We experience the first lady’s steely courage when she insists on walking through the streets of Washington, DC, in her husband’s funeral procession.Ī story that has taken Clint Hill fifty years to tell, this is a work of personal and historical scope. We stand beside a shaken Lyndon Johnson as he is hurriedly sworn in as the new president. With poignant narration accompanying rarely seen images, we witness three-year-old John Kennedy Jr.’s pleas to come to Texas with his parents and the rapturous crowds of mixed ages and races that greeted the Kennedys at every stop in Texas. Now Secret Service Agent Clint Hill commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the tragedy with this stunning book containing more than 150 photos, each accompanied by Hill’s incomparable insider account of those terrible days. That evening, a photo ran on the front pages of newspapers across the world, showing a Secret Service agent jumping on the back of the presidential limousine in a desperate attempt to protect the President and Mrs. For an entire generation, it was the end of an age of innocence. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world stopped for four days. On November 22, 1963, three shots were fired in Dallas, President John F. Don’t miss the New York Times bestseller Five Days in November, where Secret Service agent Clint Hill tells the stories behind the iconic images of those five infamous, tragic days surrounding JFK’s assassination, published for the 50th anniversary of his death.
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