# Meeting one of JFK's Secret Service agents

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meeting-one-of-jfks-secret-service-agents/693745>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 22, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meeting-one-of-jfks-secret-service-agents/693745 "2014-07-22T16:04:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meeting-one-of-jfks-secret-service-agents/693745/21 "2014-08-04T09:57:31Z")

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Excellent read- thanks.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meeting-one-of-jfks-secret-service-agents/693745/22 "2014-08-04T18:32:55Z")

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> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#):
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> Was he the guy that was interviewed by Mike Wallace many years later, and said something like “If I had just been a few seconds quicker, just a second or two, I could’ve saved him. I could’ve blocked the bullet.” and started crying? Mike Wallace told him that wasn’t possible, that he couldn’t have done anything, but it didn’t make the guy feel less guilty.
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> Or was that someone else?

I think that might’ve been Clint Hill (on whom Clint Eastwood’s character in _In the Line of Fire_ was partially based).

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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meeting-one-of-jfks-secret-service-agents/693745/23 "2014-08-04T18:42:07Z")

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Same here, I remember in Clint’s interview he kinda beating himself up, undeservedly so.

Great story, **EH** , thanks.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meeting-one-of-jfks-secret-service-agents/693745/24 "2023-09-11T20:23:23Z")

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Bumped.

Landis now has a book coming out with an interesting but, to me, implausible revelation:

[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/secret-service-agent-who-was-with-jfk-raises-new-questions-about-assassination/ar-AA1guGNS](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/secret-service-agent-who-was-with-jfk-raises-new-questions-about-assassination/ar-AA1guGNS)

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meeting-one-of-jfks-secret-service-agents/693745/25 "2023-09-14T13:35:33Z")

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A good overview of the ongoing controversy:

> **[Why we're still learning new things about the JFK assassination | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/13/politics/kennedy-assassination-what-matters/index.html)**
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> It’s hard to believe there’s a new eyewitness account from a Secret Service agent who was right there at the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

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