According to the Warren Commission's findings, there were no bodyguards stationed on the bumper that day because: Hill grabbed a small handrail on the left rear of the trunk, normally used by bodyguards to stabilize themselves while standing on small platforms on the rear bumper. Hill, along with Secret Service agents Kellerman, Greer, and Rufus Youngblood, provided testimony to the Warren Commission in Washington, D.C. Hill pushed her back into the car and covered her and the fatally wounded president with his body. Kennedy climbed out of the back seat toward the trunk. In the moments immediately after the fatal shots, Mrs. He climbed from the rear bumper, crawling over the trunk to the back seat where the president and First Lady were located. After the second shot, Hill began running to overtake the moving car in front of him, but the third shot had hit Kennedy in the head by the time that he arrived at the limousine. Hill was riding on the left front running board of the Secret Service car immediately behind the presidential limousine. The Kennedys were in the rear seat of the car, the governor of Texas, John Connally, and his wife, Nellie Connally, were in the middle row, Secret Service agent William Greer was driving and the Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Roy Kellerman, was also in the front row.Ĭlint Hill jumping on the presidential limousine, as captured in the Zapruder film Kennedy were riding in an open limousine containing three rows of seats. President Kennedy was assassinated on Novemin Dallas, Texas, during a motorcade through the city, en route to a luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart. Kennedy was elected president of the United States, Hill was assigned to protect the First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy.Īssassination of President Kennedy In 1958, Hill served on the detail for President Dwight D. After his military service, Hill joined the Secret Service and was assigned to the Denver office. After college, Hill joined the army and became a Counterintelligence (CI) Special Agent, serving until 1957. He attended Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, where he played football, basketball, and baseball, studied history, and graduated in 1954. Hill's new family took him to Washburn, where he eventually graduated from Washburn High School. Originally named Haugen, the family later changed its name to the English version of the name Haugen means "the hill" in Norwegian. After 3 months" he was adopted by another Norwegian family, Chris and Jennie Hill of Fargo. "At 17 days old his Mother, (separated from his Father), had him baptized and she then placed him in the North Dakota Children's Home in Fargo. His birth parents homesteaded near Roseglen. Hill was born in Larimore, North Dakota, to a Norwegian mother, Alma Pettersen. Since the death of Nellie Connally in September 2006, Hill is the last surviving person who was in the presidential limousine that day. This action was documented in the Zapruder film. ĭuring the assassination, Hill ran from the Secret Service followup car, behind the presidential limousine, leaped onto the back of it and shielded Jacqueline Kennedy and the stricken president with his body as the car raced to Parkland Memorial Hospital. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Hill is best known for his act of bravery while in the presidential motorcade on Novemwhen United States President John F. Secret Service agent who served under five United States presidents, from Dwight D. Hill (born January 4, 1932) is a former U.S.
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