2024-11-12
35 分钟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, a former U.S. Secret Service agent on duty the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. 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. Now at 92 years old, Hill tells 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. Listen to new episodes of "60 Minutes: A Second Look" every Tuesday, wherever you get your podcasts. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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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.