A Secret Service agent, he leaped onto the president’s limousine in Dallas in 1963 and was credited with saving the first lady’s life. But he was haunted by his inability to save her husband.

Clint Hill, who was seen in film footage of the assassination scrambling across the back of the presidential limousine, died at his home. He was 93.

Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who leaped onto the back of President John F. Kennedy’s limousine after the president was shot, then was forced to retire early because he remained haunted by memories of the assassination,

Secret Service agent Clint Hill was trailing the presidential motorcade in Dallas, Texas, when shots were fired and he jumped onto the back of the car to protect President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jaqueline Kennedy.