The first US Secret Service agent to reach the wounded President John F.Kennedy following the shooting has revealed that the First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy had refused to loosen her hold on her husband despite repeated requests.
The now 82-year old Clint Hill, who has recorded his memories in a new book, ”Five Days in November”, was the only Secret Service agent who managed to reach the wound when two shots were fired at the President”s motorcade on November 22, 1963.
According to the CBS News, Hill said that after they got the then-Texas governor John Connally, who was accompanying Kennedy in the car, into an ambulance, they tried to help the president but was deterred by the First Lady, who had a hold on her husband and refused to let him go. After repeated pleas, Hill said that he then realised Jacqueline did not want anyone to see the condition the president was in as ”it was horrible”, following which he took off his coat and covered Kennedy”s head and upper back. Hill added that only then the First Lady let go of her husband. (ANI)