It has been a reluctant journey, but now, despite how painful it is, still, to relive those days, I understand that my memories are important to history. Recently, however, I have come to realize that the grief I’ve held inside for half a century is shared by nearly everyone who was alive at that time, and that those days marked a defining period not just for me but for all of us. I was thrust onto the pages of history and have spent the majority of my life keeping silent about what I witnessed. As fate would have it, the photos snapped by journalists, witnesses, and bystanders during those five days are like the scrapbook that is in my mind. In the blink of an eye, everything changed, and in the fifty years since, those days remain the defining period of my life. For me, there were five days in November 1963, when I was thirty-one years old, that are seared into my mind and soul. It makes no difference how old you are, or what you have experienced, there are times in your life that affect you so deeply that, no matter what you do, no matter how hard you try to erase them, your mind will never let the memories fade. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Besides the unbearable grief of a nation and the monumental consequences of the event, the death of JFK was a personal blow to a man sworn to protect the first family, and who knew, from the moment the shots rang out in Dallas, that nothing would ever be the same. 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.

Five Days in November by Clint Hill