Five Days in November - Softcover

Hill, Clint

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1476731500 ISBN 13: 9781476731506

Publisher: Gallery Books, 2014

Synopsis

Don't miss the "New York Times" bestseller "Five Days in November," where Secret Service agent Clint Hill tells the stories behind the iconic images of those five infamous, tragic days surrounding JFK's assassination, published for the 50th anniversary of his death. On November 22, 1963, three shots were fired in Dallas, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world stopped for four days. For an entire generation, it was the end of an age of innocence. That evening, a photo ran on the front pages of newspapers across the world, showing a Secret Service agent jumping on the back of the presidential limousine in a desperate attempt to protect the President and Mrs. Kennedy. That agent was Clint Hill. Now Secret Service Agent Clint Hill commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the tragedy with this stunning book containing more than 150 photos, each accompanied by Hill's incomparable insider account of those terrible days. With poignant narration accompanying rarely seen images, we witness three-year-old John Kennedy Jr.'s pleas to come to Texas with his parents and the rapturous crowds of mixed ages and races that greeted the Kennedys at every stop in Texas. We stand beside a shaken Lyndon Johnson as he is hurriedly sworn in as the new president. We experience the first lady's steely courage when she insists on walking through the streets of Washington, DC, in her husband's funeral procession. A story that has taken Clint Hill fifty years to tell, this is a work of personal and historical scope. Besides the unbearable grief of a nation and the monumental consequences of the event, the death of JFK was a personal blow to a man sworn to protect the first family, and who knew, from the moment the shots rang out in Dallas, that nothing would ever be the same.

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Review:

"Chronology, photographs and personal knowledge combine to make a memorable commemorative presentation."--Kirkus

"Talk about being unable to put a book down; I was enthralled with this memoir from start to finish."--Liz Smith on Mrs. Kennedy and Me

"With clear and honest prose free of salaciousness and gossip, Hill (ably assisted by McCubbin) evokes not only a personality both beautiful and brilliant, but also a time when the White House was filled with youth and promise. Of the many words written about Jacqueline Kennedy, these are among the best."--Kirkus starred review of Mrs Kennedy and Me

"[Mrs. Kennedy and Me] conveys a sense of honesty and proves to be an insightful and lovingly penetrating portrait of the Jacqueline Kennedy that Hill came to know."--USA Today (3 1/2 stars)

"A riveting, stunning narrative...among hundreds of books about the assassination, this is the most compelling because Hill lived it."--Herald-Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1476731500
• ISBN 13: 9781476731506
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256