60th anniversary of JFK assassination: Retired Secret Service agent shares firsthand account 

RIP President Kennedy. You are still missed.

Thank you for this very peaceful and beautiful interview. With all the interviews I've seen, you are one of the most compassionate and professional ones. Mr. Hill has a beautiful spirit. I was teary eyed watching him.

I was 12 that year. I'm crying like it was yesterday instead of 60 yrs ago. I would like to thank Clint Hill. He did his best. I remember the monsignor of our church coming into our class and informing us that the president had died.. my generation has seen so very much, this is one of the saddest and most horrific.

John F. Kennedy was a great president. He was the right leader for the times. Those times changed, and America was never the same after November 22, 1963.

I was 10 years old. I remember our principal coming in our classroom, sobbing and telling us President Kennedy had been assassinated. I remember feeling so sad. I also saw Ruby who it Oswald in live TV. That was truly upsetting. To this day, my gut just wrenches for Jackie. I can't even imagine how she felt. Just a heartbreaking day.

“The entire back of the car was covered in blood and brains.” Ah, and that is where shot came from?

I keep wishing this story would end differently but it never does 😢

Thank you, agent Clint Hill,

You are still a hero. God bless you.

1. Strip the president's security detail 2. Remove the convertible top from the car 3. Set up patsy to take the fall 4. Compromise the communications CONCLUSION: ~ Classic government coup d'etat

I was a 10 year old student in grade 3 in rural Québec when the school director, a nun, came in the classroom to tell us about the president's assasination. I consider this sad moment as the first spark of my taking conscience of the world surrounding me.

I never will forget that day. Walter Cronkite telling the world that President Kennedy was dead. My mom cried for hours......

Sixty years ago today with such a terrible event. I was in high school and everyone was crying. I'll never forget it!

Hill says there was a hole about the size of his palm above the right ear of the presidents head. However the official government autopsy pictures of the back of JFK's head only shows a small bullet hole about the size of a dime or so and no palm size hole what so ever. These pictures certainly do not support what agent Hill said he saw immediately after the shooting. The Parkland Hospital Doctors who attended JFK when he was brought in,said they saw a large gapping wound in the right posterior section of the presidents head. Hill's observations pretty much align with the Parkland Doctors observations as far as the location and relative size of the wound in the back of the president's head.This leads a person to believe that either the autopsy pictures were forged or the pictures were of someone else's head. If this is the case then that also would lead a person to believe that there was a conspiracy after the fact to hide the true direction and number of shots fired at the president. The parkland doctors also said that they saw a small bullet hole of ENTRANCE in the front of the throat, before they inserted a breathing tube in the president to assist his breathing. These differences alone raise enough suspicion for a person to question the official warren commision report.

Rip sir you are a great peace loving president!

I remember when they showed the full Zapruder film during the news in 1983. Unbelievable .

You should have told the truth then contesting the warren commission

I really hate what took place in Dallas Texas 1963 terrible 😢 it was despicable.

I was 11 years old when this happened and at school when I heard the news. The incident where Jack Ruby shot Oswald and my mom and dad telling me that they actually saw it happen on TV. These events still haunt me today!!

Anyone that believe Oswald acted alone is living in a fantasy land

What a real American Hero 👏 this is a great man. Thank you Clint Hill 🙏

Kennedy would be considered a right wing conservative by today’s standards

Rest in peace, President Kennedy, Mrs Kennedy, John Kennedy.

Can't believe it's sixty years - a day I will never forget.

The people in the United States were cohesive and together during WWII and thereafter. It was unimaginable to think that would fall apart, yet it did. After the death of JFK and the wild sixties, the world was never the same; and never will be.

I was 9 yrs old then, with my mom visiting her friend. I remember my mom and many people in the neighborhood came out crying.

Most of the Secret Service went out drinking the night before and did not have the capacity to guard the President the next day. They also did not look into securing the windows of buildings along the route. This is unforgivable because there had been a grave warning for JFK's safety in Chicago a few months earlier where they saw that he could be shot from a window by s high-powered rifle. JFK cancelled the trip to Chicago but went to Dallas to meet his ultimate fate. There also was no reprimand after the assassination, The Secret Service at Parkland Hospital DID follow LBJ's orders to clean the limo and drive it back quickly to Love Field to be flown back to Washington. The Secret Service also held the Dallas police at gunpoint when it was also ordered that JFK's body was to be also flown back to Washington. All of this was destruction of a crime scene and preventing an autopsy and obstructing justice and proper investigation by Dallas police. So was this a conspiracy and a coup exactly 60 years ago today?

He's an elder now, has "thought about this every day" and has convinced himself of what he believes. An overwhelming majority of knowledgeable people don't agree.

RIP JFK

So why didn't you speak 60 years ago

I was in 4th grade ,Ditmar school. Like it was yesterday.

Can’t imagine the horror, shock and disbelief for those who saw this happen. I world have had nightmares.

This interview is ten years old, but Mr. Hill is still with us at 91. We tend to think of Secret Service agents as middle-aged men, but some of President Kennedy's bodyguards were in their twenties and thirties.

It so hard to believe this was 60 years ago…its still painful the country was never the same after

Let’s hope more papers are released on this 60th anniversary

“The Men Who Killed Kennedy” on RU-vid is by far the best documentary. Filled with original interviews

At 12:25 today I yelled back through the 60 years for him to not go on into Dealey Plaza. (It is 22/11/23 here)

LBJ was the One who benefit from Jfk,s death.

Great interview, thank you. I always wondered about the secret service agent riding on the back.

'We had a god dam murder inc' in the Caribean'. Lyndon Johnson.

Other than Clint Hill and Marina Porter (remarried after Oswald's death) 60 years later, who is left that is Closest to these events that Is still alive?

Saddest day of my young life. Have NEVER FORGOTTEN!!

Clint's account only adds further doubt that he knew what had actually occurred. He was running and could not even hear a second shot. He arrived running at back of vehicle when the fatal headshot occurred. He's seems to be unclear as to whether he saw it or just heard it, but he was in no position to know where it came from. It seems to have been an exploding bullet, which Oswald's shots were not. That is left out of his reasoning about what happened, just as it was in the Warren Commission Report. Also that they only found two matching spent shell casings in Oswalds 6th floor lair. I might put my money on ballistic expert Donohue's conclusion that it was an accidental shot fired from the Secret Service AR-15 rifle in the trailing car, from a nervous guy only 4 months on the job, when the cars started to speed up after the first two shots. The guy was falling back in his seat with his finger on the trigger. He says ballistics fits that analysis, however it does not explain why Kennedy's head went "back and to the left" (which supports a shot from the grassy knoll). But in either case, that bullet does not seem the same as those fired from Oswalds rifle. And as for the number of shots fired, certainly silencers would have been used by any co-conspirators who planned to get away so who knows how many shots were fired. Except Oswald had the one gun everyone would hear, which was the way to make him the "patsy."

I remember as if it was yesterday. I was 11 years old. Best President ever.

This a sad reminder of this occasion .

Sad time for America

RIP John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) and J.D. Tippit (1924-1963)

Highly probable the fatal shot was from the grassy knoll.

I have read that all the agents were out all night drinking till early hours so they were either still drunk or hungover. Maybe at Ruby’s place or a friend of his strip joint. He needs to be asked about that and explain it.

As if it was just yesterday. 😢

I remember that morning very clearly. I was in Gr 9 typing class and an announcement of President Kennedy’s death came over the P.A. system and we were all sent home. We were horrified and so very saddened upon hearing this terrible news.😢 🇨🇦

Clint Hill...a American Hero 🇺🇸🇺🇸

A loved man and terrible unforgettable day. But he had a lot of people wanting him taken out let’s not forget. They were closely watching LHO and had taken him off the flash list two weeks prior to the assassination. And I totally believe they used him as an escape goat. The secret servicemen weren’t informed about a cancelled trip and risk to Presidents life in Chicago by an organised group of 4 shooters. It was far too risky to have an open motorcade and they knew it. A sad day that could have been avoided. A time and date in history that will never be forgotten.

Great man in world history and holelife work for peace.

LBJ and CIA.

There’s hardly any sound on this video. Can’t watch

Thank you for this👍

My question. What did the other secret service agents do when they heard the shots. Where was the Presidents secret service agent?

Don’t blame yourself God bless youb

I lived in DC when this happpened. Johnson and Dulles croaked the prez...

Has anyone heard anything about why Oswald killed JFK we seem very distracted by the how but never the why. Maybe that would explain why Jack Ruby killed Oswald.

Hoover, LBJ, Mac Wallace, Oswald, Mafia !

Our own president won,t release the final documents, 60 yrs. later.

It wasn't recognized at the time, but Clint Hill probably suffered from what's now known as PTSD from that day on, as did most of the people that were in close proximity to the scene. Something like that just never leaves you.

Some of those SS agents could very well be involved.

Why was Clint Hill the only Secret Service agent to run the presidential motorcade to shield the president? He was assigned to Jackie Kennedy. Why did the others stay in the Secret Service car???

Hill's account seems to support the shots-from-behind account and to argue against the prospect of shots from any other direction. Bravo Agent Hill and RIP JFK.

I can't believe it has already been 60 years ago of his assassination. Most of the people gave him some excitement until it turned tragic.

Truth is, we will never know the truth

Peggy & Robert Louis Abel Senior were 18 years old and loved JFK! Sad day!!!

In Europe, JFK is still greatly revered and respected today. Many squares, large main streets, large buildings, bridges, monuments, parks, etc. bear his name. Greetings from Vienna

Why is the sound so bad?

I wonder who was all involved.

The problem is that when you want to solve a crime u take all the info available and sift thru it and use that to make a conclusion . But what they're doing is coming to a conclusion and dismissing information that doesnt fit their opinion. You use all info to form an opinion. Like they're completely dismissing the fact that Carlos Marcello and v. High up CIA stated on deathbed that they had JFK killed. The fact Oswald was an Intelligence operative and highly intelligent. That he had top secret security clearances stationed in Japan st Atsugi air bsse as expert photo analyst and radar. He examined photos our U2 spy planes over USSR produced. He was sent to Russia in hopes of finding the name of the MOLE in our Intel community. At the time my brother was deeply involved in serving our nations defense. He was Naval intel 1962 till 1969 then CIA n Vietnam 3 yrs. I heard him say to Mom in 1968 at time of Pueblo incident just as i was headed out door we think we have a mole n thats all i heard. It was secret service who failed the President. Slight security. Out drinking till 5 n morning. JFKs car nearly stopping on Elm Street. The motorcade route change, at first shot evasive action wasnt taken driver was to speed up and swerve back n forth none was done.

Nobody knows what really happened they don't know if Lee Harvey Oswald was the only gunmen and they will not ever know because Oswald was murdered.

November 22, 2023......it is looking to be the same gloomy kind of November day as it was 60 years ago, November 22, 1963 when I heard the President had been shot.

when America changed, and the fate of 58,000 americans were sealed

If RFK became President in 1968 Clint Hill would have been made Secret Service Chief by RFK. That's how much the Kennedy's loved Clint Hill.

The Truth will set us free.

It is vital to remember that both President John Fitzgerald Kenndy (11/22/1963) and his brother Senator Robert Francis Kennedy (06/06/1968) were supportive of the newly formed State of Israel.

Clint Hill does a great disservice by blaming JFK for not having sufficient Secret Service Protection that day. Every single agent was in the Motorcade. There never was any thought about having agents on the knoll which was the OBVIOUS location for possible shooters. Hill's greatest contribution to the truth that day was his description of the wound in JFK's head.

"ANNIVERARY" IS A WORD USED IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CELELBRATION OF AN EVENT, SUCH AS A MARRIAGE.🙈🥺😬😫

I was 10, lived in Ridley Park,Pennsylvania when my teacher was asked by another teacher to step outside and when I had heard the word shots, I thought that there were going to shot given in school which I didn’t like getting, then my teacher told us that the President was shot and we were going next for to the next class to watch the CBS news reporting by the late Walter Cronkite told of the assassination of President John F.Kennedy. When I got home from school my late mother told me that President Kennedy had died. I was shocked,stunned. None of us played outside that Friday after school, that Saturday,November 23rd. Was a rainy day on the East Coast in Philadelphia,Baltimore,Washington,DC

IT BEEN THAT LONG 60 YEARS

Secret service was complicit. Just saying.

There's so much you didn't show

This guy is lying the president never told the agents to stay away from the car. Other agents said jfk never told them to stay away from the car. This guy should be in jail for getting drunk the night before the assassination.

BS. An agent was seen showing frustration at being told to get off the car.

5:30 Understandable ..since JFK was blessed with a magnificent head of hair

A lot of the people commenting here say they'll never forget but they seem to forget that there were only 4 people in the car that day and now there's six in a different bigger limo.Oh well.

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Waited All These Years ( Murder)

Are there any studies on the impact this had on American children who witnessed this?

5 VOLUME SET: "Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government's Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK" VOLUME 1 of 5: Douglas Horne served on the staff of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) during the final three years of its four-year lifespan, from 1995 to 1998, and is the first U.S. government official involved with the medical evidence to allege a coverup in President Kennedy's autopsy, and in the creation of the autopsy photographs and x-rays. This book, the product of over 13 years of writing and research, provides the best explanation yet offered of the true nature of the medical coverup in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and does so in meticulous detail, with scrupulous use of primary source material. It incorporates the latest information---much of it new evidence not revealed elsewhere---gleaned from the ARRB's depositions and interviews of medical witnesses, conducted from 1996 to 1998. With precise accuracy, and with a relentless focus on the massive fraud uncovered in the official records of the 35th President's assassination, Horne presents a persuasive case that the assassination of JFK was an "inside job," a true coup d'etat in America, that was ruthlessly and brazenly covered up by those who 'broke the back of the American century' in Dallas on November 22, 1963. IN VOLUME ONE, THE AUTHOR EXPLAINS THE ORIGINS AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSASSINATION RECORDS REVIEW BOARD (ARRB), AND RELATES HOW HE CAME TO JOIN THAT EFFORT IN 1995. HE PRESENTS AN OVERVIEW OF THE MAJOR CONFLICTS WITHIN THE MEDICAL EVIDENCE IN THE JFK CASE, AND TAKES THE READER INSIDE THE ARRB TO WITNESS ITS DEPOSITIONS OF THE THREE MILITARY PATHOLOGISTS WHO PERFORMED JFK'S AUTOPSY. HE COMMENCES HIS LONG EXAMINATION OF THE MANY PROBLEMS WITH THE COLLECTION OF AUTOPSY PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES (WHICH IS CONCLUDED IN VOLUME TWO). ALL OF THE NINETY (90) ILLUSTRATIONS FOR THE FIVE VOLUME SET ARE INCLUDED IN VOLUME ONE. (Second Printing---with corrections entered---now for sale.) VOLUME 2 of 5: Douglas Horne served on the staff of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) during the final three years of its four-year lifespan, from 1995 to 1998, and is the first U.S. government official involved with the medical evidence to allege a coverup in President Kennedy's autopsy, and in the creation of the autopsy photographs and x-rays. This book, the product of over 13 years of writing and research, provides the best explanation yet offered of the true nature of the medical coverup in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and does so in meticulous detail, with scrupulous use of primary source material. It incorporates the latest information---much of it new evidence not revealed elsewhere---gleaned from the ARRB's depositions and interviews of medical witnesses, conducted from 1996 to 1998. With precise accuracy, and with a relentless focus on the massive fraud uncovered in the official records of the 35th President's assassination, Horne presents a persuasive case that the assassination of JFK was an "inside job," a true coup d'etat in America, that was ruthlessly and brazenly covered up by those who 'broke the back of the American century' in Dallas on November 22, 1963. IN VOLUME TWO, THE AUTHOR CONCLUDES HIS EXHAUSTIVE STUDY OF THE AUTOPSY PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, AND PRESENTS THE READER WITH AN EQUALLY THOROUGH ANALYSIS OF THE AUTOPSY X-RAYS, PROVING THAT THE THREE JFK SKULL X-RAYS IN THE OFFICIAL RECORD ARE FORGED, COMPOSITE COPY-FILMS (FORGERIES) CREATED FROM THE AUTHENTIC X-RAYS OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S SKULL TAKEN AT THE AUTOPSY. HE ALSO RELATES THE RESULTS OF THE ARRB'S CRUCIAL INTERVIEWS WITH THE MORTICIANS WHO PREPARED THE PRESIDENT FOR BURIAL, AND WITH PARKLAND HOSPITAL WITNESSES WHO HAD NEVER BEEN INTERVIEWED BY THE GOVERNMENT PREVIOUSLY. VOLUME 3 of 5: Douglas Horne served on the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) during the final 3 years of its 4-year lifespan, from 1995 to 1998, and is the first U.S. government official involved with the medical evidence to allege a coverup in President Kennedy's autopsy, and in the creation of the autopsy photos and x-rays. This book, the product of over 13 years of writing and research, provides the best explanation yet offered of the true nature of the medical coverup in the assassination of JFK, and does so in meticulous detail, with scrupulous use of primary source material. It incorporates the latest information---much of it new evidence not revealed elsewhere---gleaned from the ARRB's depositions and interviews of medical witnesses. With precise accuracy, and with a relentless focus on the massive fraud uncovered in the official records of the 35th President's assassination, Horne presents a persuasive case that the assassination of JFK was an "inside job," a true coup d'etat in America, that was ruthlessly and brazenly covered up by those who 'broke the back of the American century' in Dallas on November 22, 1963. IN VOLUME THREE, THE AUTHOR RELATES THE IMPORTANCE OF THE OBSERVATIONS OF THE TWO FBI AGENTS WHO WERE PRESENT AT JFK'S AUTOPSY; REVISITS THE CRUCIAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE DALLAS TREATING PHYSICIANS WHO SAW PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S WOUNDS AT PARKLAND HOSPITAL (BEFORE THEY WERE LATER SURGICALLY ALTERED, AT BETHESDA NAVAL HOSPITAL, IN AN ATTEMPT TO CHANGE HISTORY); AND EXPLAINS IN DETAIL HOW INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT CORRUPTED THE CASE BY PLACING FRAUD IN THE EVIDENCE. THE MEDICAL EVIDENCE IN THE CASE WAS HOPELESSLY TAINTED BY THE INSERTION OF DECEPTIVE PHOTOGRAPHS OF A SUBSTITUTE BRAIN INTO THE OFFICIAL RECORD; BY REWRITING THE AUTOPSY REPORT; AND THROUGH THE CREATION OF AN INTENTIONALLY DISHONEST AND MISLEADING COLLECTION OF AUTOPSY PHOTOGRAPHS AND X-RAYS VOLUME 4 of 5: Douglas Horne served on the staff of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) during the final three years of its four-year lifespan, from 1995 to 1998, and is the first U.S. government official involved with the medical evidence to allege a coverup in President Kennedy's autopsy, and in the creation of the autopsy photographs and x-rays. This book, the product of over 13 years of writing and research, provides the best explanation yet offered of the true nature of the medical coverup in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and does so in meticulous detail, with scrupulous use of primary source material. It incorporates the latest information---much of it new evidence not revealed elsewhere---gleaned from the ARRB's depositions and interviews of medical witnesses, conducted from 1996 to 1998. With precise accuracy, and with a relentless focus on the massive fraud uncovered in the official records of the 35th President's assassination, Horne presents a persuasive case that the assassination of JFK was an "inside job," a true coup d'etat in America, that was ruthlessly and brazenly covered up by those who 'broke the back of the American century' in Dallas on November 22, 1963. IN VOLUME FOUR, THE AUTHOR CONSTRUCTS A DETAILED TIMELINE OF WHAT REALLY HAPPENED INSIDE THE BETHESDA MORGUE AFTER PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S BODY ARRIVED, AND ALSO SUMMARIZES THE OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE OF CROSSFIRE (AND THEREFORE CONSPIRACY) IN DEALEY PLAZA. HE ALSO PRESENTS THE STRONGEST CASE YET MADE FOR ALTERATION OF THE ZAPRUDER FILM OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S ASSASSINATION, DETAILING THE "WHY, HOW, WHERE, AND WHEN" OF THE FILM'S ALTERATION. THE ALTERATION OF THE ZAPRUDER FILM WENT HAND-IN-GLOVE WITH THE ALTERATION OF THE MEDICAL EVIDENCE IN THE CASE, AS THE AUTHOR EXPLAINS. VOLUME 5 of 5: Douglas Horne served on the staff of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) during the final 3 years of its 4-year lifespan, from 1995 to 1998, and is the first U.S. government official involved with the medical evidence to allege a coverup in JFK's autopsy, and in the creation of the autopsy photos and x-rays. This book, the product of over 13 years of writing and research, provides the best explanation yet offered of the true nature of the medical coverup in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and does so in meticulous detail, with scrupulous use of primary source material. It incorporates the latest information---much of it new evidence not revealed elsewhere---gleaned from the ARRB's depositions and interviews of medical witnesses. With precise accuracy, and with a relentless focus on the massive fraud uncovered in the official records of the 35th President's assassination, Horne presents a persuasive case that the assassination of JFK was an "inside job," a true coup d'etat in America, that was ruthlessly and brazenly covered up by those who 'broke the back of the American century' in Dallas on November 22, 1963. IN VOLUME FIVE, THE AUTHOR EXPLAINS THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT IN WHICH THE ASSASSINATION OCCURRED: A MAELSTROM OF TURBULENT DOMESTIC POLITICS DISTORTED BY THE CORRUPTION OF INDIVIDUAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, AND BY THE TENSIONS AND STRESSES OF THE COLD WAR BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION. HE PRESENTS A COMPELLING CASE THAT THE ASSASSINATION OF JFK WAS A CONSENSUS DECISION MADE BY KEY PLAYERS IN THE NATIONAL SECURITY ESTABLISHMENT, WHO BOTH FEARED AND DESPISED JFK'S BOLD AND PROGRESSIVE FOREIGN POLICY INITIATIVES. DETERMINED TO PREVENT HIM FROM ENDING THE COLD WAR, THIS CABAL (WHICH WANTED TO WIN THE COLD WAR, NOT END IT) CAST A VETO ON HIS LIFE SO THAT HE COULD NOT IMPLEMENT IRREVERSIBLE CHANGES TO THE WORLD ORDER IN A SECOND TERM.

Clint Hill, the man who has a habit of always changing his story. Can't be relied on.

Sad day for America when cards were shown 🃏

I always find it interesting that those who believe in some conspiracy don’t believe what the people who were actually there saw and heard. I will take Hill’s version of the events over anyone else’s

The sound is really bad

I would think any hidden dirt would come out from someone's diary of the past that tells what really happened? Peggy Lee 1969 - Is That All There Is? Then let's keep dancing. 🤔 RIP JFK.

It's late autumn 1963, Saturday-- I'm watching tv about Kennedy, then next I actually see a real-live murder right there on the screen. I was still in elementary school.