![]() Hill's specific assignment during the Kennedy administration was to protect First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. The 13-city book tour Hill is making across the country stops in La Jolla Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Hill has learned to cope with what happened by talking about it and has written two books about his years in the Secret Service, most recently in " Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford."įree, reserved seating available with advance purchase of book "I still have a sense of failure that we did not protect the president," Hill said of the day that never leaves him and that for many years did not give him any rest. It was Hill who jumped onto the back of the car carrying the president and first lady within moments of the shots that rang out in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, where JFK was shot and killed. "He knew if they were married, if they were single, if they had children. "He knew all of the agents by name, he called all of them by their first name, took time to talk to each and every one of them," Hill said. Hill served on the presidential detail with the Secret Service from 1958 to 1975 under Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.īut the presidency he is most closely tied to, that he had the strongest emotional connection, is the 1,037 days Hill spent serving under John F. At various times throughout the day, every day, the 84-year-old is taken back to Nov. ![]()
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