerners, were both in their 20s, and of course, both assassins were shot before they could stand trial. Mary Lincoln and Jackie Kennedy both had children who died while their husbands were in the White House. Both Johnsons have 13 letters in their names and both of them served in the US Senate. Lincoln was succeeded by Andrew Johnson, who was born in 1808, and Kennedy was succeeded by Lyndon Johnson, who was born in 1908.
After their deaths from assassination, both of these presidents were succeeded by Southerners with the surname Johnson. Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846, Kennedy was elected 100 years later, almost to the day in fact.
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