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slferg's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
tense
medium-paced
5.0
Covers five days beginning with the assassination of President Kennedy to his burial. By Jacqueline’s assigned secret service agent.
zarco_j's review against another edition
4.0
Interesting and insightful and full of snippets that aren't generally known.
cherjbb_55's review against another edition
5.0
Fascinating! An important time in our country's history and fortunate that Mr. Hill has shared his memories of that time with us
jayfr's review against another edition
4.0
Interesting and insightful and full of snippets that aren't generally known.
librariabillie's review against another edition
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
I read the 60th anniversary edition, published in 2023, with additional text and photos. This is an amazing book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Violence
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
hookforbooks's review against another edition
5.0
Read on the heels of Mrs. Kennedy and Me. Some repetition, but I am still fascinated by Hill’s side of events and the accompanying pictures.
judyward's review against another edition
4.0
I, like so many other Americans, can remember with amazing clarity where I was when I learned that President Kennedy had been assassinated. Former Secret Service Agent Clint Hill, assigned to protect the First Lady, has written a book about the assassination and the events of that weekend that followed from a perspective that only he has. While I thought that I knew a lot about these events, in fact, I stood in line for hours to view the casket in the Capitol and watched the funeral procession move through the streets of Washington, D.C., I found that there was much that I didn't know. I ended up reading this book in one evening and was surprised at the strength of the emotions that it evoked. Recommended for anyone wanted to read a concise and moving account of those dark days in November fifty years ago.
culbs1138's review against another edition
5.0
This book provides a very detailed, sometimes minute-by-minute, account of that fateful trip to Dallas with President and Mrs. Kennedy. Despite knowing the outcome, it's difficult to not feel your heart racing in the seconds leading up to the assassination or the soul crushing events of the hours that followed it.
tomaind's review against another edition
5.0
This tragic day in America's history happened almost 5 years before I was born. Over the years, I have heard many stories of the assassination. This being a first person account of that fateful trip to Texas, told by Jackie Kennedy's Secret Serviceman, there were so many details I had never heard before. Starting with the day they board Airforce One to fly to Texas, this book takes us through the next five days, which ends with the day JFK is laid to rest in Arlington Cemetery. There are so many details and pictures, throughout the book, that show the happy moments, sadness and grief of those five days. Written 50 years after the assassination, Clint Hill's memory shared this time like no one ever has done before. He provides an intimate and more detailed look at some of those famous moments everyone has heard about or seen images of many times: Jackie's reaction when her husband is shot and she tries to climb out the back of the moving car, aboard Airforce One as Jackie stands by in her blood splattered dress while LBJ is sworn in as the new President and JFK Jr., on his third birthday, saluting his father's coffin. Mr. Black shares his memories and the guilt he felt for not being able to save the President. A very emotional read that brought me to tears several times.