2024-11-12
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I was very moved when I interviewed Clint Hill.
He started to cry.
And I confess that I got tears, too.
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 John F.
Kennedy in Dallas that dreadful day in 1963.
It's a day that's been recalled a lot lately in the aftermath of the assassination attempts on former President Donald Trump.
This is Mike Wallace looking back on his interview with Clint Hill during an anniversary special for 60 Minutes in 1993.
He Foolishly, I think, I think he genuinely believed that if he had moved a split second sooner, he could have saved the life of Jack Kennedy and he couldn't have.
But he will take it, that sense of guilt, wrongly.
He will take it to his grave.
There's no doubt about it.
Hill's admission seemed to surprise Wallace, coming during a wide ranging interview which was originally broadcast in 1975, more than a decade after the assassination.
Had I turned in a different direction, I'd have made it.
That was my fault.
Oh.
No one has ever suggested that for an instant.
All that you did was show great bravery and great presence of mind.
Even if you did not know Clinthill's name at the time, you likely did know that photo of him climbing on the back of President Kennedy's limousine in Dallas, scrambling to save the life of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.