Clint Hill, the former Secret Service agent who shielded first lady Jacqueline Kennedy from gunfire during the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, has died, the agency said Monday.

Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who ran into the line of fire to shield President John F. Kennedy and the first lady in Dallas on November 22, 1963, died Friday. He was 93 years old.

Clint Hill, the US secret service agent who leapt onto the back of John F Kennedy’s limousine after the president was shot, has died aged 93. Mr Hill, who was forced to retire early because he remained haunted by memories of the assassination,