THE SECRET SERVICE. An elite team of men who share a single
mission: to protect the president of the United States. On November
22, 1963, these men failed--and a country would never be the same.
Now, for the first time, a member of JFK's Secret Service detail
reveals the inside story of the assassination, the weeks and days
that led to it and its heartrending aftermath. This extraordinary
book is a moving, intimate portrait of dedication, courage, and
loss.
Drawing on the memories of his fellow agents, Jerry Blaine captures
the energetic, crowd-loving young president, who banned agents from
his car and often plunged into raucous crowds with little warning.
He describes the careful planning that went into JFK's Texas swing,
the worries and concerns that agents, working long hours with
little food or rest, had during the trip. And he describes the
intensely private first lady making her first-ever political
appearance with her husband, just months after losing a newborn
baby.
Here are vivid scenes that could come only from inside the Kennedy
detail: JFK's last words to his tearful son when he left Washington
for the last time; how a sudden change of weather led to the choice
of the open-air convertible limousine that day; Mrs. Kennedy
standing blood-soaked outside a Dallas hospital room; the sudden
interruption of six-year-old Caroline's long-anticipated sleepover
with a friend at home; the exhausted team of agents immediately
reacting to the president's death with a shift to LBJ and other key
governmental figures; the agents' dismay at Jackie's decision to
walk openly from the White House to St. Matthew's Cathedral at the
state funeral.
Most of all, this is a look into the lives of men who devoted their
entire beings to protecting the presidential family: the stress of
the secrecy they kept, the emotional bonds that developed, the
terrible impact on agents' psyches and families, and their
astonishment at the country's obsession with far-fetched conspiracy
theories and finger-pointing. A book fifty years in coming, "The
Kennedy Detail "is a portrait of incredible camaraderie and
incredible heartbreak--a true, must-read story of heroism in its
most complex and human form.
***
A medic burst out of the trauma room, and instinctively Clint Hill
took a step toward Mrs. Kennedy. "He's still breathing," the man
said as he rushed past. Mrs. Kennedy stood up. "Do you mean he may
live?" she asked.
No one answered.
Kellerman handed the phone back to Hill and rushed back into the
trauma room.
"Clint, what happened?" Jerry Behn asked earnestly.
"Shots fired during the motorcade," Clint said as he kept an eye on
Mrs. Kennedy across the hall. "It all happened so fast. We were
five minutes away from the Trade Mart. . . . The situation is
critical. Jerry, prepare for the worst. . . ."
The operator cut into the line, "Attorney General Robert Kennedy
wants to talk to Agent Hill."
"What's going on down there? " Bobby Kennedy demanded.
"Shots fired during the motorcade," Clint repeated. "The president
is very seriously injured. They're working on him now. Governor
Connally was hit too."
"Well, what do you mean, seriously injured? How serious?"
Clint swallowed hard. It was all he could do to keep it together.
"It's as bad as it can get."
--From "The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break
Their Silence"
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