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Saturday, December 21, 2013

JFK. 50 YEARS OF SILENCE


FIVE DAYS IN NOVEMBER
CLINT HILL WITH LISA McCUBBIN
GALLERY BOOKS, 2013



CLINT HILL'S  MEMORIES

Landing at Dallas

On November 22, when shots were fired during the motorcade in Dallas, there was a Secret Service agent who humped on the back of the car, attempting to protect President and Mrs  Kennedy.
That was me.

Unbeknownst to me, an Associated press photographer named James Altgens was on Elm Street in Dealey Plaza at the time of the assassination. He heard the shots, saw me run, and snapped a photo just as I climbed onto the back to the presidential limousine. that evening, and the next day, thhis photograph ran on the front pages of newspapers all over the world,. From that point on, I would forever be known as the Secret Service agent who jumped on the back of the car. and while that photo has become one of several iconic images that were captured on film during those pivotal days-moments of a national tragedy frozen in time-none of then standing alone tell the whole story.

On November 22, 1963, three shots were fired in Dallas, and the world stopped for four days. for an entire generation, it was the end of the age of innocence



CLINT HILL, FIFTY YEARS LATER