JFK assassination - Clint Hill (1 Viewer)

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I just read that Clint Hill passed away this week. He was the last surviving person from the JFK assassination car. He was on the sideboard of the secret service car following behind the JFK limo when the first shots were fired. He leaped off the car, ran to the presidential limo, and climbed onto trunk while the car was still moving and while shots were still being fired. A very brave act but alas not in time. He rode to Parkland hospital sitting upright on the back of the seat behind the president. Toward the end of his life, he wrote a couple of books about his time in the secret service - primarily as the agent responsible for Jackie Kennedy. Fate can be a terrible thing. Hill did everything possible, but he must have relived that moment for the rest of his life thinking just a step or two faster and history might have been changed. Perhaps there would not even have been a war in Vietnam.