5 Days in November

On November 22, 1963, three photographs had been fired in Dallas, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world stopped for 4 days. For a whole technology, it was the top of an age of innocence.

That night, a photograph ran on the entrance pages of newspapers internationally, displaying a Secret Service agent leaping on the again of the presidential limousine in a determined try to guard the President and Mrs. Kennedy. That agent was Clint Hill.

Now Secret Service Agent Clint Hill commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the tragedy with this beautiful e-book containing greater than 150 images, every accompanied by Hill’s incomparable insider account of these horrible days. With poignant narration accompanying not often seen photographs, we witness three-year-old John Kennedy Jr.’s pleas to return to Texas together with his mother and father and the rapturous crowds of combined ages and races that greeted the Kennedys at each cease in Texas. We stand beside a shaken Lyndon Johnson as he’s hurriedly sworn in as the brand new president. We expertise the primary woman’s steely braveness when she insists on strolling by the streets of Washington, DC, in her husband’s funeral procession.

A narrative that has taken Clint Hill fifty years to inform, it is a work of non-public and historic scope. Apart from the insufferable grief of a nation and the monumental penalties of the occasion, the demise of JFK was a private blow to a person sworn to guard the primary household, and who knew, from the second the photographs rang out in Dallas, that nothing would ever be the identical.