Clint Hill scrambled to protect Kennedy and his young wife, Jacqueline, as they enjoyed an open motorcade tour through Dallas.

Clint Hill, who has died aged 93, was an American Secret Service agent who served as a White House bodyguard under five presidents, from Eisenhower to Ford; he was best known, however, as the man in a grainy piece of home-movie footage seen leaping on to the back of the presidential limousine after John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas,

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is paying tribute to Clint Hill, the secret service agent who famously jumped onto President Kennedy’s motorcade after the president was shot and killed in Dallas in 1963.

Clint Hill, who was seen in film footage of the assassination scrambling across the back of the presidential limousine, died at his home. He was 93.

The Secret Service agent who leaped onto the back of President John F. Kennedy's limousine after the president was shot has died. Clint Hill was 93.

“We were soulmates.” Clint Hill also became a speaker and gave interviews about his experience in Dallas. In 2018, he was given the state of North Dakota’s highest civilian honor, the ...

I was the only one who had a chance to do anything,” Clint Hill said. “The way everything developed, the way all the other agents were positioned, I was the only one who had a chance to get to the car and do anything.

Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who leaped onto the back of President John F. Kennedy’s limousine after the president was shot, then was forced to retire early because he remained haunted by memories of the assassination, has died. He was 93.

Clint Hill, a Secret Service agent who jumped onto the back of John F. Kennedy's limousine after the president was shot, has died. He was 93 years old.

BELVEDERE, Calif. (AP) — Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who leapt onto the back of President John F. Kennedy’s limousine after the president was shot, then was forced to retire early because he remained haunted by memories of the assassination, died Friday. He was 93.