Previously, Lisa was a television news anchor, reporter, and talk-radio host. Kennedy. She met Clint Hill while writing her first book, The Kennedy Detail: JFK’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence (with Gerald Blaine).

Kennedy and Me Five Days in November Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford and My Travels with Mrs. She is the author of the acclaimed biography Betty Ford: First Lady Women’s Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer and coauthor (with Clint Hill) of the New York Times bestsellers Mrs. Lisa McCubbin Hill is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author. Hill married coauthor Lisa McCubbin in 2021. Starting out as a Special Agent, Clint Hill served as Agent in Charge of the First Lady Detail, the Vice Presidential Protective Division, the Presidential Protective Division, and when he was retired in 1975, he was Assistant Director responsible for all protective activity. For his courage and swift actions that day, Hill received the nation’s highest civilian award for bravery. A United States Secret Service Agent from 1958 to 1975, Clint Hill was assigned to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and was in the motorcade in Dallas on November 22, 1963, when President John F. This is the story, told for the first time, of the man who perhaps held her together.Ĭlint Hill is the New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Kennedy’s strength, class, and dignity over those tragic four days in November 1963 held the country together. Sprawled on the trunk of the car as it sped away from Dealey Plaza, Hill clung to the sides of the car, his feet wedged in so his body was as high as possible.Ĭlint Hill jumped on the car too late to save the president, but all he knew after that first shot was that if more shots were coming, the bullets had to hit him instead of the First Lady. Kennedy’s lap in the back seat of the limousine, his eyes fixed, blood splattered all over the back of the car, Mrs.

Kennedy, the one vivid image that never leaves Clint Hill’s mind is that of President Kennedy’s head lying on Mrs. Three and a half months later, the unthinkable happened.įorty-seven years after the assassination of President John F. on November 25, 1960, as well as for the birth and sudden death of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy on August 8, 1963. Kennedy’s side for some of the happiest moments as well as the darkest. The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir by Clint Hill that Kirkus Reviews called “clear and honest prose free from salaciousness and gossip,” Jackie Kennedy’s personal Secret Service agent details his very close relationship with the First Lady during the four years leading up to and following President John F.

Mrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill