Kennedy’s lap in the back seat of the limousine, his eyes fixed, blood splattered all over the back of the car, Mrs. Kennedy, the one vivid image that never leaves Clint Hill’s mind is that of President Kennedy’s head lying on Mrs. Three and a half months later, the unthinkable happened.įorty-seven years after the assassination of President John F. on November 25, 1960, as well as for the birth and sudden death of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy on August 8, 1963.

Kennedy’s side for some of the happiest moments as well as the darkest. All she wanted was the one thing he could not give her: a private life for her and her children.įilled with unforgettable details, startling revelations, and sparkling, intimate moments, this is the once-in-a-lifetime story of a man doing the most exciting job in the world, with a woman all the world loved, and the tragedy that ended it all too soon? a tragedy that haunted him for fifty years.The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir by Clint Hill that Kirkus Reviews called “clear and honest prose free from salaciousness and gossip,” Jackie Kennedy’s personal Secret Service agent details his very close relationship with the First Lady during the four years leading up to and following President John F. But as soon as he met her, he was swept up in the whirlwind of her beauty, her grace, her intelligence, her coy humor, her magnificent composure, and her extraordinary spirit.įrom the start, the job was like no other, and Clint was by her side through the early days of JFK's presidency the birth of sons John and Patrick and Patrick's sudden death Kennedy-family holidays in Hyannis Port and Palm Beach Jackie's trips to Europe, Asia, and South America Jackie's intriguing meetings with men like Aristotle Onassis, Gianni Agnelli, and André Malraux the dark days of the year that followed the assassination to the farewell party she threw for Clint when he left her protective detail after four years. 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.

HILL.įor 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.

Mrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill