Former Secret Service agent Clint Hill recounts the braveness of Jackie Kennedy in the course of the Cuban Missile Disaster in 1962.
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Jackie Kennedy was ready to die in the course of the tense days of the Cuban Missile Disaster in 1962, in keeping with revelations in a brand new guide by the previous first girl’s Secret Service bodyguard.
When he provided to cover Kennedy and her kids, John and Caroline, in the course of the nuclear standoff between the Soviet Union and the US, Kennedy declined.
Jackie Kennedy and her daughter seen strolling into W. Averell Harriman’s residence on December 6, 1963.
Hill, together with former President John F. Kennedy, Charles Spalding, and others throughout a hike alongside the Sunshine Parkway in Florida in 1963.
As a substitute, the First Girl mentioned “she would take John and Caroline and stroll on the legislation like courageous troopers and face the identical destiny of each different American,” Clint Hill, 90, wrote in a tweet commemorating the sixtieth anniversary this week of the disaster that noticed the world on the verge of nuclear struggle.
Hill, who has labored as a Secret Service agent for 5 presidents, tells that story and others in his new memoir, “My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy,” a part of which was lately excerpted in Folks Journal.
An image of former President John F. Kennedy moments after his assassination, with Mrs. Kennedy leaning over his physique on Nov. 22, 1963.
Mike Wallace (proper) interviews former agent Hill in October 1975.
Hill, who has written different books about his time within the White Home, notes his torment in not with the ability to save President John F. Kennedy when he was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas.
“Guilt and anguish consumed me,” writes Hill, who was 31 on the time. “All I might take into consideration was Dallas. I used to be operating as quick as I might, my arm reaching for the handholds on the trunk but it surely was like my legs have been in quicksand. Mrs. Kennedy climbing out of the again seat, her terrified eyes trying however not seeing me like I wasn’t there.”
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