JFK Files: What Agent Clint Hill Told the Warren Commission

Agent Clint Hill was the only Secret Service man who reached President Kennedy's car on November 22, 1963. Eight days later he wrote it down; in March 1964 he said it under oath. One car back, on the left front running board of the follow-up car, Hill heard a crack and ran. His hand reached the limousine as the fatal shot struck. This case file stays with that run and with what the records say about it: Hill's written report of November 30, 1963, his testimony before Arlen Specter and the Warren Commission on March 9, 1964, and the testimony of the other men in the cars — driver William Greer, Roy Kellerman, Rufus Youngblood in the Vice President's car, and Secret Service Chief James Rowley. The night before, in Fort Worth: nine off-duty agents at the Press Club at midnight or after, seven of them on to the Cellar, one until five in the morning, four of them in the follow-up car in Dallas — and what the Warren Report concluded about it, in its own words. Why no agents rode the rear steps of the limousine. And what Hill answered when Specter asked how long it took him to reach the car. Then the later record: the House Select Committee's 1979 finding on the Secret Service, the protection survey reports destroyed in January 1995 and reported by the Review Board in 1998, the releases of 2017 and after — and the one question Hill carried for the rest of his life. About the host: the man speaking to you from the desk was generated by an AI model, face, gestures and voice, and the voice you hear narrating and the score came out of the same kind of tools. He is not an agent, not a historian and not a witness, and he does not speak for Clint Hill, for the Secret Service or for anyone else in this file. Hill's own words come only from his report, his sworn testimony and his published interviews as the record describes them; nothing is quoted from his books or from the 1975 broadcast. Everything else on screen is genuine: Warren Commission documents and Secret Service reports from the U.S. National Archives, Secret Service files from the FBI Vault, White House and press photographs of November 1963 from Wikimedia Commons and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, National Park Service photographs, and Universal Newsreel film of November 24, 1963 from the Internet Archive. The captions, the document highlights, the camera moves across the stills and the sound effects are our own work. Records and images: U.S. National Archives (Warren Commission Documents, Parkland witness files, Key Persons files), FBI Vault, Wikimedia Commons, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, National Park Service NPGallery, Internet Archive (Universal Newsreel). Portrait of Clint Hill, 2016, by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0. Do you think that one second would have mattered? Leave your verdict in the comments below. Next case file: JFK Files: What Jack Ruby Really Told the Warren Commission Follow the next case:    / @unsolvedamericana   Case file (0:00) The Assassination: Clint Hill Acts in Dallas (2:52) Fort Worth: The Night Before and Agents' Timeline (3:58) The Secret Service’s Off-Duty Hours and Regulation Breach (6:55) Testimony: What Hill and Other Agents Told the Warren Commission (9:32) How Later Investigations Judged the Secret Service’s Actions Records and images: DealeyPlazaAerial — Walloon, CC BY-SA 3.0; Dealey Plaza (1969) — James G. Howes, Attribution; Dallas July 2015 06 (triple underpass and grassy knoll) — Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0; 2017 Dealey Plaza 05 — Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0; Dallas July 2015 02 (Kennedy assassination site) — Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0; DFW Texas 1993 04 — Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 4.0; DFW Texas 1993 01 — Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 4.0; Dallas Elm Street — Original picture taken by Nathan Stringer, CC BY-SA 3.0; DFW Texas 1993 05 — Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 4.0; Dallas Elm Street triple underpass — MarkTSnow, CC BY-SA 4.0; Hickey-ar-15 jfk — non indentifié, CC BY-SA 4.0; 2017 Dealey Plaza 03 — Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0; Clint Hill 2016 — Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0; Dallas,Texas.USA. - panoramio — Roman Eugeniusz, CC BY-SA 3.0; 2017 Dealey Plaza 02 — Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0; 2011-03 Dallas 03 — Gareth Wyn Jones, CC BY-SA 4.0; X in Road Marks Where Fatal Shot Hit President Kennedy… — Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0; Dallas July 2015 03 (Kennedy memorial) — Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0; Dealey Mid Morning — SarahCate Philipson, CC BY-SA 3.0; Dallas Daley Plaza — Grosse, CC BY-SA 3.0; Dealey Plaza Dallas 5 — Fredlyfish4, CC BY-SA 3.0; 2017 Dealey Plaza 04 — Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0; DealeyPlazaAbove — Father of Nehrams2020, CC BY-SA 3.0; Dealey Plaza — ArtBrom, CC BY-SA 2.0. (Wikimedia Commons) #JFKFiles #ClintHill #WarrenCommission