Secret Service: Agent Who Lept to Protect Jackie Kennedy, Recognized by Home State
November 21, 2018
November 21, 2018
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Secret Service issued the following news release:
Clint Hill joined the Secret Service as a special agent in 1958 and served under five presidents. But he's probably best known as the agent who leapt onto the rear deck of President Kennedy's limousine in Dallas, Texas, in order to protect then-first Lady Jackie Kennedy after the president was shot. Among modern-day Secret Service agents, Hill is a legen . . .
Clint Hill joined the Secret Service as a special agent in 1958 and served under five presidents. But he's probably best known as the agent who leapt onto the rear deck of President Kennedy's limousine in Dallas, Texas, in order to protect then-first Lady Jackie Kennedy after the president was shot. Among modern-day Secret Service agents, Hill is a legen . . .