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BELVEDERE, Calif. – Larimore, North Dakota native, Concordia College graduate and former Secret Service agent Clint Hill, who sprang to First Lady Jackie Kennedy’s side after the fatal shot that killed her husband, President John F. Kennedy, has died at age 93.
He died at his home in Belvedere, California on Friday according to his wife, Lisa McCubbin Hill. She told the Washington Post he had congestive heart failure and other ailments.
Hill dove on top of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jackie Kennedy after he was shot in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963. In an interview with 60 minutes over a decade later, he said he would have been fine taking the bullet and dying for Kennedy.
Hill received North Dakota’s highest civilian honor, the Theodore Roosevelt Roughrider Award, in 2018.
