Remembering Clint Hill: Secret Service Agent #9

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Clint Hill, a former U.S. Secret Service agent on duty the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, has died at age 93. Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace once said that, in all his years as a journalist, very few interviews stayed with him like his time with Clint Hill. During that interview, Hill stunned Wallace -- and the nation -- by admitting he felt responsible for the president's death. Hill would later say it was the first time he had ever spoken publicly about that day, and that his emotional reaction surprised even him. Hill told "60 Minutes: A Second Look" why he spoke so candidly for an audience of millions, and how that interview with Mike Wallace may have changed the course of his life. This episode of "60 Minutes: A Second Look" originally released in October 2024. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.9	I was very moved when I interviewed Clint Hill.
0:37.3	He started to cry and I confess that I got tears, too.
0:42.3	Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace once said in all of his career as a journalist, very few people made an impression on him like Clint Hill, a former Secret Service agent who was with President
0:55.4	John F. Kennedy in Dallas, that dreadful day in 1963.
1:00.9	It's a day that's been recalled a lot lately in the aftermath of the assassination attempts
1:05.3	on former President Donald Trump.
1:07.9	This is Mike Wallace looking back on his interview with Clint Hill during an anniversary
1:12.2	special for 60 Minutes in 1993.
1:16.2	He foolishly, I think. I think he genuinely believed that if he had moved a split second
1:22.9	sooner, he could have saved the life of Jack Kennedy, and he couldn't have.
1:30.6	But he will take it, that sense of guilt.
1:35.1	Wrongly, he will take it to his grave.
1:36.3	There's no doubt about it.
1:41.0	Hill's admission seemed to surprise Wallace, coming during a wide-ranging interview,
1:43.9	which was originally broadcast in 1975, more than a decade after the assassination.
1:47.4	Had I turned in a different direction?
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