The Secret Service agent who was too late to save President John F. Kennedy from an assassin’s bullets 55 years ago says that the gruesome scene — and his guilt over not acting more quickly — plunged him into a decades-long, alcohol-fueled depression that tore him from his family and nearly killed him.
Clint Hill was assigned to guard Kennedy’s motorcade in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, when former Marine Lee Harvey Oswald squeezed off three shots from his bolt-action Carcano rifle, killing the young president.
Hill leapt into action trying to shield the president, but got to him only after the second bullet shattered Kennedy’s skull.
“I can see the gunshot wound. In the room that’s in the skull I can see that there is no more brain matter left,” Hill told The Sun newspaper of the UK.
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Sad for him and his family. It Was Not his fault.
ReplyDeleteBlame Johnson and all the Americans killed in Vietnam due to Johnson.
ReplyDeleteIt seems that he has been indoctrinated into believing the BS Warren Report.
ReplyDeletei don't believe it was Oswald who killed him. I agree with Jackie O..
ReplyDeleteWhy wasn't he and his coworkers riding on the foot rails of the rear of the car?
ReplyDeleteThat would have prevented the shot from being possible.
(as if it was in fact possible)
Mr Kennedy was obviously shot from the front.