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Secret Service agent, North Dakota native Clint Hill dies at 93 • North Dakota Monitor [1]
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Date: 2025-02
Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent from North Dakota known for leaping onto the back of the presidential limousine in the midst of the John F. Kennedy assassination, has died. He was 93.
Hill was born in Larimore and grew up and graduated from high school in Washburn. He served in the U.S. Secret Service from 1958 to 1975, protecting presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
“Clint Hill embodied the qualities of courage, service and sacrifice. His loyalty to his country and his devotion to his solemn duty to protect the president continues to inspire us to this day,” North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong said in a statement Monday. “North Dakota has lost a legendary native son.”
Hill was most famous for shielding President Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy with his body during the assassination of the president in 1963. But he carried with him guilt and remorse for not being able to do more to protect the president, leading to post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.
Hill was recognized in 2018 with the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award, North Dakota’s highest civilian honor. During an award ceremony, which Hill requested be held in Washburn, Hill urged people who have experienced trauma to find someone to talk to.
Then-Gov. Doug Burgum commended Hill for his bravery in talking publicly about his mental health, as well as his actions as a Secret Service agent.
Hill co-authored four books, “Mrs. Kennedy and Me,” which became a No. 1 New York Times bestseller, “Five Days in November,” “Five Presidents” and “My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy,” with journalist Lisa McCubbin, who became his wife in 2021.
Throughout his life, Hill continued to be an ambassador for North Dakota. In “Five Presidents,” Hill describes how he came to his sister’s farm near McCanna after his Secret Service career ended.
“I had been around the world multiple times and met more kings and queens and princes and presidents than I could remember, but nowhere did I feel more at home than on a farm in North Dakota,” Hill wrote.
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