Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who ran into the line of fire to shield President John F. Kennedy and the first lady in Dallas on November 22, 1963, died

Clint Hill scrambled to protect Kennedy and his young wife, Jacqueline, as they enjoyed an open motorcade tour through Dallas.

Secret Service agent from North Dakota, Concordia College carried the Kennedy assassination with him for decades after fateful day in Dallas

Clint Hill, who has died aged 93, was an American Secret Service agent who served as a White House bodyguard under five presidents, from Eisenhower to Ford; he was best known, however, as the man in a grainy piece of home-movie footage seen leaping on to the back of the presidential limousine after John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas,

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is paying tribute to Clint Hill, the secret service agent who famously jumped onto President Kennedy’s motorcade after the president was shot and killed in Dallas in 1963.

Mr. Hill dove onto the presidential limo in a heroic attempt to save President John F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in Dallas in 1963.

Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who risked his life on Nov. 22, 1963, in an attempt to protect then-President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, died on Feb. 21 at the age of 93.

I was the only one who had a chance to do anything,” Clint Hill said. “The way everything developed, the way all the other agents were positioned, I was the only one who had a chance to get to the car and do anything.