Dec 4, 2014 | Events
Franco Nuschese hosted Clint Hill on the 50th anniversary of a weekend that changed the world. The #1 New York Times Best selling authors, of Mrs. Kennedy and Me, Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin presented their latest book, Five Days in November, in an intimate conversation, along with rarely seen slides and videos. Clint Hill will forever be remembered as the Secret Service agent who jumped on the back of the presidential limousine in Dallas, as shots were being fired in Dealey Plaza, in an effort to shield President John F. Kennedy and Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy. “On November 22, 1963, three shots were fired in Dealey Plaza and the world stopped for four days,” writes Hill. “It was the end of the age of innocence.” Five Days in November is an historic account of the trip to Texas by President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline in 1963 and the heartwrenching days that followed, as America united in grief. Those five days, November 21 – 25 are indelibly marked in the hearts and minds of all people old enough to have lived through that period. For Hill, who was by Jacqueline Kennedy’s side through it all, it was the defining period of his life. A story that has taken Hill fifty years to tell, it is a work of personal and historical scope. Clint Hill commemorates the 50th anniversary of the tragedy with this stunning book containing more than 150 photos, each accompanied by Hill’s incomparable insider account of those terrible days. With poignant narration accompanying rarely seen images, we witness three-year-old John Kennedy Jr.’s pleas to come...