Did the deep state just eliminate one of the last living people who knew the truth of the JFK assassination? OK, probably not.
Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who leaped onto the back of President John F. Kennedy’s limousine after the president was shot, then was forced to retire early because he remained haunted by memories of the assassination, died on Friday at the age of 93.
Hill died at his home in Belvedere, California, according to his publisher, Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. A cause of death was not given.
Hill’s death comes about a month before Congress is set to probe the JFK assassination as part of a renewed effort to provide transparency about the crime. The first hearing is set for March 26.
My @GOPOversight task force’s first hearing will be held on March 26 and will examine the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
We will also visit the site of the assassination in Dallas, TX, and speak with first-hand witnesses. Stay tuned!
— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) February 24, 2025
Although few may recognize his name, the footage of Hill, captured on Abraham Zapruder’s chilling home movie of the assassination, provided some of the most indelible images of Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
Hill received Secret Service awards and was promoted for his actions that day, but for decades blamed himself for Kennedy’s death, saying he didn’t react quickly enough and would gladly have given his life to save the president.
“If I had reacted just a little bit quicker. And I could have, I guess,” a weeping Hill told Mike Wallace on CBS’ 60 Minutes in 1975, shortly after he retired at age 43 at the urging of his doctors. “And I’ll live with that to my grave.”
It was only in recent years that Hill said he was able to finally start putting the assassination behind him and accept what happened.
On the day of the assassination, Hill was assigned to protect first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and was riding on the left running board of the follow-up car directly behind the presidential limousine as it made its way through Dealey Plaza.
Hill told the Warren Commission that he reacted after hearing a shot and seeing the president slump in his seat. The president was struck by…
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