Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who ran into the line of fire to shield President John F. Kennedy and the first lady in Dallas on November 22, 1963, died Friday. He was 93 years old.
Hill’s heroic scramble to protect Jackie Kennedy in the moments after the president was shot became an indelible image of the 1963 assassination – a Secret Service agent leaping across the back of a limousine, pushing the first lady down from the trunk of the car into her seat to cover her and the fatally wounded president.
In a statement Monday, the US Secret Service praised Hill’s “unwavering dedication and exceptional service.”
