The US intelligence agent Clint Hill was responsible for protecting the first lady of the United States, Jacqueline Kennedy (Fireplace) after the election of the president John F. Kennedy.
From 1960 to 1964 he was by her side in every public appearance and he was with her on the fateful day of November in Dallas – when he jumped in the back of the open car in front of Jackie.
He retired from the secret services in 1975 and has since become a writer and public speaker.
He started writing his latest book «My Travels With Mrs. Kennedy » when he rediscovered a forgotten trunk in his basement full of me letters, photos and souvenirs from his travels with Jacqueline Kennedy in Europe, Asia and South America.
The book will be published on October 11 and for its cover a photo of Kennedy on a yacht on the Amalfi Coast was selected from the lens of the celebrity photographer, Mark Shaw.
Hill wrote with his wife, Lisa McCabin Hill the book, which will include more than 200 rare photosalong with the personal memories of the US intelligence agent from their travels.
“When you travel with someone, you experience things that can not be fully appreciated by anyone who has not been there,” Hill explained in the book’s description.
“The book takes you on that journey back in time through the eyes of Clint and Kennedy,” said McCabin Hill.
“It is very moving. It provides history, but it also shows how great an ambassador she was as America’s first lady. And there is the very sweet story of the wonderful relationship that she and Clint had. You feel the magic and the bond that develops in these journeys “, he notes.
“In the White House, it was tighter. “But as soon as we got away, she was more open, carefree, enjoying life,” the book’s author told People.
Hill has written two other books in the past: «Mrs. Kennedy and Me » issued in 2012 and «Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford», released in 2017.
Hill will forever be remembered as the intelligence agent who tried to save John’s life. F. Kennedy.
At 90, he was the last survivor in the Kennedy presidential limousine that day, following the death of Nelly Connolly, Texas’s former first lady, in 2006.
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