Remembering the Assassination of JFK

Many people have wondered what the world might have been like... but for that day in Dallas when U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Few likely think about it as much as Clint Hill. He was the secret service agent who jumped onto the back of the presidential limousine, moments after the shots were fired. He joins us to talk about that awful day of fifty years ago.

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It's often said that people remember exactly where they were when they heard U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Secret service agent Clint Hill can hardly forget. He had a back seat view of it all.

The killing of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy began a cascade of events, even political instability, that still reverberates. Few people were closer to the drama in Dallas than Clint Hill. He'll be forever known as the secret service agent who jumped on the back of the Presidential limousine seconds after the gunfire began.

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Clint Hill looks back at those dramatic and traumatic days in his new book Five Days in November. He was in Dearborn, Michigan.

* Warning: Clint Hill was beside the President at the time he was shot, and his descriptions are graphic. *

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This segment was produced by The Current's Howard Goldenthal.